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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: HRC's State Dept contracted w/Blackwater while BW was being prosecuted for Libya arms deals [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)54. You're being told to be a good German
of a 21st Century American sort. But, some of us find that difficult to do. Congratulations on retaining your sanity. Many haven't.
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leveymg
Mar 2016
OP
How much did Prince donate to the Opelousas' Charity Ball - i.e., the Clinton Foundation
yourpaljoey
Mar 2016
#9
The fix is in with corporate media. There's not enough time to get the truth out to enough people.
RiverLover
Mar 2016
#10
The fix may indeed be in but there seems to be a continual drip, drip, drip of information on this
Samantha
Mar 2016
#43
More wingerish sounding noise, this kind immunizes her against the rest of the RW noise machine caus
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#5
Now that we know that Erik Prince was one of Hillary's buddies, it is. BFFF. Get with the program!
leveymg
Mar 2016
#51
This is insane. I'm only old enough to be voting in my 3rd presidential election this year but
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2016
#52
If you really want to be appalled, read '07 Salon article by Blumenthal about Blackwater in Iraq.
leveymg
Mar 2016
#61
Thanks again, I will definitely read this. I'm pretty sure I know 'why' to your questions but
polly7
Mar 2016
#72
So now long-respected journalists like Jeremy Scahill are wingers and Blackwater is good?
Armstead
Mar 2016
#55
Most of this stuff was long before Hillary was SOS..Bush Cheney stuff. Carry over to Clinton SOS.
Jitter65
Mar 2016
#6
No, these contracts with the State Dept continued under Hillary while BW was under new criminal
leveymg
Mar 2016
#7
Prince's Libya ITAR problems started under Clinton, who created the opportunity for BW to play there
leveymg
Mar 2016
#53
Clinton was not obligated to continue employing BW and she certainly wasn't obligated to
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2016
#46
And of course the founder of blackwater is under investigation for spying for the Chinese
NWCorona
Mar 2016
#8
This is the outfit that has been involved in child sex trafficking in Afghanistan
Ash_F
Mar 2016
#17
Yep, yet ANOTHER reason I will NEVER vote for HRC. If younguys push her to be our nom, then
peacebird
Mar 2016
#26
Wish the Inspector General was able to look into that except there was no IG to look...
Octafish
Mar 2016
#35
Thank you for that specific data on Prince's contribution to Bill and Hillary's pay to play
leveymg
Mar 2016
#49
This reminds me of a little blip in the 'news' about Blackwater that I saw...
Peace Patriot
Mar 2016
#39
Frontier Services Group (FSG) kind of reminds me of this outfit, and its chief security contractor
leveymg
Mar 2016
#89
Can you imagine the trouble this guy would be getting into without things to keep him busy?
leveymg
Mar 2016
#92