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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/...er-crimes/
Two men who claim to have worked for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater accused the company's founder and his employees of murder and other extraordinary criminal activities, according to anonymous affidavits filed in federal court this week.
The Nation magazine first reported Tuesday on the affidavits, which are part of a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of several Iraqis against the firm's founder, Erik Prince, and his employees for its alleged abuses in the country.
Taken together, the affidavits charge Blackwater founder Erik Prince with promoting "a culture of lawlessness" that included routine murderous violence against Iraqis, a wife-swapping sex ring, use of child prostitutes and weapons smuggling in bags of dog food.
Prince "encouraged employees to act in the company's financial interests at the expense of innocent human life," one of the affidavits filed Monday charged.
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not surprising to me, not at all.
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not surprising to me either. Outsourcing your core competency is bad for any organization, and doubly so for a military. Outsource the cooks ? Fine. Outsource the depot mechanics ? Okay, but it's better to have the guys whose butts are on the line when the tranny busts actually doing some of the work.
Outsourcing armed defense ? F*ing Insane !
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well, without any good oversight or accounting of how the money was being spent, what was everyone expecting?
tens of billions of dollars are unaccounted for.
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Racer X wrote:
well, without any good oversight or accounting of how the money was being spent, what was everyone expecting?
tens of billions of dollars are unaccounted for.
Frustratingly so.
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Same company has the 2009 / 2010 contracts for the drone hits in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Name has changed to Xe Services. War = death and it ain't pretty , nice or cheap.
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Obama can do something about Xe Services, if he chooses to.
