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Old 11-18-2007, 02:12 PM
NewTeaBag NewTeaBag is offline
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Default Re: Blackwater.. it gets dirtier and dirtier!

Has anyone read the linked article?

It doesn'y implu anything close to what Midge thinks it does. EVen if your wearing MIdge "Hate all things Merican" tinted glasses.


PS Has it been a week yet?
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Old 11-18-2007, 02:18 PM
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Default Re: Blackwater.. it gets dirtier and dirtier!

IT'S LOLCAT TIMEZ!

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Old 11-19-2007, 04:57 AM
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Default Re: 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.

[/ QUOTE ]Here's what MidGe claimed : [ QUOTE ]
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.

[/ QUOTE ] Emphasis added.
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.
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