ABC News has emails from State Dept re: Blackwater!!!

[Rick Myers]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/10/exclusive-state.html

"Exclusive: State Dept. E-Mails Say Blackwater Hurting U.S. in Iraq"

They have State Dept emails going back over 2 years.

[rateyes]

1. Condi Rice and those Blackwater bastards,

are some sick fucks.

[Trajan]

2. Let's get this out there ....

ABC News: The Blotter

Exclusive: State Dept. E-Mails Say Blackwater Hurting U.S. in Iraq

October 25, 2007 12:37 PM

Brian Ross Reports:


Internal State Department e-mails, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, show top officials were extensively briefed about repeated incidents of Blackwater security guards killing innocent civilians more than two years ago.

It was only in the last month that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took action to review the activities of Blackwater and other private security companies in Iraq.

The assistant secretary of state who oversaw Blackwater and other contractors, Richard Griffin, resigned yesterday in the wake of a critical internal review.

Yet, the e-mails show that State Department officials had extensive knowledge of a growing problem in the summer of 2005, and complained about a lack of a compensation program for civilian victims.

"Obviously it is not pleasant meeting with these individuals with nothing more to offer than apologies, condolences and vague promises," wrote a State Department security officer based in al Hillah, Michael Bishop, to his superiors at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

[KansDem]

3. Paid killers...just paid killers...

Forget the registered sex-offenders database,* I want a Blackwater employee/former employee database. I want to know where these killers are so I can stay the hell away from them!

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Not really...don't forget this database. Just add the BW information to it...

[PurityOfEssence]

6. No, no, no: "contractors"

You know, "button-men", "torpedoes", "mechanics".

You're right: contractors are guys with tool belts who fix your cabinets; killers are guys who get hanged from bridges...

Makes ya proud, doesn't it?

[halobeam]

4. K & R!!

where is everyone?

[gateley]

5. K&R. nt