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Reporter: Blackwater Spied for Disney, Monsanto, Royal Caribbean
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Controversial private security firm Xe (nee Blackwater) has long had a checkered reputation. Now a new article in the leftist magazine The Nation says that in addition to its involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Blackwater operated through a related firm called Total Intelligence Solutions to perform work for a range of American corporations with international dealings, including Monsanto, Chevron, Royal Caribbean cruises and Walt Disney. The article is by Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater." In it, he reports that Total Intelligence was hired to do a "threat ...
CIA Hires Private Security Firm Xe, Formerly Blackwater, In Afghanistan
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe CIA has hired the private security firm Xe Services to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, it was reported Thursday. An industry source tells The Washington Post the contract, worth about $100 million, is for "protective services... guard services, in multiple regions." Xe, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, won the deal over two other security contractors, Triple Canopy and DynCorp International, the source told the newspaper. News of the contract comes after a federal commission investigating war-zone contractors criticized the State Department this week for ...
Ex-Blackwater Bosses Indicted on Weapons Charges
By not in system - AOL News(April 16) -- The former president and four other ex-employees of Blackwater Worldwide were indicted Friday on weapons charges and on charges of making false statements. ...
Ex-Blackwater Bosses Indicted on Weapons Charges
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe former president and four other ex-employees of Blackwater Worldwide were indicted Friday on weapons charges and on charges of making false statements. The 15-count indictment accuses the five of skirting federal firearms laws and misrepresenting weapons sales, Reuters reported. Gary Jackson, the company's former president, was charged along with former general counsel Andrew Howell; former executive vice president William Mathews; former vice president of logistics and procurement, Ana Bundy; and former armorer Ronald Slezak. Prosecutors said they gave weapons as gifts to Jordanian ...
Feds May Charge Ex-Blackwater Bosses Over Weapons Stockpile
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe U.S. Justice Department is considering bringing charges against former officials of the private security company Blackwater in connection with a stockpile of automatic weapons seized at the outfit's North Carolina headquarters, the Associated Press reports. Federal prosecutors are said to be looking at charges against ex-Blackwater president Gary Jackson, onetime company lawyer Andrew Howell and a third man. The case stems from a 2008 raid in which federal agents seized 22 weapons, including 17 AK-47s, at a Blackwater armory in North Carolina. Federal law bars private companies from ...
Report: Blackwater Played Fast and Loose With Rules
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Feb. 23) -- Weapons signed out by a character from "South Park," a dangerous joyride with AK-47s and hundreds of missing weapons that had been intended to help equip Afghan security forces. It sounds like a cartoon parody of war, but these are just a few of the problems the Senate Armed Services Committee said it found during a six-month investigation into Xe Services, better known by its former name, Blackwater Worldwide. The investigation's findings are set to be the subject of a Senate hearing Wednesday, but panel Chairman Carl Levin previewed some of the allegations today. The Michigan ...
Report: Blackwater Guards Used in Secret CIA Raids
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPrivate guards from the security firm Blackwater Worldwide participated in secret CIA raids against militants and helped transport detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was reported Friday. Intelligence officials and former Blackwater employees told The New York Times the guards regularly took part in so-called "snatch and grab" operations to capture or kill insurgents from 2004 to 2006. Their involvement "became so routine that the lines supposedly dividing the Central Intelligence Agency, the military and Blackwater became blurred," the paper reported. The guards, who were hired to provide ...
Report: Blackwater Executives OK'd Bribes After Iraqi Shootings
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySenior executives at the security firm Blackwater Worldwide approved secret payments of $1 million to buy the silence of Iraqi officials after its guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad two years ago, it was reported Wednesday. Blackwater's then-president Gary Jackson approved the payments in late 2007 as the outcry over the killings grew, according to the New York Times. But company officials who spoke to the newspaper said they did not know who the cash was intended for or whether it was ever delivered. In September 2007, 17 Iraqis were killed in Nisour Square when guards protecting a ...
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