Baghdad Embassy Is Called A Fire Risk 'Serious' Problems Were Ignored, Says State Dept. Official ... finger-pointing over fire safety is a microcosm of the suspicion that hangs over the troubled project, which is built on acreage almost four times the size of the Pentagon. ... First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting, the firm in charge of building the embassy compound ... ... The Justice Department probe is said to focus on James L. Golden, a contract employee who oversaw the project, and Mary M. French, the project coordinator based in Baghdad ... Both Golden and French were viewed by many at State as resistant to questions, and both have left the project in recent weeks ... In an e-mail exchange obtained by The Washington Post, French insisted that First Kuwaiti's fire-safety consultant not send reports and data to Washington, even after the consultant received a request on Dec. 12 from William G. Miner, the State Department's director of engineering ... "The data/report will come thru my office," French instructed the consultant, who worked for Baltimore-based Hughes Associates. "It should not be sent directly to Mr. Miner." Golden did not respond to e-mails, and French declined to comment.