CIA hired Blackwater for assassin program: reports

CIA hired Blackwater for assassin program: reports

AFP/File – File photo shows contractors of the US private security firm Blackwater in Baghdad in 2005.
Thu Aug 20, 7:15 am ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The CIA hired the Blackwater security firm in 2004 to help find and kill Al Qaeda leaders, US media said Thursday, citing intelligence officials.
The program, on which the Central Intelligence Agency spent several million dollars, was cut before launching any missions and the hiring of an outside company was a major reason that CIA director Leon Panetta moved to cancel it, the New York Times said.

Shortly after learning about the secret program in June, Panetta pulled the plug and briefed lawmakers on details of the program, of which they had not been informed since 2001.
Citing government officials, the Times said the CIA had separate agreements with top Blackwater executives for the outsourcing, as opposed to a formal contract with the whole firm.

The State Department cut ties with Blackwater following allegations of abuse in Iraq. The North Carolina-based company renamed itself Xe after the Iraq government banned it in January over the killings in Baghdad's Nisur Square on September 16, 2007.
It had been given "operational responsibility" for the Al Qaeda program, according to the Washington Post, which noted the covert effort was canceled before any missions were conducted.
Before the program ended, however, the private security firm had already been awarded "millions of dollars for training and weaponry," according to the Post.

"Outsourcing gave the agency more protection in case something went wrong," said an unnamed intelligence official close to the program, quoted by daily.

Lawmakers from the majority Democratic Party have accused former vice president Dick Cheney of abusing his power by ordering the CIA to withhold information from Congress about the program.
Panetta told members of Congress that Cheney ordered the agency not to share details of the program with legislators, according to Senate Intelligence Committee head Dianne Feinstein, who in July described the program as "outside the law."

Blackwater protected US government personnel in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion and had around 1,000 staff in the country, making it among the largest security firms operating there.

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Read the Testimonies of Two anynomous employees from Blackwater regarding murder, arms smuggling, and motivations of Murdering muslims in the name of Christianity, and possible child prostitution.
http://www.democracynow.org/resources/83/283/john-doe-declaration-1.pdf
http://www.democracynow.org/resources/84/284/john-doe-declaration-2.pdf

But what pisses me off is the possible wife swapping the executives and Erik Prince were doing! That's just wrong. Period. And this Prince guy calls himself a Good Christian. How Pathetic!

I remember Cynthia McKinney asking questions along those lines of Rumsfeld.

Delusions of "superiority" and hatred are certainly what the right wing is about --
and it's also perfectly clear that they are violent, brutal, cruel, sexually immature males.
Somehow the theft, deception, betrayal of our country is accomplished by men like this . . .

You can suspect this kind of stuff -- but it's only suspicion. Thank heavens these young
soldiers are sacrificing their lives to courageously tell us the truth. But, how many Americans
will actually really come to understand the true dimensions of what Blackwater/Prince have done.
What those who put him there have done?

More than 1 million Iraqis dead -- America should be in tears.

18. Mr. Prince knowingly hired two persons who were previously involved in the Kosovo sex
trafficking ring to serve at relatively high-levels within his companies.

19. Mr. Prince travelled repeatedly to Iraq, and frequently visited the Blackwater "Man
Camp" during his trips overseas. Mr. Prince failed to stop the ongoing use of prostitutes,
including child prostitutes, by his men.

20. Mr. Prince's North Carolina operations had an ongoing wife-swapping and sex ring,
which was participated in by many of Mr. Prince's top executives. This sex ring ended
up causing so many disputes amongst Mr. Prince's executives that Mr. Prince directed his
employee .T oseph Sclmridt to investigate and prepare a report.


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