Oversight panel chronicles alleged Blackwater abuses
CBS News
10/01/07
Democratic aides on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are experts at framing a hearing, and they didn’t pull any punches for Blackwater USA. The committee released a 15-page memo Monday afternoon, on the eve of a Tuesday hearing about Blackwater, chronicling a string of alleged abuses by the security firm in its work for the State Department since 2003. Blackwater has been involved in 195 ‘escalation of force’ incidents since 2005 in which guards for the firm fired shots, according to the report. Contractors for the firm fired the first shots in an overwhelming majority of those incidents. Documents released by the State Department also suggest the agency allowed Blackwater to fly a contractor out of Iraq shortly after that contractor, during a drunken episode, shot a guard for the Iraqi vice president...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
10/01/07
Democratic aides on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are experts at framing a hearing, and they didn’t pull any punches for Blackwater USA. The committee released a 15-page memo Monday afternoon, on the eve of a Tuesday hearing about Blackwater, chronicling a string of alleged abuses by the security firm in its work for the State Department since 2003. Blackwater has been involved in 195 ‘escalation of force’ incidents since 2005 in which guards for the firm fired shots, according to the report. Contractors for the firm fired the first shots in an overwhelming majority of those incidents. Documents released by the State Department also suggest the agency allowed Blackwater to fly a contractor out of Iraq shortly after that contractor, during a drunken episode, shot a guard for the Iraqi vice president...
http://tinyurl.com/2wkhqw
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
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