American corporations doing business overseas are subject to certain limitations, like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  And then, maybe restrictions like enabling mind-bogglingly sick sexual abuse of little boys.  Via  Randazza and  Bennett, courtesy of Wikileaks, security contractor DynCorp provides some insight into how it networks and  genuinely engages :

Bacha boys are eight- to 15-years-old. They put on make-up, tie bells to their feet and slip into scanty women’s clothing, and then, to the whine of a harmonium and wailing vocals, they dance seductively to smoky roomfuls of leering older men.

After the show is over, their services are auctioned off to the highest bidder, who will sometimes purchase a boy outright. And by services, we mean anal sex: The State Department has called bacha bazi a “widespread, culturally accepted form of male rape.”

DynCorp, whose revenues are almost entirely paid by Uncle Sam, was contracted to recruit and train Afghanis to be police.  What better way to draw the right sort of folks than throw a party?  And obviously, half their training would already be accomplished with the proper inducement.

According to the cable published by the  Guardian UK, the Minister of the Interior, Hanif Atmar, needed the United States’ help in quashing any reporting of these bacha bazi parties.  It just wouldn’t look good.

Beyond remedial actions taken, we still hope the matter will not be blown out of proportion, an outcome which would not be good for either the U.S. or Afghanistan. A widely-anticipated newspaper article on the Kunduz scandal has not appeared but, if there is too much noise that may prompt the journalist to publish.

Certainly the anal rape of young boys at a party thrown by an American contractor to recruit Afghan police would reflect poorly on somebody.  Then again, the concealment of this happening reflects poorly on everybody, but only once it becomes publicly known. 

Atmar said he insisted the journalist be told that publication would endanger lives. His request was that the U.S. quash the article and release of the video. Amb Mussomeli responded that going to the journalist would give her the sense that there is a more terrible story to report. Atmar then disclosed the arrest of two Afghan National Police (ANP) and nine other Afghans (including RTC language assistants) as part of an MoI investigation into Afghan “facilitators” of the event. The crime he was pursuing was “purchasing a service from a child,” which in Afghanistan is illegal under both Sharia law and the civil code, and against the ANP Code of Conduct for police officers who might be involved. He said he would use the civil code and that, in this case, the institution of the ANP will be protected, but he worried about the image of foreign mentors.

As noted, this conduct violates both Sharia law as well as the Afghan civil code.  Nor, it appears, is it universally considered an acceptable thing to do.  But the fact remains that good ol’ DynCorp, whose base of business operations in the United States is in Dallas/Fort Worth, threw a little party and then needed some political muscle to cover it up.  DynCorp  denies any impropriety and says it’s all a big misunderstanding.

According to a DynCorp’s VP of communications, Ashley Vanarsdall Burke,

the company has beefed up its ethics in many ways including enhancing their code of ethics and business conduct; reviewing, revising and strengthening the company’s business practices; hiring a chief compliance officer; and setting up a 24-hour hotline for whistleblowers and a training program that focuses “specifically on behaviors that support successful teams.”

Burke granted that no “company can guarantee that their employees will behave perfectly at all times, under all conditions,” but said that the company can guarantee that expectations will be clearly defined, employees will be trained to adhere to those expectations, and people will be held accountable. “We will also act swiftly and consistently if shortcomings are identified,” which they did do in the wake of this traditional dance gone apparently awry.

So maybe then they won’t have to ask the Afghan ministry of the interior or the State Department to cover it up under the guise that revealing parties where little boys are anally raped would “endanger lives” if disclosed? 

But you probably know all this, having heard all about it in the big exposé in the newspapers and on TV.

Update:  From Mike Cernovich, here’s the Frontline program about the bacha bazi, the dancing boys of Afghanisten .