June 22, 2009 Master of War: Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War By Suzanne Simons New York, Harper/Collins $27.99, 279 pages I approached this book with some skepticism after reading on the ...
BBC | February 17, 2011: Was he acting in self-defence? Matters were further inflamed by the suicide of the widow of one of the men killed by Mr Davis That was the initial plea made ...
Emails show discord in Blackwater investigation FBI agents thought some in Justice Dept. were undermining Iraqi civilian-deaths case As prosecutors put the finishing touches on the 2008 indictment of Blackwater security contractors for a deadly ...
For Republicans, hiring lobbyists to handle the day-to-day goings on of Congress seems to have become a normal occurrence these days, so Academi lobbyist Jeff Shockey being named Staff Director of the House Intelligence ...
Days after several former Blackwater guards were found guilty of violent crimes related to the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade hosted Blackwater founder Erik Prince for an interview that glossed over the ...
By Spencer S. Hsu, Victoria St. Martin and Keith L. Alexander Washington Post, October 22, 2014 A federal jury in Washington convicted four Blackwater Worldwide guards Wednesday in the fatal shooting of 14 unarmed Iraqis, seven years after the ...
“… A top manager at Blackwater … openly threatened to kill a US State Department official in 2007 if he continued to investigate Blackwater’s corrupt dealings in Iraq …” Government Repeatedly Threatening Reporter Who Exposed ...
By Stephanie Russell-Kraf Law360, New York (May 19, 2014, 5:54 PM ET) — The U.S. and four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors accused of killing 14 Iraqi citizens exchanged volleys in D.C. federal court Friday over ...
Related: Blackwater Defends Iraq Shootings Iraq Pulling License of Blackwater Security By PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed criminal charges against a former Blackwater security guard whose actions allegedly triggered ...
The Associated Press, April 9, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is calling for an investigation of the State Department over years of delays in prosecuting Blackwater security guards in the shootings of dozens of ...
Blackwater Shootings: Killers Hiding Behind The Military By Tina Volpe WebProNews, March 29, 2014 On September 16, 2007, employees of military contractor Blackwater USA opened fire in a Baghdad traffic circle called Nisoor Square. They killed 17 unarmed ...
From: “Patrick fallout involves FBI, Secret Service, CIA,” The State, February 20, 2014: Fallout from state Rep. Andy Patrick’s divorce case has attracted the attention of the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and the Central ...
Did ALEC Found State Policy Network? 1991 Report Suggests So, Exposes SPN Agenda December 12, 2013 The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network (SPN) — which was exposed recently in a Center ...
June 13, 2013 Colombia’s defense ministry is alarmed about an exodus of top soldiers to the United Arab Emirates to join a highly paid U.S.-led mercenary force organized by Erik Prince, billionaire founder of the ...
Also see: “Monsanto turns to Blackwater for increased security, intelligence and ‘infiltrate activist groups’” ” … Blackwater has reportedly been tasked by Monsanto to collect intelligence on activists rallying against genetically modified crops and other ...
NORFOLK – Two former Blackwater contractors have been ordered to federal prison after exhausting their appeals in the 2009 shooting death of a civilian in Afghanistan. Christopher Drotleff of Virginia Beach and Justin Cannon of ...
Fars News Agency, December 9, 2012 TEHRAN (FNA)- The notorious Blackwater security firm plans to widen its activities in Afghanistan after the US-led foreign forces withdraw from the war-torn country in a bid to secure the ...
RT, January 19, 2012 For skeptics of how the American government has conducted its so-called War on Drugs, don’t worry, it will soon be out of their hands. The US Department of Defense has transferred ...
By Chad Garrison Riverfront Times Blogs | May 5 2011 Former U.S. Attorney General (and past Missouri governor and U.S. Senator) John Ashcroft has a new title for his resumé: head of governance at the ...
By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT New York Times | January 20, 2011 WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is secretly backing an effort by a controversial South African ...
By Ed Brayton Michigan Messenger | October 5, 2010 Spencer Ackerman, formerly the foreign policy and military correspondent for our sister site the Washington Independent, reports that Blackwater/Xe, the controversial private military company owned by ...
“… In a sworn deposition for a lawsuit brought by two ex-Blackwater employees, [Howard] Lowry maintains that he hung out at Blackwater parties in Baghdad where ‘company personnel had large amounts of cocaine and blocks ...
By John Byrne Raw Story | September 16th, 2010 Also on list: Royal Caribbean, Deutsche Bank, Chevron Almost three years ago exactly — Sept. 17, 2007 — a cadre of guards from the security firm ...
” … The Times quoted former Blackwater officials as saying that at least two Blackwater-affiliated companies, XPG and Greystone, obtained secret contracts from the CIA to provide security to agency operatives. … “ (AP) – ...
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Blackwater Reaches Deal on U.S. Export Violations James Risen | NYT | August 20, 2010 WASHINGTON — The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement ...
By Raw Story | April 22, 2010 (Repost) Blackwater mercenaries loaded for bear A lawyer for the former Blackwater president who has been charged with gun crimes hinted at his client’s defense Wednesday, telling a North ...
By WARREN P. STROBEL, JONATHAN S. LANDAY AND JOSEPH NEFF McClatchy Newspapers | June 27, 2010 The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the ...
By Jeff Stein Washington Post | June 23, 2010 The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according ...
Noel Brinkerhoff AllGov.com | May 28, 2010 Unable to deploy troops in Pakistan, but still in need of ways to transport weapons across it and into Afghanistan, the U.S. government is looking for defense contractors ...
By BARBARA FERGUSON | ARAB NEWS | Mar 3, 2010 WASHINGTON: A security official at the US Embassy in Iraq said he believes State Department colleagues tried to block any serious probe of the 2007 ...
The Nation | February 10, 2010 THE Blackwater issue is fast descending into a shameful farce at the level of the government. Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Interior Minister and his Secretary continue ...
by Jed Lewison | Daily Kos | Feb 24, 2010 The only thing funny about this story is that Blackwater apparently signed for the guns using the fake name “Eric Cartman,” the obnoxious little brat from ...
By Don C. Reed Huffington Post | February 2, 2010 What is the connection between Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater/Xe, perhaps the world’s largest private army, and David Prentice, Ph.D, widely-known opponent of embryonic stem ...
Also see: “American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism,” and “USAID Officer Arrested with Terrorists in Islamabad,” also “DynCorp Sub-Contractor Inter-Risk was Behind the Oct. 10th Suicide Bombing of Pakistan’s Army HQ,” and “Extraditing Headley will Expose ...
