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There are too many pieces that fit. Robert Young Pelton, author of the new book, Licensed to Kill , says that an early Blackwater contract—a secret no-bid $5.4 million deal with the CIA—came in 2002 after Prince placed a call to Buzzy Krongard, who was then the CIA's executive director. Harper's, September 12, 2006 Now, Buzzy has flown the coop: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.krongard08dec08,0,7157369.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout ">December 8, 2007
"Buzzy" Krongard, 71, retired in 2004 as executive director of the CIA, the agency's third-highest position, and joined the advisory board of Blackwater USA this fall.
And so has Buzzy's brother Cookie, from the State Department, the agency that Blackwater guarded in Iraq:
"Cookie" Krongard, 66, a former international lawyer, traded accusations last month with his brother over whether he knew that his brother was serving on an advisory board of Blackwater USA, currently under investigation by the State and Justice departments.
We've got a real tag team on our hands.
And this destruction of tapes of illegal torture is a real hot potato, because it's quite plausible that Blackwater interrogators are in them.
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