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company s contracts with fema and the department of homeland security and says she was told to, quote, back off, and that she, quote, would never win a medal for saving the government money. no, but if the government is able to recover money from blackwater as a result of this lawsuit the davises could claim a percentage as whistle blowers, ms. davis having been fired from that company. her husband a former marine who among other jobs worked as a private security guard in iraq having resigned from blackwater voluntarily. let s call in the washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and columnist for politics daily.com. good evening. good to be with you. i said this was perhaps worse than most of us previously imagined but in terms of imagination we re getting into edgar allen po territory aren t we? more like rambo meets wall street when it comes to blackwater. for all of the stuff with the money which is rather important, already the state department found $55 million in
and there s another front that was recently a case in which five blackwater guards had murder charges against them, they were dismissed. the justice department really botched the prosecution, but that that decision is being appealed by the u.s. government. so there are a lot of places where blackwater still has legal liability, public relations liability, and so i m not sure this lawsuit is going to be the story that breaks its back, but blackwater is still under fire. and yet today, iraq ordered about 250 current and former employees of this company now known as z to leave the country within seven days. it sounds like they ve got the right idea. we don t. well, that might be a political ploy as well. the bush/cheney gang snowed the american public when they privatized everything. the work blackwater is contracted to do is work that has to be done. we have to protect american diplomats overseas. the contracts that blackwater and other companies get are for
two stents placed in a coronary artery after he reported chest pains as long ago as tuesday. the breaking news from new york presbyterian hospital. blackwater-gate explodes. double billing for all blackwater travel from the u.s. to the middle east. a pattern of deception on blackwater work in the gulf after katrina. and blackwater s morale welfare recreation department. it consisted of a filipino prostitute whose salary and plane tickets were charged to the united states government. your tax dollars in action. the whistle blowers and their lawsuit, which could finally bring blackwater to its knees. from their demand to televised health care reform talks to fleeing the cameras, michelle bachman, a pr stunt, a clear assault on the intelligence of the american people. well, you re not setting the bar very high in your own case, congresswoman. health america insurance
diplomats, but putting all that aside, in this lawsuit and in other previous allegations, the issue of the use of excessive force in iraq and afghanistan continue to plague blackwater. to me that still is the heart of the issue here because what we re doing, what we ve done, not we, not you and i, but what the bush/cheney administration did was to privatize this government responsibility, protecting our own diplomats and handed out to blackwater and other private security firms and has no accountability for what these guys and gals do in the field. we ve seen time and time again including that infamous episode in iraq that there s been an excessive use of force which is done in our name to protect our diplomats, theoretically, but it is something the u.s. government doesn t have much control over. that s been the core problem with blackwater and the use of other private security firms. these companies and their prevalent use in the iraq and
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