http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/29/1310496/-Blackwater-Quashed-Investigation-by-Threatening-to-Kill-State-Department-Employees?detail=email
if you're wondering where you've seen this before, Bundy ranch that's where
WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports.
American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators as a dispute over the probe escalated in August 2007, the previously undisclosed documents show. The officials told the investigators that they had disrupted the embassy’s relationship with the security contractor and ordered them to leave the country, according to the reports.
After returning to Washington, the chief investigator wrote a scathing report to State Department officials documenting misconduct by Blackwater employees and warning that lax oversight of the company, which had a contract worth more than $1 billion to protect American diplomats, had created “an environment full of liability and negligence.”
America ignoring history in an effort to give cronies contracts Bush and the boyz contracted with mercenary groups to do the dirty work, problem with hiring gunslingers is always the potential of them turning on you at some point. if it's true that state dept was threatened there should be a bill passed to eliminate this practice better still quit getting in to wars where you can make a profit.
we've heard the horror stories of rape, pillaging and murder all in the name of America. these guys are in it for the bucks not for patriotism they are war mongering zealots looking for a fight, and mercenaries fits their bill.
just like those who carry these guys are dangerous and a menace to our society, they serve a purpose but wouldn't have to if we stay out of foreign conflicts, one evil begat's another.
