(Forbes) – A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers,” researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the federal government about the alleged source of a controversial video of civilian deaths in Iraq leaked to whistle-blower site Wikileaks in April. Continue reading
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Blackwater News
(RawStory) – Scahill: Blackwater used shell company to defraud US government
Blackwater set up a shell company to “defraud the government” by leading it to believe it wasn’t contracting with the notorious security contractor, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill says. Read More Here
(WashingtonIndependent) – Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police
Senate Inquiry Shows Contractor Signed for Rifles Using ‘South Park’ Alias Read More Here
(RevolutionaryPolitics) – Blackwater on Trial: Murders, drugs & alcohol
American security guards charged with killing two civilians in Afghanistan had criminal records, a Senate committee has heard. They were guilty of assault, battery and drug-taking in the past. The men were in Afghanistan with a subsidiary of the private security firm Blackwater, previously accused of murdering civilians in Iraq. View Video Here
Video: Exposed – American Police Force Is A Blackwater Front Group
UPDATE: The American Police Force website page which clearly states that they run the Blackwater-controlled U.S. Training Center is back online here. Continue reading
MSM: Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
(Reuters) – By most counts, the death toll of U.S. soldiers in America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stood at 5,157 in the second week of September. Add at least 1,360 private contractors working for the U.S. and the number tops 6,500. Continue reading
Report: CIA hired Blackwater contractors for secret hit squad
(RawStory) – The specter of private contractors carrying out assassinations on behalf of the US government has been raised in a New York Times article that says the CIA hired contractors from security firm Blackwater to help carry out its recently-revealed hit squad program. Continue reading
AF-PAK War And The Battle For Oil
When announcing his new Afghanistan and Pakistan policy on March 27, 2009, Obama vowed “to disrupt and dismantle” the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to “prevent their return to either country in the future.” But who are the Taliban? Any Afghan or Pakistani who resists the US-led occupation. Continue reading
Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents
(NaturalNews) – To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. “They’re good for you!” say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what’s in those vaccines. There’s a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them. Continue reading
Blackwater/Xe: How did it happen that the U.S. came to rely on mercenaries?
A cagey professor used to provoke his students’ curiosity by asking, “Does anything bother you about that?” Since the private “security” contractor Blackwater (re-branded last February as “Xe”) hit the news last fall for allegedly killing unarmed civilians in Iraq, the professor’s question has led me to a more important question for a constitutional republic: When, why, and how did the United States of America become the land of mercenaries? Continue reading
U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse – Report
Half of the personnel the US has working on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors. A new report reveals how much of a rip-off this system has been to US taxpayers. Continue reading
Murtha’s Nephew Got Defense Contracts
Robert Murtha said he is not at liberty to discuss in detail what his company does, but for four years it has subsisted on defense contracts, according to records and interviews. He said Murtech’s 17 employees “provide necessary logistical support” to Pentagon testing programs that focus on detecting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, “and that’s about as far as I feel comfortable going.” Continue reading
Video: Minnesota Prepares For Martial Law?
Editor’s note: We have no way to verify the legitimacy of this video, however the allegations make sense. Continue reading