rssWeapons Charges for Blackwater?
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:53 am
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According to the AP, federal prosecutors are exploring whether to indict former Blackwater executives for illegally stockpiling weapons at the private security giant’s Moyock, N.C., headquarters. The AP reports that those execs might have obtained “the official letterhead of a local sheriff to create a false justification for buying” 22 guns, including 17 AK-47s.
So they don’t just keep illicitly-obtained arms in Afghanistan, it appears.
Blackwater, now calling itself Xe Services, had something of a setback earlier this month after the Government Accountability Office ruled that the U.S. military had to restructure a contract Blackwater sought to train Afghan policemen worth up to $1 billion. I’ll have more on that contract soon.
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Comment posted March 23, 2010 @ 3:52 pm
As Blackwater scandals go this is pretty weak sauce. We already know that former Navy Seal billionaire Eric Prince isn't too good with “rules”. If Navy buds were illegally hooking his guys up with AK47s from government stockpiles. I guess he might want to offer them some pre deployment training.
More telling is that Blackwater executives assumed that a small rural sheriff departments alleged need for scores of foreign made high powered automatic weapons was a sufficient cover story. It shows they were not too concerned about ATF investigations under the Bush/Chaney administration. Most of their agents were probable being trained by Blackwater.
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