Print: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?
2009-10-22 15:46:00 [From The Nation] Where is the Defund Blackwater Act? by JEREMY SCAHILL Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to helping poor and working-class people. Their campaign has gained bipartisan legislative support in the form of the Defund ACORN Act of 2009, which has now passed the House and Senate. ...
By: News for Greens
Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program
2009-08-30 21:09:00 Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program WASHINGTON (AP) – When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater’s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of ...
By: TexasFred's
NYT: Blackwater tied to CIA death plot
2009-08-20 23:59:00 NYT: Blackwater tied to CIA death plot WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. Executives from Blackwater, which has generated controversy because of ...
By: TexasFred's
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
2009-08-05 15:52:00 [From The Nation] by JEREMY SCAHILL August 4, 2009 Erik Prince A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may ...
By: News for Greens
President Obama Tells C-Span We?re Out Of Money Then Promises To Expand The
2009-05-24 03:39:00 Amen To VA Expansion But How Are We Going To Pay For It? We’re out of money laments President Barack Hussein Obama during a C-Span interview(Drudge). Next day, he says America doesn’t always support her troops, especially once their military contracts expire and they become disabled... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
AP: Don?t Call The Coalition Of The Billing?s Biggest ?Problem? Blackwater
2009-02-14 04:59:00 The “New And Improved Blackwater” Has Changed Its Name To “Xe”… Would Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, or any other “reputable” (in quotes because they’ve all had credibility issues from time to time) ever change their name in hopes of cleaning up a... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
CHANGE: Kellog Brown And Root (?KBR?) And Halliburton Raided By FBI And IRS
2009-01-23 04:09:00 OOPS — My Bad… … We can’t go after THOSE guys yet — Gotta go after those “Mom and Pop” crooks first: Local Defense Contractor Raided By FBI, IRS WINDBER, Pa. – Federal agents raided the Kuchera Companies in Windber, which include Kuchera Industries... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Blackwater radio logs contend incoming gunfire
2008-12-18 23:43:00 Blackwater radio logs contend incoming gunfire WASHINGTON - Radio logs from a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad contradict U.S. government claims that Blackwater Worldwide security guards were unprovoked when they killed 14 Iraqi civilians. Five guards face manslaughter and weapons charges for their roles in the shootings. A sixth has pleaded guilty. Prosecutors said the men unleashed ...
By: TexasFred's
IG report says Blackwater may lose license in Iraq
2008-12-18 00:58:00 IG report says Blackwater may lose license in Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) - An internal State Department report says Blackwater Worldwide may lose its license to work in Iraq and recommends that the agency prepare alternative means to protect its diplomats there. The 42-page draft report by the State Department’s Inspector General says the department faces “numerous ...
By: TexasFred's
Blackwater Manslaughter Case Raises Legal Issues
2008-12-09 19:02:00 The Blackwater 5 case is making headlines as the newest group of scapegoats to be roasted over the coals by the U.S. government. Using the Military Extraterritorial Judicial Act (MEJA), the five men–all prior military with combat experience and stellar careers–were charged under a 35-count indictment for their role in the deaths of Iraqi “civilians.” ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Blackwater Manslaughter Case Raises Legal Issues
2008-12-09 19:02:00 The Blackwater 5 case is making headlines as the newest group of scapegoats to be roasted over the coals by the U.S. government. Using the Military Extraterritorial Judicial Act (MEJA), the five men–all prior military with combat experience and stellar careers–were charged under a 35-count indictment for their role in the deaths of Iraqi “civilians.” ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Blackwater Manslaughter Case Raises Legal Issues
2008-12-09 19:02:00 The Blackwater 5 case is making headlines as the newest group of scapegoats to be roasted over the coals by the U.S. government. Using the Military Extraterritorial Judicial Act (MEJA), the five men–all prior military with combat experience and stellar careers–were charged under a 35-count indictment for their role in the deaths of Iraqi “civilians.” ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Blackwater Manslaughter Case Raises Legal Issues
2008-12-09 19:02:00 The Blackwater 5 case is making headlines as the newest group of scapegoats to be roasted over the coals by the U.S. government. Using the Military Extraterritorial Judicial Act (MEJA), the five men–all prior military with combat experience and stellar careers–were charged under a 35-count indictment for their role in the deaths of Iraqi “civilians.” ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Blackwater guards in Baghdad shooting surrender
2008-12-08 19:07:00 Blackwater guards in Baghdad shooting surrender WASHINGTON (AP) ? Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards surrendered on 14 counts of manslaughter and dozens of other charges Monday in connection with an investigation into a deadly 2007 shooting at a busy Baghdad intersection. A sixth guard admitted in a plea deal to killing at least one Iraqi in ...
By: TexasFred's
Blackwater v. Judge Ryan: Malpractice Suit Dismissed
2008-06-05 03:02:00 That litigious private army Blackwater had their malpractice suit against Wiley Rein and C.A.A.F. Judge Margaret A. Ryan dismissed by the D.C. Superior Court. Blackwater filed the lawsuit in January 2008, claiming Wiley lawyers, including Judge Ryan, neglected critical case law while defending a wrongful-death case brought on behalf of four Blackwater employees ...
By: Dreadnaught
[Amusing] Blackwater Security buys a fighter plane from Brazil. when told t
2008-06-02 05:08:00 USA Today
Blackwater Worldwide: Not So Welcome In San Diego
2008-05-24 05:25:00 Blackwater Worldwide was planning to open a training facility outside San Diego. Not so fast, says the mayor of San Diego. On Monday, Sanders told his development services director, Kelly Broughton, that Blackwater’s permits, which had been issued by city staff, will require more scrutiny than the staff-level review. Broughton then sent a letter to Blackwater ...
By: Dreadnaught
Blackwater shooting highlights ignorance of American officials
2008-05-04 17:52:00 Mohammed Hafidh Abdul-Razzaq had been summoned by U.S. Embassy officials who wanted to make amends for the killing of his 10-year-old son. The boy died during a shooting involving employees of Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. security firm. Deputy Chief of Mission Patricia A. Butenis told him that she was sorry for what had happened, Abdul-Razzaq recalled. She gave him a sealed envelope. It had his name written on it. Abdul-Razzaq pushed it away. “I told her I refuse to receive any amount,” the auto parts dealer said. “My father is a tribal sheik, and we’re not used to taking any amount unless the concerned will come and confess and apologize. Then we will talk about compensation.” In September, Blackwater contractors protecting an embassy mission killed 17 Iraqis, including Abdul-Razzaq’s boy, and injured at least two dozen in a widely publicized incident in west Baghdad’s Nisoor Square. Blackwater officials have said their workers feared the...
By: PhreQuency Ent.
Iraqis accuse Blackwater of shredding documents
2008-04-26 10:03:00 Families of Iraqis who died in a shooting involving Blackwater Worldwide contractors accused the company Friday of shredding documents and destroying evidence. Lawyers for the families made the accusations in court documents but identified the source of the information only as former employees. They said officials at the company's North Carolina compound shredded documents related to ongoing investigations sometime around March 18. Company lawyers had no immediate comment Friday night, but they are quoted in court documents as saying Blackwater took appropriate steps to make sure documents were not destroyed. Lawyers for the Iraqis do not say what investigation the documents relate to. Blackwater, a major security contractor in Iraq, is under scrutiny in several matters.Most notably, its guards are under investigation for a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. There is no indication the Justice Department is investigating shredding as part of that case. ...
By: Circle of 13
Blackwater Worldwide Invades California
2008-04-25 22:19:00 According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Blackwater Worldwide is: planning to open an indoor training center in Otay Mesa to train Navy personnel after abandoning its controversial proposal to build a larger facility on a ranch in Potrero. Brian Bonfiglio, a Blackwater vice president, said the facility will operate out of a 61,600-square-foot building in a business ...
By: Dreadnaught
Adviser To Maliki: Blackwater Staying In Iraq Is ?Bad News?
2008-04-06 01:05:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 4:00 PM MST A woman passes a burned car in Baghdad where Blackwater guards killed 17 in September. From CNN: Iraqi official: Blackwater staying on ‘is bad news’ BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. State Department’s renewal of Blackwater’s contract to provide security in Iraq “is bad news,” an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...
By: Suzie-Q
'Blackwater Bridge' in Fallujah Refurbished
2008-04-01 00:03:00 It was America's Mogadishu moment - only with civilian private military contractors going down in Fallujah, Iraq instead of Army Blackhawks in Somalia's capital. The Marines are trying to wipe the slate of history clean today with a few coats of fresh paint splashed over a ghastly landmark in America's painfully long war in Iraq. Four years ago today, four American security men from Blackwater were ambushed in Fallujah. They were shot in their vehicles, doused in gasoline and set afire, mutilated...(read more)
Presidential passport breach: Why do contractors have easy access to sensit
2008-03-23 19:25:00 The accessing of private passport-based travel data of all three Presidential candidates by contractors working for the State Department has finally galvanized Capitol Hill to address the issue of privacy–something we’ve been begging them to do for years. Ron Wyden sums it up succinctly: “The Government Accountability Office has been warning about this problem for a decade. And it seems to me in this administration, there’s been pretty much a culture of disregard for privacy, and that’s part of the problem,” he said. Wyden may have been referring to a 2006 report from the GAO documenting the lack of oversight in sharing Social Security Numbers with contractors working for various federal agencies, including the IRS and the FBI, as well as within the private sector. It is but one of many reports the investigative agency has issued documenting the serious vulnerabilities our government’s mad drive to outsource its functions to the private sect...
Blackwater fades into the men in the Greystone suits?
2008-03-21 17:50:00 After the debacle of last September’s murder of Iraqi civilians, many Americans held out hope that Blackwater, former Navy Seal and right wing evangelical Erik Prince’s guns-for-hire to the Busheviks operation located in the Great Dismal Swamp of eastern North Carolina had been exposed and might be forced into decline and eventual disenfranchisement. A new article in Mother Jones warns us not to be sanguine - or naive about such a happy possibility occurring. Like Phillip Morris, Blackwater has simply devised another name and plans to continue business - and, like Altria (not to be confused with nutria, although such plagues abound all around us, it seems), that business will be same as it ever was. Blackwater has now set up a new front er, subsidiary, headquartered in the Barbados (that haven for businesses seeking to evade taxes because, after all, we wouldn’t want Blackwater to pay taxes on the money it gets from American taxpayers through sole source contracts...
Waxman Asks IRS To Investigate Blackwater - CBS News
2008-03-11 00:00:00 TPMWaxman Asks IRS To Investigate BlackwaterCBS News -1 hour agoBy Patrick O'Connor (The Politico) House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) called on the Internal Revenue Service Monday to initiate an investigation into whether Blackwater Worldwide failed to pay millions in federal ...Democrat Requests Blackwater InquiryThe Associated ...
By: Pakistan News
Justice Department Investigating Blackwater
2008-03-03 08:31:00 The Justice Department is gathering testimony from Iraqi witnesses for a possible trial of Blackwater Worldwide security guards over a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. FBI agents and Justice Department attorneys arrived in Baghdad last week in order to conduct interviews as part of an investigation into the truth ...
Blackwater Inquiry Turns to Baghdad
2008-02-22 15:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 AM MST Blackwater Inquiry Turns to Baghdad Federal authorities investigating Blackwater Worldwide contractors are returning to Baghdad this week to revisit the scene of a deadly September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. The two-week trip, by eight prosecutors and FBI agents, marks the latest phase in an inquiry that was ...
By: Suzie-Q
We Are Blackwater: New Book From Blackwater Worldwide CEO Erik Prince
2008-02-10 03:57:00 The CEO and owner of Blackwater Worldwide, Erik D. Prince, has signed a book deal with Regnery Publishing. The book is billed as, the only insider?s account of the controversial company that has supplied bodyguards and support-and-rescue personnel to hot spots around the world, including the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. yojoe out ...
By: Dreadnaught
Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction
2008-01-31 17:13:00 By Jeremy Scahill AlterNet Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater’s worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free. Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the deadly actions of Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration’s favorite ...
By: Current Era Blog
The imperial President redux
2008-01-31 00:44:00 Last week I posted about President Bush considering doing an end-run around the Senate regarding a treaty status of forces agreement between the U.S. and the Iraqi government (specifically the Iraqi President and Cabinet) that might put the U.S. on notice that it’s our job to protect the government even in the event of an Iraqi civil war. And I pointed out that Bush had used signing statements to claim that he wasn’t subject to the very federal laws he was signing because they restricted his ability to build permanent military bases in Iraq. Well, Bush II (the dynastic designation seems somehow appropriate) done it yet again. In signing the Defense Authorization bill, Bush II took specific exception to “sections 841, 846, 1079, and 1222″ in yet another signing statement. Section 841 creates the “Commission on Wartime Contracting,” specifically to look into Iraq occupation abuses and fraud by people like Blackwater. I suspect that Bush doesnR...
Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction
2008-01-30 16:54:00 Sudhan @16:55 CET By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted January 29, 2008. Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater?s worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free. Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from ...
By: Suzie-Q
Blackwater Case Faces Obstacles, Justice Dept. Says
2008-01-16 05:31:00 In a private briefing in mid-December, officials from the Justice and State Departments met with aides to the House Judiciary Committee and other Congressional staff members and warned them that there were major legal obstacles that might prevent any
By: Get rich
FBI Finds Blackwater Trucks Repaired & Repainted
2008-01-13 16:41:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 8:45 AM MST An Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed Sept. 16, 2007, by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq in this Sept. 20, 2007 file photo. Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to ...
By: Suzie-Q
2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
2008-01-10 14:09:00 Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders.
By: Get rich
05 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
2008-01-10 07:19:00 Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders.
By: Get rich
Use of gas by Blackwater leaves questions
2008-01-10 06:42:00 WASHINGTON: Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders.
By: Get rich
Bolton Faults U.S. in Bhutto Assassination
2008-01-07 02:08:00 Following Benazir Bhutto?s 27 December 2007 assassination in Pakistan, much ink was devoted to the blame game. But this little gem from the always-blunt and sometimes controversial John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, didn’t receive much press coverage. Bolton believes that the U.S. helped set in motion a chain of events leading to former prime minister Bhutto’s murder.
By: pajamadeen
Conspiracy Theory Du Jour ?Haliburton? or ?Blackwater? Will Assassinate Oba
2008-01-05 16:09:00 Want some old fashioned black helicopter, conspiracy goofiness? Check out the frenzied work of HufPoster Joseph Palmero who imagines that if Obama becomes president members of Blackwater security services or Haliburton would somehow decide to assassinate him. After reading his wild-eyed musings, one wonders if the foam from his mouth short circuited his keyboard as ...
Conspiracy Theory Du Jour ?Haliburton? or ?Blackwater? Will Assassinate Oba
2008-01-05 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Want some old fashioned black helicopter, conspiracy goofiness? Check out the frenzied work of HufPoster Joseph Palmero who imagines that if Obama becomes president members of Blackwater security services or Haliburton would somehow decide to assassinate him. After reading his wild-eyed musings, one wonders if the foam ...
By: Publius Forum
Bush Administration Warned About Blackwater and Other Private Firms
2007-12-24 12:05:00 We’ve seen the same pattern repeated many times with the Bush administration. Both the Clinton administration and the CIA provided Bush with warnings about al Qaeda but he ignored them. Many people warned that going into Iraq would be a disaster, predicting the situation we are now in. The Washington Post reports on another example ...
By: Liberal Values
Blackwater Shoots Unarmed Non-Combatant
2007-12-20 15:14:00 There appears to be a common theme to the reported killings attributed to Blackwater employees in Iraq. The vast majority of those who died at the slimy hands of Blackwater employees were unarmed non-combatants. This latest incident involved the cold-blooded murder of the New York Times’ dog who lived in their Iraqi compound. The common thread ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mitt Romney: Tabernacle Choirboy or Blackwater Mercenary
2007-12-16 23:34:00 by Robert Weitzel “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” - Mike Huckabee Mitt Romney, like his great-grandfather who had five wives, is a polygamist. His problem? The Mormon Church—as well as the United States government—outlawed polygamy for its “Saints” in 1890. But Mitt has been married monogamously to Ann for 38 years. His problem? He is a political polygamist whose multiple marriages of convenience, and the ease with which he maneuvers between conjugal visits, should be as disturbing to the American electorate as a Utah harem. Our problem? Mitt seems to be equally at home with “our nation’s symphony of faith” as he is with our nation’s largest mercenary army, Blackwater Worldwide, the Whore of Babylon. On December 6, Romney delivered his “Faith in America” speech at George H.W. Bush’s Presidential Library. It was his John Kennedy moment. Like Kennedy, he wanted to assure the American people that “no authorities of m...
Another Blackwater Official Resigns
2007-12-13 01:43:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 5:45 PM MST Make that two State Department officials overseeing Blackwater to resign. On November 30, Kevin Barry, a top official at the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security — Blackwater’s liaison office — opted to spend more time with the family. Barry joins the Bureau’s chief, who quit in October. Barry’s ...
By: Suzie-Q
Blackwater Supporters Ousted
2007-12-12 19:07:00 When it comes to the shady, no-bid contracts, Blackwater is certainly a winner. When it comes to putting projects out in a public forum, not only the company, but also their supporters get the big Screw You from John Q. Public. The citizens of Potrero, California, a quiet little mountain town west of San Diego, ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Investigation Continues Of Blackwater Guards
2007-12-09 15:02:00 Federal investigators examining the shooting death by Blackwater guards of Iraqi civilians have narrowed their focus to three men who were involved in the incident that caused great anger in Iraq. A federal grand jury is conducting the investigation and there apparently are great concerns over testimony that has already been provided the group. An ...
GOTCHA!! Inspector General with Links to Blackwater Resigns!
2007-12-08 21:54:00 By GEF @ 1:58 PM MST via C&L Breaking: Cookie crumbles; Krongards resigns By: bluegal @ 6:26 PM - PST Reuters: State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother?s link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on Friday. Krongard, the State Department?s top investigator, has been accused by ...
By: Suzie-Q
Blackwater?s Bu$ine$$
2007-12-07 10:43:00 Sudhan @10:45 CET Jeremy Scahill | The Nation, posted December 6, 2007 (December 24, 2007 issue) Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled ?criminal.? Multiple Congressional investigations. A federal grand jury. Allegations of illegal arms smuggling. Wrongful death lawsuits brought by families of ...
By: Suzie-Q
Spin sets up Blackwater at border, while military smuggles drugs
2007-12-06 23:54:00 by Brenda Norrell Television news is ready to pump you up, and deliver the agenda. Meanwhile, after writing about all the National Guardsmen rushing to smuggle cocaine from the Arizona border, there was a lingering question: "Why weren't any Border Patrol agents arrested?" Sure, Border Patrol agents have been charged with murder and rape at the border, but why weren't any Border Patrol agents caught smuggling drugs during the sting, Operation Lively Green? Blackwater Goes to Mexico By JOHN ROSS If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily-armed operatives are forced to pull out of Iraq as the result of the September 16th rampage in downtown Baghdad when its employees massacred up to 28 Iraqis, Mexico could be a profitable option for the North Carolina-based company. Actually, Blackwater is almost in Mexico already. For months, the North Carolina-based corporation has been pressuring local San Diego officials to grant it an operating lic...
Blackwater explained for the Dick and Jane crowd?.
2007-12-06 21:29:00 See Erik Prince. See Erik Prince dodge responsibility for Blackwater actions. See Erik Prince get rich(er) from Blackwater. See State Department toadies get bonuses for helping Blackwater get even more money from taxpayers. See Erik Prince smirk.
Private Security in Iraq Face Tighter Rules
2007-12-06 09:28:00 WASHINGTON ? Top officials in the State Department and the Pentagon have agreed to new rules governing security contractors in Iraq, following a number of incidents that have come to light about alleged rogue activity by private armed guards on the U.S. payroll. FOX News confirms that a meeting is scheduled for today to finalize the ...
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