Blackwater founder Erik Prince targets Democrats in memoir

[mike r]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/blackwater_chief_erik_prince_t.html

Blackwater founder Erik Prince targets Democrats in memoir

Erik Prince, chairman of the private security firm once known as Blackwater, is writing a memoir that says Democratic officials in two administrations approved of his most sensitive and controversial operations, sources close to the company, now known as XE Services, said.

To date, the former Navy commando has been solely associated with the George W. Bush administration, during which Blackwater operatives in Iraq and Afghanistan gained notoriety for their swagger and alleged involvement in civilian killings. But two sources, speaking independently, said that Prince will name Democratic officials in both the Clinton and Obama administrations who allegedly approved of clandestine intelligence operations carried out by Blackwater on behalf of the CIA and other government agencies...

Prince, who put Xe on the block earlier this year and moved to Abu Dhabi, negotiated a $42 million fine with the federal government last month to settle “hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations,” which included “illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in south Sudan and providing sniper training for Taiwanese police officers,” the New York Times reported. Now he’s rushing to complete the sale of the company and get his book published before the November elections, one of the sources said... Prince is also developing a script about himself and Blackwater, the sources said. There’s enough material for several movies.

Former Blackwater executives have been targeted in a half dozen civil suits and prosecutions, including one against five former Blackwater guards in connection with the death of 17 Iraqis during a Baghdad shootout in September 2007. Two company-affiliated guards are also being prosecuted on murder charges stemming from a 2009 shooting in Afghanistan. In the meantime, two former Blackwater employees have filed a suit alleging that Prince and his companies defrauded the departments of State and Homeland Security...

[denverbill]

1. Treasonous, war-profiteering Republican asshole. n/t

[fascisthunter]

2. this neo-nazi has no standing on anything

I suggest he walk through Iraq with sign around his neck stating who he is. Lets see how the tough-guy reacts then.

[Tsiyu]

3. +1

Real, true American, that one.

But he was instrumental in helping create the "New Iraq" in His Image.

Why wouldn't he want to live there permanently?

[fascisthunter]

6. exactly... I say we give him a one-way ticket

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I hope some of the people's families that his boys murdered get

hold of that POS!

[arbusto_baboso]

5. Awful brave of him to make these comments while he's in the UAE. Fucking cowardly piece of shit.

But then, he's a religious rightie who perpetrates war crimes, so OF COURSE he's a fucking coward. It goes with the territory.

And yes, I hope his operatives see my post and report it to him.