Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?

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by Doug Greer - Sep. 28, 2009

Blackwater has a $217 million security contract through the State Department in Iraq—a contract just extended indefinitely by the Obama administration. It also holds a $210 million State Department “security” contract in Afghanistan, running through 2011 and another multimillion-dollar contract with the Defense Department for “training” in Kabul. This is on top of Blackwater’s clandestine work for the CIA, including continuing work on the drone bombing campaign in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This also does not take into account Blackwater’s lucrative domestic work training law enforcement and military forces in the United States at the company’s compounds in North Carolina, California and Illinois, nor the private “security” work it does for entities like the International Republican Institute, nor the work it does in training “faith-based organizations.” Nor does it include the contracts doled out to Prince’s private CIA, Total Intelligence Solutions, which works for foreign governments and Fortune 500 corporations.

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