Blackwater.. it gets dirtier and dirtier!

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Has anyone read the linked article? It doesn'y imply anything close to what Midge thinks it does.

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Here is a link to an article from the New York Times that brings to light more and more Machiavellian and nepotist aspects of US companies [such as Blackwater] providing so-called "security" in Iraq.

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And here's from the linked article :

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Alvin Krongard, 71, who left a $4 million-a-year job in investment banking to serve in top posts at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1998 to 2004, played what he describes as a routine role as an intermediary in helping Blackwater get its first big security contract from the agency for guards in Afghanistan in 2002.
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"We have now learned that... [Alvin] Krongard, serves on Blackwater’s advisory board,” Representative Henry A. Waxman declared, saying the inspector general had “concealed this apparent conflict of interest.”
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Events might suggest that [Blackwater CEO] Mr. Prince chose to recruit Alvin Krongard to curry favor with [his brother] Howard Krongard and blunt any inquiry into Blackwater.

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That was for Macchiavellian. As to nepotism, here's more from the linked article:


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Howard Krongard, 66, a former general counsel at the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche who took the State Department job in 2005, was grilled this week by House Democrats. They accused Mr. Krongard ... of ... improperly interfering in investigations, including a Justice Department inquiry into allegations of weapons smuggling by Blackwater employees.

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If anything, MidGe was too kind: these are not "aspects"; these are the real thing. And your tea bag is full of holes.

[bills217]

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You can't get dirtier than black.

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racist imo

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predictable imo.

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Downplaying racism? Racist imo

[owsley]

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You can't get dirtier than black.

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racist imo

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predictable imo.

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Downplaying racism? Racist imo

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no way what he said was racist. which would make u a reverse racist, lol

[bills217]

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which would make u a reverse racist, lol

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There is no such thing - didn't you read the Delaware Recommended Reading thread? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]