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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBenghazi security was OUTSOURCED to BLACKWATER.
Edited title to reflect new info.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)according to a former Romney adviser on CNN (in he last segment just finished).
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)They are fugging ReTHUGs
This is crazy
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)It was a former Romney adviser who said the contract was delayed for two months because the State Dept. wanted to analyze their security requirements. I don't know how much of that is true.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)attackers where the "safe house" was. . . And the details of Steven's visit to Benghazi...
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)but it appears that the full contract was delayed for some reason.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)...should be wiped out.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Christian Crusade, airc, and who is a friend of the far right and the Bushes, after all the murder and rape charges against them and that they were not receiving any more 'contracts' from the US Government? Were they there on their own, or being paid by someone else?
Erik Prince is good friends with Republicans in Congress also. Don't remember him ever being friendly towards Democrats.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Blackwater=Ze- wtf????
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)for any blackwater members or those connected to such a vile aberration in US history, your time comes to an end.
gateley
(62,683 posts)I think I read one was a Seal.
As somebody posted, isn't this traditionally the job of the Marines?
We should have nothing to do with Blackwater (whatever it's current name is) -- I just don't get it
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)for many times their military pay. Then bills us TRIPLE, at minimum. Privatization. We recruit, train, etc., then fukin B'water LEASES them BACK to us. It's HORSESHIT.
2on2u
(1,843 posts)cronyism between them and the govt.
In this manner tax dollars are spent in the most efficient manner possible, by paying 4 or 5 times the rate that the military can do it for, who can argue the genius of this arrangement??
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/washington/08prince.html
Blackwater Chief at Nexus of Military and Business
By JAMES RISEN
Published: October 8, 2007
Correction Appended
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 Erik D. Prince, the crew-cut, square-jawed founder of Blackwater USA, the security contractor now at the center of a political storm in both Washington and Baghdad, is a man seemingly born to play a leading role in the private sector side of the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is both a former member of the Navy Seals and the scion of a fabulously wealthy, deeply religious family that is enmeshed in Republican Party politics. As a result, the 38-year-old Mr. Prince stands at the nexus between American Special Operations, which has played such a critical role in the war operations, and the nations political and business elite, who have won enormous government contracts as war operations have increasingly been outsourced.
Republican political connections ran deep in his family long before Mr. Prince founded Blackwater in 1997. When he was a teenager, religious conservative leaders like Gary Bauer, now the president of American Values, were house guests. James C. Dobson, the founder of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family, gave the eulogy at his fathers funeral in 1995. Dr. and Mrs. Dobson are friends with Erik Prince and his mother, Elsa Broekhuizen, Focus on the Family said in a statement.
gateley
(62,683 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)hung himself this week
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)see : http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1342361
I posted this earlier ,not that I really understood the subject ,but see comments. I'm not sure they had cover at all.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I am assuming the security "failure" was deliberate until proven otherwise.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)2008
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)andhe's also sending FBI to Libya.
I want more info in this Blackwater mess
Zorra
(27,670 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)"Academi is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Basically the son of a billionaire who created his own private army.
spanone
(135,873 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)You get what you pay for?
aquart
(69,014 posts)And it pays our highly trained-on-our-dime personnel to leave our armed services and hire out.
So we lose twice.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Blackwater, er Xe, er Academi have been caused us trouble for years. You think we would have learned by now.
aquart
(69,014 posts)I don't think it worked out well.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)It's up to the management to allocate the resources they think necessary.
aquart
(69,014 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Managmet fucked up in using mercs.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I bet they were high priced mercenaries. They paid a high price anyway.
MariaM83
(233 posts)and the former Blackwater has been a main player
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)sabotage
underpants
(182,877 posts)DING went the lightbulb.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Obama is right to send the US military and FBI to take over security operations.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)You know we haven't had the dots connected yet but DUers warned about this from way back when.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)AnnieBW
(10,457 posts)Or Xe. Or Wackyhut (Wackenhut). But probably Blackwater/Xe. The State Dept. outsourced diplomatic security to them to free up the Marines to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.