FBI agents speak out on injuries from faulty grenades

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

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FBI agent Donald Bain was sitting in his car in a parking lot with two other agents. He was armed and wore a Kevlar vest. He was also carrying a "flash-bang" grenade, a nonlethal weapon that emits a bright flash and deafening bang that's used to shock and disorient criminal suspects or the enemy in combat situations.

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That's when, Bain says, the flash-bang grenade in his vest just blew up.

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The company that manufactured the flash-bang grenade that Bain used is Pyrotechnic Specialties Inc., also known as PSI, based in Byron, Georgia.

Earlier this year, PSI, its chief operating officer, David Karlson, and three other defendants were indicted for fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. According to the federal indictment, PSI had a $15 million contract to supply flash-bang grenades to the military before it supplied them to the FBI.

The indictment states the company knew its flash bangs were defective and even knew how to fix those flaws, which would have cost PSI $3.72 per unit.

But, according to the indictment, many of the defective grenades the military was using were relabeled and then sold to the FBI and other local law enforcement agencies.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/17/fbi.grenade/index.html

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A soldier in Iraq also lost his hand to one of these faulty grenades.

[hvn_nbr_2]

1. Quick, George, give that company a pResidential Medal of Freedom

before it's too late and you miss the chance.

[soothsayer]

2. Karma for using them to burn down all those men, women, and children in Waco?

They might not have intended to start the fire, but they sure didn't let the firefighters put it out.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Wait a minute...

The company made them for the Army, right?
Means they got paid for them.
Then they relabeled the duds and sold them to the FBI.

So the taxpayer paid twice for garbage grenades????

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

4. Would be nice to see one of those Tasers accidentally go off..

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[bean fidhleir]

5. This shit's been going on forever. During the Revolution, merchants sold casks

of rotting - gangrenous - meat to the Army at inflated prices. The historical record has no indication that they ever suffered for what amounted to treason.

[No Elephants]

6. World

War II as well. Gripping. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_Sons