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WASHINGTON (AP/MSNBC) — Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company over allegations they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at the company’s North Carolina headquarters.
Senior Justice Department officials are reviewing a draft indictment against former president Gary Jackson, former Blackwater lawyer Andrew Howell, and a third man who used to work at the firm’s armoury. A decision is not expected until at least next month.
The potential charges stem from a raid conducted by federal agents in 2008 that seized 22 weapons, among them 17 AK-47s. Multiple law enforcement officials familiar with the case said investigators are trying to determine if Blackwater obtained the official letterhead of a local sheriff to create a false justification for buying the guns.
Federal law prohibits private parties from buying fully automatic weapons registered after 1986, but does let law enforcement agencies have them.
Xe spokesman Mark Corallo said the company has “fully co-operated with this investigation and we will have no further comment.”
In a 2008 interview with the AP, Jackson and other Blackwater executives said the company provided the local Camden County sheriff’s office a place to store weapons, calling the gesture a “professional courtesy.”
“We gave them a big safe so that they can store their own guns,” Jackson said at the time.
KABUL (Mother Jones) – Unauthorized weapons stockpiles, reckless shootings, steroid-injecting personnel–tales from the security firm’s latest Afghanistan outrage.
Paravant, which, in the fall of 2008 inked a subcontract with Raytheon to train Afghan National Army troops. The work, worth about $20 million over two years, was carried out under a 10-year, $11.2 billion contract known as Warfighter FOCUS. Paravant, one of numerous subsidiaries incorporated by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, was created solely for the purposes of this subcontract. According to Brian McCracken, a former Paravant vice president who now works for Raytheon, Blackwater and Paravant were “one and the same.”
U.S. Training Center - Xe Services - in Moyock, N.C.
And of course military and intelligence agencies as well.
But…what is Xe/Blackwater/Paravant/etc? Exactly?
Where does “Xe/Blackwater/Paravant/etc.” end and “Law Enforcement/Military/Intelligence” end?
Lemme see…
Hmmmmmm….
Blackwater was called into New Orleans to “keep the peace” after Katrina, right?
I guess it’s a branch of law enforcement.
It is certainly an adjunct of our military and intelligence services.
So, what the hell. Let’s not only let them stockpile automatic weapons, let’s give ’em some fighter planes, a few bombers, maybe a destroyer or two and some WMDs while we’re at it.
And on and on it goes.
This is the real Bush legacy.
A cancer inside of our own borders.
Metastasizing as we speak.
Our own supposed immune system gone batshit nuts.
Nice.
Brought to you by…watch this:
Now go to :40 and check out the look of pure disgust on Bush’s regal Roman features as he prepares to go deal with some distasteful mud people in the name of the ongoing Imperial Corporate Hustle.
What was it his mama said?
Oh yes.
Regarding the regrettable…but oh so necessary, of course… casualties of her son’s war for oil.
The peanut didn’t fall far from the jar.
Bet on it.
It makes me ashamed to be an American, this shit.
No…ashamed to be a human being.
Disgusting.
“Xe” indeed.
Our own Borg.
Bet on that as well.
They believe that.
And they continue to pursue their agendas.
Under cover of darkness.
Whaddaya wanna bet that this “Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company” thing goes quietly away?
Whaddaya wanna bet somebody has something on somebody really important?
These people know where the bodies are buried.
Hell…they’re the ones who killed ’em.
AG
P.S. This goes right to the point of my recent “The Teabaggers and The Truth Of The Matter” post here.
Xe?
That’s the military arm of the Tea Party.
Yup.
It’s coming, folks.
It’s coming…
W/Sarah Palin as the new Betsy Ross.
Nice.
Ah jes’ cain’t wait!!!
Oh, come on! He wasn’t wiping his hand, he was caressing Clinton’s arm.
Riiiiiight…
AG