Blackwater is aggressively attacking Marshall Adame, Democratic challenger to “Mr. Freedom Fries,” seven-term Republican incumbent Walter B. Jones. Blackwater Worldwide’s 7,000-acre corporate headquarters and training facility sits in North Carolina’s 3rd District, which Adame is trying to win.
Adame, a former State Department official in Iraq, was protected by Blackwater thugs. He has publicly stated [...]
Well, here’s another well kept secret about Bush’s favorite mercenary death squad. Apparently in 2005, Blackwater dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance, from a helicopter. They also released it from an armored vehicle on U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians at the checkpoint to the Green Zone. Blackwater, being the steroid boneheads that they are, said [...]
The U.S. Departments of State and Defense have agreed to a new system of rules designed to increase control over private security contractors working in Iraq.
The two U.S. agencies with key roles in Iraq sought a “common understanding of how and when force, and particularly deadly force, should be used by [...]
Isn’t it interesting that we focus so much of our attention on athletes who use steroids? We send them for testing, investigations and at times strip them of their medals and records but the government hires Blackwater mercenaries that are never checked for steroid use.
Once again, Blackwater denies all charges of wrong doing and that [...]
Guest Post by Len Hart of The Existentialist Cowboy
The fall of the dollar means that Americans will pay more for almost everything. The “correction” had been overdue since the US became a debtor nation, a process completed under Ronald Reagan. It was on September 16, 1985, that the Commerce Department announced that the United [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard (Cookie) Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a congressional oversight committee.
Erik Prince, Blackwater’s top executive, said the conflict of interest questions raised by the [...]
You really have to wonder who’s in charge of the asylum this week. Condi who insists she can’t get rid of Blackwater because she needs them. Condi assigns a State Department team to investigate Blackwater screw ups and low and behold the same people who work for Condi have given her pet boys immunity. So [...]
The possibility of Blackwater falling into the Bush definition of unlawful combatant seems to have some legs among legal experts. If this turns out to be true then members of Blackwater will be no different then the detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay.
It will be interesting to see how the administration spins their unlawful [...]
Prior to the U.S. Iraq occupation Blackwater was basically a non existent small time company. However, their deep ties to the Bush administration have made Blackwater one of the most profitable war contractors in Iraq. It should come as no surprise that Blackwater would reinvest their profits or should I say our tax dollars to [...]
It would not surprise me if Bush vetoed this bill, after all his administrations ties to Blackwater run deep.
WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill Thursday that would make all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones subject to prosecution by U.S. courts. It was the first major legislation of its kind to [...]
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