Blackwater to guard feds investigating Blackwater.
By on Oct 3rd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Blackwater to guard feds investigating Blackwater.
On Monday, the FBI announced that it would be sending “a team to Iraq to investigate the role of Blackwater USA in last month’s shoot-out in Baghdad that killed 11 Iraqis.” Today, the New York Daily News reports that the investigators “will be protected by bodyguards from the very same firm” that they are investigating. “What happens when the FBI team decides to go visit the crime scene? Blackwater is going to have to take them there,” a senior U.S. official said.
(HT: TPMmuckraker)
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We first heard that Iraq was wrong when their government accused Blackwater of killing innocent civilians. Why? Because Blackwater said they were wrong.
Now, we will be treated to a Blackwater-assisted investigation of Blackwater. Is there a pattern here?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:46 pmI can’t even find anything to type about this. Surreal. The lunatics truly have taken over the asylum. The foxes keep the keys to the henhouse.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pmIn Washington this week, all eyes are on the Blackwater hearings. But the relentless focus on potential atrocities committed by unaccountable, grotesquely overpaid private security firms in Iraq and Afghanistan obscures the larger issue for the United States. That is, mercenary forces simply should have no place in the national defense of an American democracy.
For the details, see:
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm“The Meaning of Blackwater.”
I’d be reaaaalllly askeeert to have Blackwater guarding me as I’m investigating Blackwater…
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 pmThis is beyond satire.
“Gee, folks…I sure do hope these here automatic weapons don’t go off by accident…by your accounts, we can’t seem to keep from firing these things off and killing innocent civilians in Iraq. It’d be a real shame if there was another “incident” like that here…”
<cue Godfather music>
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:51 pmOnce again, I have to ask, where’s Condi?
She’s the CEO of the State Dept. She should be all over this. Is this proof she’s a ‘token minority’ in Bush’s reichwing regime?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:52 pmOnce again, I have to ask, where’s Condi?
She’s the CEO of the State Dept. She should be all over this. Is this proof she’s a ‘token minority’ in Bush’s reichwing regime?
Comment by Zimzone
Dr. Rice is a university professor and an expert in Russion affairs. She has no business being anywhere near a State department incident. She has no business being in the State department at all. She was chosen for reasons none of us will ever understand. She certainly cannot offer anything of substance concerning conflicts in the ME. Just like everywhere else in the Bush administration: the wrong person, doing the wrong things, for all the wrong reasons.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pmAs the Dogfather stated yesterday,
‘throw Bush out with the Blackwater’.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pmmargaret ~ Damn, I hate it when this thing goes off on full automatic by itself. ~
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:00 pmDo you think the investigators will ask their bodyguards to do a re-enactment? Perhaps it’s all an elaboorate plan–the FBI will secretly have somebody roll a car toward their convoy to see what happens.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:00 pmChicken Coop Meet the Fox
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 pmFBI investigator …
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 pmWhy do our accomodations have all these feathers on the ground?
I’m smelling another Pat Tillman moment……
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm“Come into my parlor, said the lady spider to her suitor;
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm…and bring that fly with you.”
Comment by Zimzone — October 3, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
Wow, Zim — thanks for the props! Yesterday, I was actually talking about Dumbya’s veto of SCHIP (he’s throwing the babies out with the Blackwater), but the sentiment fits here too…
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pmThe story didn’t mention that General BETRAYUS will be writing the final report on this issue and will be reporting his findings to the Imperial President.
That makes perfect sense to me in the Bush Bizzarro world that we now live in.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:06 pmDogfather,
Thanks for letting me reiterate your point.
Progressives need to come up with more 2-3 word slams that arouse the sheeple. Neoturds have it down to a science, and have milked it like a goat named Rush.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:09 pmShe was chosen for reasons none of us will ever understand.
Comment by StratRat — October 3, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
She was chosen because she is Bush’s girlfriend. Remember, this is the woman who spends many weekends at Camp David “with the Bushes”, and who once referred to Bush as her husband during a press conference. I can imagine that someone who is actually married and has a husband might conceivably make this slip, since they have reason to say “my husband” from time to time. But for a woman who has never been married to say it surely indicates something significant, most likely that Condi sits around dreaming about Bush being her husband.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:11 pmAh, the armed fox assisting in access to the hen house. Makes perfect Christ666ian conserv666ative sense.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:17 pmBut for a woman who has never been married to say it surely indicates something significant, most likely that Condi sits around dreaming about Bush being her husband.
Comment by VerbalKint
Or possibly the “name without the game”: Condi gets to influence and control and have stature, without the gritty work of actually having to be in, and work, a relationship.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:33 pmThis is echoed in her detached manner as National Security Adviser, and now as Secretary of State.
She’s the politically correct face in the pretty black boots who struts around spewing mealy mouthed hypocritical condemnations.
Big friggin’ deal. There’s no conflict of interest here. For instance, it’s not as if someone like, say the vice president, went on a hunting trip with a sitting justice of The Supreme Court when there was a case before the court involving the vice president’s “former” company. Now that would be a clear conflict of interest.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:34 pmOh, wait….
Nice way to keep the FBI investigators in line so they wont tell the truth. If one thinks of talking the Blackwater hired killers will shoot and ask questions later. Now I know why Vitter was smiling so much while he was in his 10 hour visit to Iraq. Blackwater contract killers were protecting him while he had sex with an Iraq prostitute and Vitters didn’t have to pay.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pmNow has anyone checked if Senator Craig made a visit because he knows the code. This is a waste of taxpayers money as nothing will come from it. The head of the FBI has already lied under oath and got away with it so what’s another lie going to do nothing.
Who is going to be dumb enough to take the job of investigator?
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:13 pmThat will guarantee a ‘Fair and Balanced’ investigation as long as the investigators want to see their families again.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 pmBlack Water (aka sewage) wouldn’t want them to have any kinda accident or something.
Don’t it make ya proud?
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:21 pmHmmm let’s just suppose that Blackwater is really just intending to protect these folks… I thought that FBI agents could handle their own security. Aren’t they supposed to carry guns and know how to use them? Don’t they have marksmen and paramilitary specialists that can be sent with them? We also have lots of troops there. Can’t they protect the armed FBI agents? Haven’t we been “standing up” a bunch of Iraqis to also reduce the risks? If it is so dangerous in Iraq in spite all that surging and all those troops that armed and trained FBI agents need private security things must have gone from bad to worse.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:28 pmWell I am impressed your just know we can trust Blackwater to be fair and honest. Since the owner was a heavy contributor and long time ally with Georgie.
October 3rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm