What is Blackwater's Role in the 2008 Presidential Race?

Anyone who knows anything about the career of Cofer Black, who's the number two man at Blackwater, the head of their new private intelligence company called Total Intelligence Solutions, none of the things that Mitt Romney is saying will come as a surprise. For much of the past year, Cofer Black, who currently remains the number two man, the vice chairman of Blackwater Worldwide, he has been Mitt Romney's senior advisor on counterterrorism. And so, when ... Full Story »

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Bruce Freeman
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by Bruce Freeman - Oct. 1, 2008

Blackwater = Black Shirts; same thing. A gun-toting bunch with no accountability to the citizenry.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The privatizing of military operations and the failure at this point to have legal control over these paid for murder cowboys is a crucial question for the rule of law. The item the Mitt the Mormon seems to love torture according to the Book of Blackwater is a very disturbing aspect of who can run for president and on what outrageous policies. The positions of McCain is touched on, but not the views of candidates other than these two.

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