Blackwater (now Xe) reaches settlement with State Dept. (1 Viewer)

[badmojo1006]

Pays 42 million dollars in fines.

 

[Arizona Ron]

chump change

 

[Radio Free Homer]

What a joke.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Not sure why anyone would be surprised by any of this.

 

[Sheriff66]

This Prince guy is a real piece of work, read this on vacation, real eye opener.

 

[SofaKings]

For a time, the company’s founder, Erik Prince, had ambitions to turn Blackwater into an informal arm of the American foreign policy and national security apparatus, and proposed to the C.I.A. to create a “quick reaction force” that could handle paramilitary operations for the spy agency around the world. He had hopes that Blackwater’s military prowess could be an influential force in regional conflicts around the world.

Mr. Prince, a former Navy Seals member and the heir to an auto parts fortune, took an interest in Africa, particularly Sudan, and he is said to have wanted Blackwater to step in to help the rebels in southern Sudan, which is predominantly Christian and animist, fight the Sudanese government and the Muslim north, despite United States economic sanctions.

And they are still getting hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts. Disgusting.

This is exactly what people are talking about when they say America, is at times, complicit in its own problems.

You dont think this #### has legitimate repercussions? GTFOOH.

That would be a good business decision.

 

[SofaKings]

For a time, the company’s founder, Erik Prince, had ambitions to turn Blackwater into an informal arm of the American foreign policy and national security apparatus, and proposed to the C.I.A. to create a “quick reaction force” that could handle paramilitary operations for the spy agency around the world. He had hopes that Blackwater’s military prowess could be an influential force in regional conflicts around the world.

Mr. Prince, a former Navy Seals member and the heir to an auto parts fortune, took an interest in Africa, particularly Sudan, and he is said to have wanted Blackwater to step in to help the rebels in southern Sudan, which is predominantly Christian and animist, fight the Sudanese government and the Muslim north, despite United States economic sanctions.

And they are still getting hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts. Disgusting.

This is exactly what people are talking about when they say America, is at times, complicit in its own problems.

You dont think this #### has legitimate repercussions? GTFOOH.

That would be a good business decision.

Good for who?And who made the decision?

If I own a company like that, why not try to go for that?

 

[Woogie Lee]

For a time, the company’s founder, Erik Prince, had ambitions to turn Blackwater into an informal arm of the American foreign policy and national security apparatus, and proposed to the C.I.A. to create a “quick reaction force” that could handle paramilitary operations for the spy agency around the world. He had hopes that Blackwater’s military prowess could be an influential force in regional conflicts around the world.

Mr. Prince, a former Navy Seals member and the heir to an auto parts fortune, took an interest in Africa, particularly Sudan, and he is said to have wanted Blackwater to step in to help the rebels in southern Sudan, which is predominantly Christian and animist, fight the Sudanese government and the Muslim north, despite United States economic sanctions.

And they are still getting hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts. Disgusting.

This is exactly what people are talking about when they say America, is at times, complicit in its own problems.

 

[SofaKings]

Where did ya go Sofa?

If I am in charge of the company, I try to generate revenue for it.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

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.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0