Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Lawyer Jack Quinn

[bananas]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/new-hire-for-blackwater-bill-clintons-lawyer/

Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Lawyer

* By Spencer Ackerman Email Author
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* July 6, 2011 |
* 10:10 am |
* Categories: Mercs

Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Now renamed Xe and owned by an investor consortium called USTC Holdings, the company is bringing Quinn — pictured left, with Rep. Joe Crowley — onto its board as an “independent director.” He’ll focus on “governance and oversight,” keeping the company out of trouble, especially with the government. USTC Holdings’ Jason DeYonker says that Quinn’s reputation for “commitment to the highest ethical standards of conduct in both the public and private sectors” makes him a great fit.

To be cynical about it, a man who gave legal advice to Clinton knows a whole lot about crisis management. Which is important, since Xe intends to keep providing security to U.S. diplomats in dangerous places – activities that, under its old leadership, led its guards into a shooting debacle that killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007.

Quinn is one of a string of board members and executives Xe brought on to draw a bright line between the old Blackwater and the new. All of them are powerful people, like ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Quinn’s lobbying clients include AT&T, old-folks association AARP and Visa.

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[Wilms]

1. Small world.

:shrug:

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Quinn..... a clinton democrat and Ed Gillispie bush republican

Quinn left the Clinton administration to co-found Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a lucrative<2> public relations firm with Ed Gillespie, a leading Republican operative.

Edward W. Gillespie is an American Republican political strategist and former Counselor to the President in the George W. Bush White House. Gillespie, along with Jack Quinn, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a bipartisan lobbying firm.

Gillespie is also the founder of Ed Gillespie Strategies, a strategic consulting firm that provides high-level advice to companies and CEOs, coalitions, and trade associations.

Gillespie served as senior communications advisor for the presidential campaign of George W. Bush,

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[OHdem10]

3. Oh the Incestuous Relationships in DC.

[valerief]

5. Birds of a feather and all. nt

[fascisthunter]

6. any questions?

[Major Hogwash]

7. Brought in to run the privatized US Army.

So they can break the Geneva Conventions and then the US government can maintain "plausible deni-ability" of any involvement.

Won't work, everyone knows who they work for.