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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlackwater Brass Rips Spineless, Worthless Jeff Sessions
DailybeastOn the eve of Erik Princes testimony before the Houses Russia investigators, his former guns-for-hire are going after the attorney generalwhos caught in the Russia probe, too.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a new group of critics: former officials at Blackwater, the military contracting firm that was sold and renamed after its connection to the killings of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007.
Thats because in the ten years since those deaths in Baghdads Nisour Square, the Justice Department has taken an aggressive and sometimes unorthodox approach to prosecuting four former Blackwater contractors for those killings. And that aggressive stance is continuing under Sessions.
The founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is set testify before the House intelligence committee on Nov. 30 as part of its Russia probe. And that gives the dispute an additional dimension. Two key players in the unfolding Trump-Russia drama are now at odds: Sessions, who keeps remembering more and more discussions aboutand meetings withKremlin officials; and Prince, who reportedly had a secret meeting with a Putin crony earlier this year in an attempt to open a back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump White House.
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Blackwater Brass Rips Spineless, Worthless Jeff Sessions (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Nov 2017
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Initech
(100,102 posts)1. Blackwater is a truly awful company.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)2. Didnt they change their name
To some random letters?
Initech
(100,102 posts)6. Yeah after Obama took office they sold most of their assets.
And started calling themselves "XE Holdings" to avoid prosecution of Bush era crimes. Real group of winners they are!
Jimbo101
(776 posts)3. don't care for either of them -
- but it's fun to watch when they turn on each other
Volaris
(10,274 posts)5. Yep the Rats are about to start fucking each other.
Get the popcorn ready. I expect Sessions to get set on fire in this hearing.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)4. Mercenaries
Fight for money, they have no loyalty, and hanging them from a bridge and setting them on fire is a good start!!!
I don't like Sessions and believe that he should spend the rest of his life in a pain amplifier, but mercenaries are so low that they have to look up to see whale s**t!!!