Blackwater Firm Gets $120 Million U.S. Government Contract

CBS News:

CBS News has learned in an exclusive report that the State Department has awarded a part of what was formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide a contract worth more than $120 million for providing security services in Afghanistan.

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Comments

[rawresolve]

04:00 PM on 06/21/2010

Things have never been better for the War Profiteers.

[Moshe]

02:54 PM on 06/21/2010

So what exactly would these f@scist cronies have to do to get kicked on the taxpayer gravy train?

M urder; tre@son; sexu@l @ssaults? Apparently all "A Okay" . . .

[ezbreezer]

02:48 PM on 06/21/2010

They sure did a great job of security at that CIA base in Afghanistan where everybody was killed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/04/bomber-at-cia-base-in-afg_n_410996.html

[Core-Sample]

10:41 AM on 06/21/2010

I predict that Blackwater, or XE, will join the Tea Party-SArah Pailn groups and attack this country one day. Or have I watched to much 24 in the past? Hmmm...

[publicedukated]

10:43 AM on 06/21/2010

I think you have drunk too much kool aid.

[Core-Sample]

10:44 AM on 06/21/2010

you mean..purple drink?

[AlexNYC]

10:45 AM on 06/21/2010

The possibility for a military coup in the USA will not be from our own military, but from a mercenary army like Blackwater.

[gallimaufry03]

10:30 AM on 06/21/2010

Gosh I'm so glad we've been able to change so much in a couple of years. It looks like the government is an enormous moving ball of slime no one can actually either stop or divert.

Whew! What a relief. We can carry on with status quo while we learn to speak Chinese.

[Core-Sample]

10:42 AM on 06/21/2010

Maybe we should move to China, after all, that's where our jobs went.

[AlexNYC]

09:59 AM on 06/21/2010

The Bush Administration purposely privatized as many of the military roles as they could in 8 years. Blackwater became the primary go-to mercenary company, not because of their reputation or effectiveness, but because of the owner's ties to Cheney. Imagine that, a private mercenary army based in the USA. It's going to be difficult for Obama to stop using outside contractors like Blackwater at the snap of a finger. He will get a lot of reistance from the Penmtagon, who not only have incestual relations with the military industrial complex, but also with contractors like Blackwater.

People in this coutnry are concerned about the apprarent growing numbers of militia extremists. What they should really be worried about is Blackwater.

[wallyman]

11:32 AM on 06/21/2010

You write more jibberish than I do. And that's a compliment.

[Paulo1]

09:56 AM on 06/21/2010

If you voted for Obama you were probably against Mercenary thugs shooting people in the streets. But notice that it has now been two years and team Obama is still handing those Mercenaries NEW contracts.

ONE TERM OBAMA

[waynesmyer]

07:57 AM on 06/21/2010

But! But! as any fool and F-U Cheney can tell! WHAT'S GOOD FOR F-U CHENEY! BLACKWATERxE; HALLIBURTON; KBR' BECTEL' IS GOOD FOR GENERAL BULLMOOSE& AMERIKA!

[publicedukated]

10:44 AM on 06/21/2010

Crazy person, did you not see who's administration was giving them the money?

[duxguts]

02:57 AM on 06/21/2010

Notice how quiet Hillary is about this. Have to pay off those campaign expenses somehow.

[OC4Obama4Pres]

10:11 AM on 06/21/2010

Especially since she was to the right of President Obama and would have been more likely to use companies like Blackwater.

[PhilipTaylor]

01:16 AM on 06/21/2010

More of our GOVERNMENT REWARDING THE CRIMINALS at the EXPENSE of the INNOCENT!

This must change SOON!

[lizipoo]

12:42 AM on 06/21/2010

How did America make it thru WWII and the Korean War without Blackwater type entities? They say their mission is security but I think we've figured out they may be fighting some illegal little battles on their own that utilitize rules of war not authorized by our country or the U.N.

The contractors of war have no incentive to win or end a war, the contracts are too profitable. Just ask Halliburton if Xe won't answer. Oh, almost forgot, Cheney has already handled that pesky little problem of full disclosure for the secret portions of the U.S. military budget.

[JimR]

09:33 AM on 06/21/2010

"How did America make it thru WWII and the Korean War without Blackwater type entities?"

The draft.

[Winston120]

11:51 PM on 06/20/2010

The more things "change" the more they stay the same.

[KdrickDynasty]

11:40 PM on 06/20/2010

What bothers me the most, is that there is even a 120 mill contract to be given. Couldn't that money been redirected elsewhere? Is this the price we are paying to keep from sending more of our own troops over? Clarification is needed. Someone. Anyone.

[Diannehuffpost]

11:19 PM on 06/20/2010

Ugh. Blackwater is immoral.

[dollbaby]

11:18 PM on 06/20/2010

Are they the only "store" in Town? If not, than I don't understand how a company like Xe gets a job doing security when they have a "bloodied record.