Exclusive: Erik Prince on Blackwater’s Secret CIA Past - The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/14/exclusive-erik-prince-on-blackwater-s-secret-cia-past.html
It was the U.S. military’s most notorious security contractor—but it may also have been a virtual extension of the CIA. Eli Lake reports.
La démocratie n’existe plus en Grèce - Blackwater protège le gouvernement - MOINS de BIENS PLUS de LIENS
http://www.brujitafr.fr/article-la-democratie-n-existe-plus-en-grece---blackwater-protege-le-gouve
Un ancien diplomate grec, Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, s’est confié depuis qu’il a démissionné de son poste aux ministère grec des affaires étrangères. Notamment avec Leigh Phillips de Newstatesman et Barbara Van Haute de Millstonenews. Il prédit une insurrection sociale et des manifestations violentes en Grèce et indique que le gouvernement aurait engagé BlackWater, l’entreprise américaine militaire privée tristement célèbre pour ses activités en Irak, pour protéger le parlement. S’il semble être rassuré sur les forces armées grecques et un éventuel coup d’État, il ne mâche pas ses mots sur le gouvernement, l’UE et le futur sombre qui attend le pays.
Blackwater to pay fine to settle arms charges
http://www.aljazeera.com//news/americas/2012/08/2012888192018138.html
The list of violations includes possessing automatic weapons in the US without registration, lying to federal firearms regulators about weapons provided to the king of Jordan, passing secret plans for armoured personnel carriers to Sweden and Denmark without US government approval and illegally shipping body armour overseas.
Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents said the company, which has held billions in US security contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, repeatedly flouted US laws.
Après Blackwater Inc., après Xe, voici Academi : Lignes de défense
http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2011/12/12/apres-blackwater-inc-apres-xe-voici-academi.html
Un nouveau nom et un nouveau logo ! Ted Wright, le président de la société autrefois appelée Blackwater USA, Blackwater Worldwide puis Blackwater Inc., et ensuite Xe, a annoncé au Wall Street Journal (cliquer ici pour lire l’article) que la société allait désormais s’appeler « Academi ». […]
Si Wright a choisi le prestigieux WSJ, c’est parce qu’il veut « envoyer des signaux » aux décideurs de Washington et leur montrer que la société est en train de se refaire une virginité. Comme l’a dit Wright au WSJ : « On va essayer d’être ennuyeux », c’est à dire qu’ils vont essayer de gagner de l’argent sans faire parler d’eux, sans attirer l’attention médiatique, et de faire dans le légal et non plus dans le sensationnel. On verra bien...
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Jury rules in favor of Blackwater in lawsuit that alleged fraud, overbilling of State Dept. - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jury-rules-in-favor-of-blackwater-in-lawsuit-that-alleged-fraud-overbilling-of-state-dept/2011/08/05/gIQAHomBxI_story.html
A jury ruled Friday in favor of the security firm once known as Blackwater, rejecting two former employees’ claims that the company overbilled the State Department for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Many of the allegations in the lawsuit, first filed in 2008, were tossed out by the judge before they even got to the jury, including a claim that Blackwater billed the government for prostitutes. Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III said there was not enough evidence to support the claim.
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Burke was barred from presenting much of the evidence she sought to put in front of the jury. She had hoped to present testimony about an alleged threat a Blackwater employee made to State Department auditors. But Ellis barred the testimony because he said there was no evidence that the confrontation between the two men had anything to do with the auditors’ work.
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While the jury rejected the lawsuit’s claims of fraud and overbilling, a 2009 State Department audit found that Blackwater overbilled the State Department by as much as $55 million on a contract that produced roughly $1 billion in revenue.
Assez rigolo, le traitement de cette info par le WaPo, qui insère dans son article des éléments mettant en doute les conclusions du jury.
Voilà : (ex-)Blackwater opère officiellement en Cisjordanie occupée. Vous n’en entendrez plus parler. Dans quelques années, à la suite d’une affaire quelconque, les médias feront mine de découvrir cette présence. D’ici là, tous ceux qui prétendront que Blackwater est implanté en Palestine occupée seront taxés de théoriciens du complot.
SpyTalk - Onetime Blackwater affiliate scores U.S. contract
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2011/01/blackwater-linked_firm_scores.html
A company closely associated with the security firm once known as Blackwater has won a new State Department contract worth more than $84 million over five years.
The contract was won by International Developments Solutions, a joint venture that includes U.S. Training Center, a company until recently owned by Xe Services, which changed its name from Blackwater following a cascade of legal problems over several years.
The consortium will provide protective security in the Israel-occupied West Bank, “services that are based from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch and grabs” of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found