Not long ago we told you about the IPOA, the lobbying organization and trade group for military contractors in Washington, D.C. A week ago Monday IPOA (aka the International Peace Operations Association) had their annual summit in Washington. Blackwater, which recently terminated its membership in the outfit in the face of an IPOA ethics investigation (one of the first, apparently), wasn't there. But pretty much everyone else from the private military contractor world was, and TPM's Spencer Ackerman was there to ask them a few questions and see what was up ...

(My favorite moment comes in Spencer's interview with IPOA President Doug Brooks, when Brooks notes that IPOA can only do so much on the enforcement front since they "can't throw someone in a dungeon or something like that." Interesting choice of examples.)

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