The top security official at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq refused to punish Blackwater security guards for making false statements about an unjustified 2005 shooting in Baghdad because he didn't want to lower the morale of those contracted to work security, according to newly released State Department records. Full Story »
Posted by Shawn McConnell
The state department was reluctant to negatively affect the morale of crazed murderers? The article is so mater of fact, it is hard to capture their degree of complicity in ok-ing the lying and implicitly the murders.
The reckless mercenary millionaires will just shift over from xe/blackwater to work for Triple Canopy. Will the state department be reluctant to negatively affect their moral-free morale?
Through a Freedom of Information Act request, USA today uncovered more evidence that the State Department refused to discipline Blackwater guards who lied during a shooting investigation in 2005. The article connects the incident to the 2007 Blackwater shootings, and clearly demonstrates lax state department oversight of Blackwater.
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