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GoLeft TV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 10:44 AM
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Erik Prince, Blackwater, and the CIA
 
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The private mercenary firm Blackwater became a household name back in 2004 when the news broke that Blackwater soldiers were murdering innocent men, women, and children in Iraq. And while a few stories made mention of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, few journalists rolled up their sleeves to uncover the truth about this powerful man. But now after 5 years of shrouding himself in mystery, Erik Prince decided to grant an interview to Vanity Fair, where reporter Adam Ciralsky uncovered some startling facts about the man in charge of thousands of mercenary troops, and he spoke with Mike Papantonio recently to talk about
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 11:18 AM
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1. K&R. So this group comes together at the end of the Clinton administration.
Several years earlier in 1993 another religious group is taken out by FBI for stock piling weapons, accused of abuse.....and other crimes.... Why does this keep repeating itself. Why hasn't the FBI taken this organization out?
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waiting Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 12:57 PM
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2. Because it has ties
Ties to people in the Department of Defense and the Pentagon. And mostly in the CIA. Some of the former heads of departments there are on staff at Blackwater/Xe Services. Not everyone in the government agrees with Obama's ideologies, they remain more in the Cheney camp. Scary, but unfortunately true.
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