AP, networks mum on Romney-Blackwater connection

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180014?f=h_latest

In a September 17 article, the Associated Press reported that Iraq's Interior Ministry "ordered Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to stop work and leave the country after the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy."

The article noted that "vice chairman Cofer Black, a former director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, declined to comment when reached at his Virginia home." But there was no mention in the article that Black was named the head of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's counterterrorism policy advisory group on September 13, according to a press release that day from the Romney campaign. Similarly, in their coverage of Blackwater USA, none of the networks -- ABC, NBC, or CBS -- reported Romney's connections to Black during the nightly news broadcasts on September 17.

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1. Jeez...I wonder if Fred Fielding...

attorney of Nixon fame, and Harriet Miers's replacement is till an executive?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070109-1.html

http://www.nndb.com/company/462/000105147/

Blackwater USA
http://www.nndb.com/company/462/000105147/
COMPANY
Mercenary firm founded in 1996 by former Navy SEAL and fundamentalist Christian Erik Prince. Received no-bid contracts from the Bush administration in Iraq, Afghanistan, and post-Katrina New Orleans.

Official Website:
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/
Corporate headquarters:
Moyock, NC

EXECUTIVES
Fred F. Fielding - White House Counsel
Erik Prince -Blackwater USA mercenary firm
Joseph E. Schmitz - Pentagon Inspector General, 2002-05

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
Cofer Black

Blackwater USA Counsel
Ken Starr

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2. what a creepy looking website

And their logo, ugh. They have a "Blackwater in the News" section, but they haven't updated it for this latest news......the last news is a Fox report last April.

[Dob Bole]

3. Good! I want Romney to win the GOP nomination....

Media bias is nothing new. Presenting the fundamentalist right with a Mormon candidate? Priceless.

[Grandrose]

4. Surely you jest?

It's OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ and OJ! :think:

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5. Kudos to KXMB television in North Dakota

They are about the only legitimate news source I could find that put two and two together.

http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/163300.asp

In related news, Mitt Romney has hired Blackwater's vice-chairman, Cofer Black, as one of his counterterrorism policy advisors.