Blackwater Thought It Had a License to Kill in Iraq
Dara Lind, Vox: A Blackwater staffer literally threatened to murder a US government official in 2007 - Vox
In August 2007, Blackwater’s project manager in Iraq threatened to murder a State Department official who was investigating the company and who’d found substantial evidence of misconduct, according to a New York Times report based in part on documents from the investigation.
That [State Department] official was then ordered to leave the country by American embassy officials, who took Blackwater’s side in the disagreement. The incident occurred just weeks before Blackwater contractors opened fire on Baghdad’s Nissour Square, killing over a dozen Iraqi civilians.
While the bloody-handed criminal Dick Cheney is all over the news pontificating on Iraq, we should remember how corrupt and brutal the Blackwater mercenaries we sent there were.