BLACKWATER USA: It's a whole lot WORSE than you think.

[QuettaKid]

""GARY JACKSON, 49, Blackwater’s president, has been with the company almost from the beginning. Like Prince, he is a former SEAL, having retired as a warrant officer after 23 years in the Navy.

He is the senior executive at Blackwater’s 7,000-acre headquarters and training compound in Moyock.

Jackson makes no secret of his political leanings. As editor of Blackwater’s weekly electronic newsletter, he posted this headline at the top of the edition after the November 2004 presidential election: BUSH WINS; FOUR MORE YEARS!! HOOYAH!

He has made $9,000 in contributions to President Bush and Republican congressional candidates since 2004, according to Federal Election Commission records. Among the recipients of his donations were DeLay; Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; and Rep. Jerry Lewis, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.""


It gets much, much worse. The local paper has a HUGE multi-part series on these scum.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108028&ran=144012

[QuettaKid]

1. more

ERIK PRINCE, 37, Blackwater’s founder and chairman, has deep roots in conservative Republican politics in Michigan.

His father, Edgar Prince, turned a small die-cast shop in Holland, Mich., into a major auto parts supplier with a specialty product: a windshield visor with a lighted mirror. After his death in 1995, the company was sold for $1.4 billion. Edgar Prince was a confidant and financial backer of Gary Bauer, a conservative activist and onetime presidential candidate.

Erik Prince’s sister Betsy, a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, is married to Dick DeVos, billionaire son of the founder of marketing giant Amway and this year’s likely Republican candidate for governor of Michigan.

[Little Star]

2. They sound just like a terrorist org. to me. n/t

[The Deacon]

3. Question

Haven't seen it in any of the news stories so far - is Cofer Black (former Anti-Terrorism Coordinator at the White House) connected with these yahoos?

[QuettaKid]

9. connected? are you kidding?

COFER BLACK, 56, joined Blackwater in February 2005 as vice chairman after three decades in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department.

He was the CIA’s director of counterterrorism when al-Qaida hijackers struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

In congressional testimony in 2002, Black said the CIA thwarted plans by Osama bin Laden to kill Black when he was stationed in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1995.

In his book “Bush at War,” Bob Woodward said Black gave these marching orders to an undercover agent he dispatched to Afghanistan after the terrorist attacks: “Get bin Laden, find him. I want his head in a box.”

According to a United Press International report, Black was incensed when U.S. and Afghan forces failed to catch bin Laden at Tora Bora and complained about it anonymously in The Washington Post, prompting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to derail his CIA career. Black has denied that he was forced out of the agency.

[The Deacon]

14. Thanks

Saw some familar fingerprints...Cofer always was big on "Private Military Contractors" in various hotspots, particularly Iraq. In the old days we called this "plausible deniability."

[porphyrian]

4. Prince was a SEAL?

No wonder he's so confident wearing ruffles.

[Karmageddon]

7. LMAO!

[smacky44]

26. I believe these are the people behind the sectarian fighting in Iraq.

I think they pull a few black-bag jobs here and there blowing up Sunnis and then Shis and get the sects to fighting one another so as not to join ranks against the US.

[NanceGreggs]

Thanks for that!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Amy6627]

5. Quite the eye opener! n/t

[Imagevision]

6. Since Bush's war is Jackson's bread & Butter he should be thrilled he

successfully stole the election

[ThomWV]

8. This Is The NeoCon SS

Make no mistake about it, this is the private army of the new conservative movement that has hijacked democracy in the USA.

[QuettaKid]

10. you got that right. nt.

[walkon]

12. What king of political party

has its own armed militia? Paraphrase from G.W. Bush. 07-28-06.

[Swamp Rat]

19. THIS is the NeoCon SS:

[BelgianMadCow]

24. they were out in force to "clean up" after Katrina

and I fully agree with you.

[Blue_Tires]

11. i posted the same here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1749564

[QuettaKid]

13. please keep kicked for the latecomers. nt.

.

[spindrifter]

15. Kick.

[VOX]

The citizen army of the Roman Empire was replaced with mercenaries...

Who, of course, eventually turned against Rome and consumed it.

If nothing else, a must-read are the bios of the Blackwater top brass. The connections are astonishing and far-reaching.

Thanks for posting this, QK -- extremely disturbing in both its reality and its portents.

Kicked and recommended.

[Blue_Tires]

21. my thoughts exactly\

[VOX]

16. Self-deleted -- duplicate post. n/t

[QuettaKid]

17. I can't R but I can K. nt.

.

[many a good man]

18. Virginia Beach Pilot is an astonishingly good newspaper

I think its way better than the Washington Post. I'm going to Va Beach tomorrow so I'll have to pick up an issue.

[QuettaKid]

20. "ex-CIA" . . . .is there really any such thing? .nt.

.

[QuettaKid]

22. weekend kick.nt.

.

[Flying Dream Blues]

23. Kick nt

[BelgianMadCow]

25. Bookmarking for future reference

know your BFEE