By Jeremy Scahill If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think again. With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the B...
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, September 6, 2007 By DavidMcLemore / The DallasMorningNews dmclemore #64;dallasnews.com The Border Patrol runs glossy Web videos and a...
By MatthewLee, AP Posted: 2007 09 22 14:04:08 Filed Under: Iraq News WASHINGTON (Sept. 22) Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the priva...
JeremyScahill on Blackwater http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/transcript1.html October 19, 2007 Bill Moyers talks journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1 BILL...
The notorious security contractor has plans for a military style complex near the U.S. Mexico border. Critics worry the firm's "mercenary soldiers" could join the...
by MichaelRoston November 1, 2007 01:22 PM The congressional vice grip is tightening on Blackwater and other contracted defense firms. Next Wednesday, Rep. Jan Sc...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 31, 2007 1:59:11...
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, November 9, 2007 WASHINGTON #8212; A group of Democratic lawmakers wants all contractors working as ...
Blackwater Goes to Mexico By JOHN ROSS November 9, 2007 If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily armed operatives are forced to pull...
by Tom Griffin America's use of corporate mercenaries in Iraq is under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad on Sept. 16. Employee...
06:36 AM CST on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The State Department's mismanagement of security contractors in Iraq has had deadly consequences, and thankfully the Pen...
Kent Hoover Washington Bureau Chief The Small Business Administration has found itself in the middle of the controversy over Blackwater USA, the private security ...
Tarnishing Iraq mission by covering up for Blackwater November 06, 2007 When it comes to the Bush administration's definition of "sovereignty," "immunity" and "ac...
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 #8212; Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilia...
By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON Wednesday, November 7 A little noticed court case in Florida threatens to undermine the arrangement under which some 150,000 private co...
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 In a Democracy Now! interview, Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls for the withdrawal of all guards with the firms Blackwater, DynCorp and Trip...
Jeremy Scahill posted November 8, 2007 (November 26, 2007 issue) Jan Schakowsky is one of the few members of Congress who have made confronting the radically priv...
Joseph Neff Friday, November 9, 2007 The president and CEO of Dyncorp did some corporate trash talking in a recent teleconference with investors and analysts. In ...
November 9, 2007 01:26 PM By Michael Rosten A group of House members and one Senator came together on Tuesday to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act," a ...
Can Firm Get New Pentagon Work After Iraq Incident? By AUGUST COLE November 13, 2007; Page A6 A Defense Department contract involving antidrug training missions m...
Washington Dispatch: Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to...
Prosecuting private security contractors for shooting Iraqi civilians might be impossible. By Jeremy Scahill November 15, 2007 Federal agents investigating the Se...
BAGHDAD (AFP) #8212; Iraqi soldiers detained a group of private security guards after they opened fire in central Baghdad on Monday wounding a woman and rekindli...
Third world warriors fight U.S. wars for dollars a day Honduran soldier was among thousands who stood guard over Baghdad embassy, but couldn't legally enter Uni...
By Jeremy Scahill from the December 24, 2007 issue Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressi...
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cited Cofer Black, the former head of Counterterrorism at the CIA, as his advisor on issues involving prisoner interro...
January 10, 2008 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON #8212; The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Ira...
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not #8220;rule out #8221; using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide i...
by JEREMY SCAHILL from the March 17, 2008 issue Update from Jeremy Scahill: A day after this story went live on TheNation.com, Senator Hillary Clinton, whose st...
By Noah Shachtman EmailFebruary 29, 2008 10:42:00 AM Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Departm...
By Robert Brodsky rbrodsky #64;govexec.com March 3, 2008 Sen. Hillary Clinton has signed on as the first co sponsor of a bill that would ban the use of all Stat...
by JEREMY SCAHILL posted online on March 18, 2008 Hillary Clinton has just become the most significant US political figure to come out in favor of banning Black...
by Sandra Svoboda Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn't seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern polic...
by Matthew Schwarzfeld July 18, 2008 10:06 am EDT Tags: Barack Obama, Blackwater, John McCain, Military Contractor Abuse Scandal Senators Barack Obama and John...
POLITICS US: One Fifth of Iraq Funding Paid to ContractorsBy William FisherNEW YORK, Aug 14 (IPS) As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors...
* NOVEMBER 19, 2008 Iraq Pact Forces Security Contractors to Confront Work Without Immunity By AUGUST COLE The new agreement covering the U.S. military presence...
U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq Blackwater Losing Security Role; Other Jobs Being Converted to Public Sector By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Wri...
AP ENTERPRISE: Blackwater out of Iraq? No, not yet By MATTHEW LEE and MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writers Matthew Lee And Mike Baker, Associated Press Writers ...
Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq Published: May 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM Chairman of Blackwater USA Erik Prince is sworn in prior to testifying before a House Over...
By Jeremy Scahill August 14, 2009 Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State...
Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries The McCain Conference on Ethics and Military Leadership appears to be ahead of the senator...
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many m...
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StopOutsourcingSecurityAct 111TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S.XXX To phase out the use of private military contractors. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ...