Blackwater founder cutting ties with company(Erik Prince)

Source: San Francisco Chronicle/AP

The man who built Blackwater USA into one of the world's most respected and reviled defense contractors will no longer be involved in the company's operations.

A spokeswoman for the company, now called Xe (zee), said Wednesday that Erik Prince will relinquish involvement in its day-to-day operations and give up some of his ownership rights. Prince had appointed a new president and chief operating officer in a management shake-up earlier this year.

Spokeswoman Stacy DeLuke says Prince felt he was "constantly being thrown under the bus" after serving the country for years. Prince's company did years of work for the government but has been dogged by a series of federal investigations into its work.

Vanity Fair magazine was first to report Prince's feelings about his treatment.




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whatever dickhead.

:nopity:

This republicon crony gets filthy fat rich off the government tit, then whines on his way to the beach...he needs an enema bag full of konzervative kompassion...

I'd be scared to be him.

Hoping to avoid lawsuits in the future.

Are there no honorable men in this nation?

What an arrogant prick. More like he made his millions and is now cashing out.

solid gold, diamond encrusted filthy rags, though...

I mean, all I'm seeing is negative comments around here.

:sarcasm:

in the military with young recruits taking the safer or unsafer jobs?

Prince = benefactor of psy ops and brute force operations.

that profits from human misery.

I'm guessing he'll join the revolving door gang in
Washington. You know, the one that moves from corporate
board positions to government offices.

We'll see.

BHN

Fuck you Prince.

You get no sympathy from me asshole.

and the capt wants a bailout.

Figures.

find a straight razor and a hole and use them in reverse order.

Someone will be along shortly to fill in the hole.


(I oppose the death penalty on principle, but by the nine gods
I swear, for his hanging I would stand quiet.)

I live in western MI and have had it with the whole Amway/Dutch Mafia/Bible-thumping creeps like Erik Prince & Pete Hoekstra. I don't know what's the matter with these people. Their brand of "Christianity" is so distasteful that I doubt I'll set foot inside a church ever again. I don't even read the local papers any more--full of Birthers and Teabaggers. Stunning. Tragic. Downright sad!

:mad:

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

Killing and war is big business.

oh the horror!!!

Company should have been called Wusswater.

Source: AP

Blackwater founder Prince feels thrown under bus

By MIKE BAKER (AP) – 2 hours ago

RALEIGH, N.C. — The man who built Blackwater USA into one of the world's most respected and reviled defense contractors feels that he was thrown under the bus after serving the nation's security interests for years.

Erik Prince's company, which renamed itself Xe Services in February after an uproar over its Iraq operations, has worked closely for years with the CIA, the State Department and the U.S. military. But it became the target of a series of federal investigations and congressional probes, primarily for its Iraq work. Most recently, officials disclosed that the CIA tapped the company to work under a program to capture or kill terrorists.

The 40-year-old heir to a Michigan auto parts fortune told Vanity Fair in an interview released Wednesday that Xe now pays $2 million a month in legal bills. The company is headquartered in Moyock in northeastern North Carolina,

"I put myself and my company at the CIA's disposal for some very risky missions," Prince told Vanity Fair for its January issue. "But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus."

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixH5l82hbCz1NXqc3wVvpf7xR5WAD9CBEIL00

The bus could go back and forth over him until DNA was the only possible way to ID him.

I'll drive...

That's a good start.

Looks like Prince has too high a profile now?

Conspired to murder witnesses in the criminal probe.

prince, has faced no consequences for the actions of his forces.

he was going to prison. sadly, for us, he is just being thrown under the bus. The bus is so much less painful.He will just get up from under that bus and hop on and ride into the sunset with his millions. :puke:

And honestly, I don't give a flying f about his damn "feelings." The guy is a criminal and made a fortune on the blood of others. If he feels bad, it seems to be for all the wrong reasons. His "treatment" my ass. Poor baby.

“I don’t understand how a program this sensitive leaks,” he says. “And to ‘out’ me on top of it?”

Or join Sarah Palin hosting a talk show for "true patriots" ?

Or will he just be moving to a country with which the USA doesn't have an extradition treaty?