Troubled Contractor Gets Afghanistan Security Deal (Xe)

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/06/27/us/politics/AP-US-CIA-Blackwater.html?_r=1&hp

CIA Director Leon Panetta says the agency has hired Xe (zee) Services -- the company once known as Blackwater -- for a $100 million contract to provide security in Afghanistan.

He says Xe underbid others by $26 million and that a CIA review concludes that the contractor has cleaned up its act.

Panetta says Moyock, N.C.-based Xe does not engage in actual CIA operations, but instead helps secure agency bases in war zones. Seven CIA employees, including security contractors, were killed in a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan, in December.



CIA chief says troubled security company wins $100 million security contract in Afghanistan
http://www.startribune.com/nation/97261749.html

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1. our government is lacking in morality department nt

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2. The CIA has a long history of hiring thugs. K&R