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...Indeed, all the recent uproar over Guantanamo prisons and black sites has obscured the fact that drone targets also don’t get court trials, judges, or hearings. (Until recently, the Obama administration used Blackwater??€”also responsible for Gitmo planning—to help organize its drone operations.) It’s hard to think of a more bizarre and troubling contradiction than shutting down the number of torture programs while stepping up the number of remote-control executions. Keeping our own boys safe is a laudable goal, but not if it comes at the cost...
...employment of Blackwater??€™s soldiers of fortune is problematic not only at those rare intervals when the contractors commit violent crimes against civilians, but always and inherently. As the architects of the war in Iraq maintained that they would respect the sovereignty of the elected Iraqi government under Nouri al-Maliki and insisted that economic motives could not be further from their minds, the massive army of legally immune private contractors that war effort came to require visibly undermined their every claim...
...infamous private contractor of security officers for the U.S. government, cease working and leave the country within six months. The order followed a horrendous display of force by Blackwater employees, in which 17 Iraqi civilians died and 24 others were wounded. A month after this order, however, Blackwater??€™s officers are still active in Baghdad and its massive fort inside the Green Zone is still humming with activity. This defiance of the Iraqi government—and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s recent push for Blackwater to leave before the six-month deadline?...
...from the military by Blackwater and firms like it, often attracted by the higher wages and comparatively lax disciplinary standards.This is not to say that the government should never contract out services to the lowest bidder in order to streamline operations or increase capabilities at home or abroad. But Blackwater??€™s contracts in Iraq alone, which total $800 million, were mostly no-bid contracts granted by the Department of Defense. Blackwater also holds similar contracts to provide its services in Afghanistan, and it worked for both the U.S. government and private individuals to protect buildings and provide relief...
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