Fired Blackwater Guard Found More Work

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Fired Blackwater guard found more work
Associated Press - October 5, 2007 9:35 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior House Democrat says the State Department may have withheld critical information from the Pentagon about a fired Blackwater USA guard. It's a misstep that may have allowed the man to find work in the Middle East two months after he allegedly killed an Iraqi security worker. He was drunk when he shot the guard.

In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Congressman Henry Waxman also questioned the accuracy of statements made by Blackwater's chief executive and State Department officials before a committee he chaired.

According to Waxman's letter, he and other committee members were told Andrew Moonen was fired by Blackwater after the December 24th, 2006 shooting and had his security clearance canceled.

But two months after Moonen was whisked out of Baghdad, he got a job with Defense Department contractor Combat Support Associates. Waxman is demanding answers, and also records related to the shooting.

Read more: http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7176975&nav=menu45_2

[Aviation Pro]

1. Here's my question....

...according to the CSA web site, AECOM Security Personnel, need to hold a Secret clearance. How in the hell was a habitual drunkard given a clearance?

[LiberalFighter]

8. By another drunk?

[saigon68]

13. Like the "Cin C" a buzzed up cocaine snorting freak

[Amonester]

2. Waxman is a good man. Even a little TOO good...

Waxman is demanding answers.
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Waxman is demanding records related to the shooting.
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(A Few Days Pass By...)
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Waxman is waiting for answers.
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Waxman is waiting for records related to the shooting.
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(Many Days Pass By... A Week Or Two)
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Waxman is writing a LETTER to COMPLAIN he is NOT getting ANY answer.
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Waxman is writing a LETTER to COMPLAIN he is NOT getting ANY records related to the shootings.
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(A Month, Or Six, Or Nine, Or Eleven Pass By...)
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What Was It Again Mr. Waxman Was Asking About?

(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)
(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)(Crickets)

:mad:

[Nostradammit]

3. And in the process, revealing a boatload of corruption

to the American people, yes?

At least?

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. WAXMAN IS TRYING....

BUT THE FACT OF IT IS THAT SO LONG AS THERE IS NO VETO PROOF LEVERAGE IN CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT AND HIS HENCHMEN CAN STONEWALL THE DEMOCRATS...

2008 IS THE TIME FOR THIS TO CHANGE....

MAYBE... JUST MAYBE... THE DEMOCRATS WILL QUIT BICKERING LONG ENOUGH TO PUT EDWARDS IN OFFICE

[Toots]

9. I really don't think that is the fact

When Clinton was hounded Congress did not have a veto proof majority, yet they managed to get the courts to force the Clinton Administration into turning over materials. In fact Clinton turned over so much material Republicans are still complaining about it..

[Doctor_J]

11. Yes, but the courts are packed with corrupt, ultra-right-wing GOP partisans

So this correspondence would no longer have any application.

[PDX Bara]

15. The Supremes

VERY good reason for NOT having lifetime tenures on the SCOTUS. I don't know what would be a fair process to change that but my mind does not want to wrap itself around having to consider it good for the country to have the Supreme Court packed with "ultra-right-wing GOP partisans" or ultra partisans of any kind for that matter.

[Robbien]

5. Contractor hired guard accused in '06 slaying

Source: LA Times

WASHINGTON -- Questions surrounding the State Department's handling of Blackwater-related shooting incidents intensified Friday as a private security contractor for the Pentagon, a company called Combat Support Associates, acknowledged that it had unknowingly hired a former Blackwater contractor alleged to have been involved in the Christmas Eve 2006 killing of an Iraqi guard.

The former contractor, Andrew J. Moonen, is accused of shooting a guard for Iraq's vice president after a party in the fortified Green Zone, according to congressional investigators. They said Moonen was flown out of Iraq less than 36 hours after the incident, with State Department approval.

A spokesman for Combat Support said that the company had done the required vetting of Moonen but that the incident never appeared on record and the State Department never informed the company that he was a suspect in the shooting. Moonen worked for Combat Support from February to August.

In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., questioned why Moonen was able to return to the Middle East so soon.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/259079.html

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What a bad headline.

The drunken Blackwater killer was flown out of Iraq after his killing spree and then flown back to Iraq two months later by another hired gun contractor!

[Kagemusha]

6. I thought he was flown back to Kuwait, not Iraq.

Small potatoes, I know.

[kurth]

7. The fraternity of mercenaries

What a joke.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. K&R

[burrowowl]

12. K&R

[Blue_Tires]

14. i'm at least glad blackwater is getting more light shined on them

but as i said their political connections are too strong for any real oversight or discipline

[Supersedeas]

16. fresh bodies for Dimson's pet project don't have to be sober