Anyone who reads this blog probably has now probably heard about Blackwater, the private military firm from the US whose employees recently killed 17 civilians in Iraq. Frontline did a report last year entitled Private Warriors which covered the role these private military personnel play, the total clusterfuck Blackwater caused after 4 of their men were killed in Falujah, and how they operate with little to no oversight. What they didn’t talk about was how fucking scary Blackwater actually is.
Jeremy Scahill released a book back in February entitled Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army and is probably the leading expert on Blackwater. He was on Real Time with Bill Maher on the weekend and what he said really shocked me. Here’s the clip…
Boris mentioned to me that he was also on Bill Moyer’s Journal a few weeks ago. The Moyer’s piece is quite interesting as it shows how Eric Prince, Blackwater’s CEO and founder (and “Christian Supremist” as Scahill calls him), managed to pull off a PR blitz that fooled just about everyone who interviewed him and failed to point out the total lies he’s managed to spin. I’d highly recommend watching the segment.