Former CIA Agent: “What the Agency Was Doing With Blackwater Scares the Hell Out of Me”

As the cases against Prince move forward, the company continues to do a robust business with the federal government, particularly in Afghanistan. Schakowsky has called for a review of all of the companies’ current contracts, and she has called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stop awarding the company contracts. The “Obama administration should at the very least cancel and debar [Blackwater’s] present and pending government contracts,” says Nader. “Otherwise corporate crimes, privileges and immunities continue to pay and pay and pay.”

Jeremy Scahill, an independent journalist who reports frequently for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!, has spent extensive time reporting from Iraq and Yugoslavia. He is currently a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Scahill is the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. His writing and reporting is available at RebelReports.com.

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