Blackwater Story, The State Dept Investigation & Illegal Weapons In Iraq (WAPO)

[kpete]

Looks like the Blackwater story is going to tie into the State Department’s auditor, who is now under investigation. From that same AP story:

In a separate development, a congressional committee is questioning how aggressively the State Department has looked into allegations that Blackwater illegally brought weapons into Iraq.

In a letter to Howard Krongard, the State Department inspector general, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Krongard impeded a Justice Department probe into claims that a “large private security contractor was smuggling weapons into Iraq.”

Although the security company was not named in the letter, several senior administration officials confirmed it was Blackwater.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091900163_2.html

[ThomWV]

1. So, now we see that Blackwater is more than just a mercenary Army

[EnviroBat]

2. Hmmm, sounds like it's time to issue some subpoenas,

that will be ignored. Do you ever feel like it's time we started taking the law into our own hands?

[Tesla]

3. We the people......

or is that against the law now???

[EnviroBat]

5. It's starting to look that way...

:scared:

[tridim]

8. Apparently yes

And claiming to be a person gets you tackled to the ground and tasered.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Waxman is going to be holding a hearing on Iraq corruption tomorrow morning at 10AM. eom

[spanone]

6. next we'll be declaring war on blackwater.....

smuggling weapons into iraq....hmmmmm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. hey, does that mean Iran and Blackwater have some deal on the side?

will we bomb their Virginia weapons training center?

[tanyev]

7. Hmmm, was Howard getting a nice kick-back on those weapon sales?

His brother Buzzy was chairman of the bank that handled the put options on 9/11.

[Oilwellian]

10. Holy shit

I didn't know they were related. How cozy.

[me b zola]

11. k&r

[Supersedeas]

12. another guns for Oil scam??

[tuckessee]

13. Illegally brought weapons into Iraq? LOL!

I suppose all the toys brought in by the Army & Marines were "legal"? By whose standards?

I'd be worried about Blackwater smuggling weapons out of Iraq into the US & other places.

[goodhue]

14. k&r

[goodhue]

15. !

[goodhue]

16. ^