Friday, December 19, 2008

Even the State Department Recommends Dumping Blackwater


Posted by Satyam Khanna, Think Progress at 4:03 PM on December 17, 2008.


A panel commissioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for the security firm's contract not to be renewed next year.

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The AP reports that a panel commissioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after Blackwater's infamous September 2007 Baghdad shootout has called for the security firm's contract not to be renewed next year. Since the shootings, the Bush administration has repeatedly defended the firm, renewing its contract in May. Last October, the State Department granted Blackwater guards immunity after the shootings.

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Satyam Khanna is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.

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