Congress has begun to raise questions about the continued granting of lucrative security contracts to Blackwater, the mercenary army which has been accused of gunrunning and murder in their other deployments abroad as government contractors. The Obama administration has awarded $220m in new contracts to the military contractor formerly known as Blackwater to provide security [...]

Spencer has an amazing piece at the Washington Independent: Employees of the CIA-connected private security corporation Blackwater diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee. On at least one occasion, [...]

Iraq has given all former employees of Blackwater seven days to leave the country. Contractors who once worked for Blackwater, now known as Xe, have seven days to leave Iraq, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told the state television network al-Iraqiya. The move follows a January declaration by Iraq’s government that former Blackwater employees were no [...]

Ali al-Dabbagh, the spokesman for the Iraqi government, has a clear message for any current or former employees of Blackwater: stay out of Iraq. The Iraqi government is actively pursuing any former Blackwater personnel still working in the country, spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told CNN in an interview Sunday. “I don’t think [the] Iraqi government is [...]

A federal judge has dropped all charges in the murder case of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing at least 17 civilians in Nissour Square, Iraq, in a massacre that outraged locals and the US military alike. The ruling cites errors by prosecutors in relying on testimony given to State Department investigators after the [...]

Sometimes, good things happen. Erik Prince is quitting Blackwater (now known as Xe). A day with my tax dollars not funding the likes of Erik Prince is a good day. But that’s not really the important part of this story. That would be the fact that Prince was a CIA asset. “I put myself and [...]

According to the New York Times, executives at Blackwater tried to buy the silence of the Iraqi government by offering up to $1 million dollars in bribes after the Nissour Square massacre tarnished their image and threatened their expulsion from the country. Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests [...]