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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 04:29 PM Nov 2017

Blackwater Brass Rips Spineless, Worthless Jeff Sessions

Dailybeast

On the eve of Erik Prince’s testimony before the House’s Russia investigators, his former guns-for-hire are going after the attorney general—who’s caught in the Russia probe, too.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a new group of critics: former officials at Blackwater, the military contracting firm that was sold and renamed after its connection to the killings of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007.

That’s because in the ten years since those deaths in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, the Justice Department has taken an aggressive and sometimes unorthodox approach to prosecuting four former Blackwater contractors for those killings. And that aggressive stance is continuing under Sessions.

The founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is set testify before the House intelligence committee on Nov. 30 as part of its Russia probe. And that gives the dispute an additional dimension. Two key players in the unfolding Trump-Russia drama are now at odds: Sessions, who keeps remembering more and more discussions about—and meetings with—Kremlin officials; and Prince, who reportedly had a secret meeting with a Putin crony earlier this year in an attempt to open a back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump White House.
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Blackwater Brass Rips Spineless, Worthless Jeff Sessions (Original Post) Jimbo101 Nov 2017 OP
Blackwater is a truly awful company. Initech Nov 2017 #1
Didnt they change their name Sophiegirl Nov 2017 #2
Yeah after Obama took office they sold most of their assets. Initech Nov 2017 #6
don't care for either of them - Jimbo101 Nov 2017 #3
Yep the Rats are about to start fucking each other. Volaris Nov 2017 #5
Mercenaries atreides1 Nov 2017 #4

Initech

(100,079 posts)
6. Yeah after Obama took office they sold most of their assets.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 05:18 PM
Nov 2017

And started calling themselves "XE Holdings" to avoid prosecution of Bush era crimes. Real group of winners they are!

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
5. Yep the Rats are about to start fucking each other.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 05:15 PM
Nov 2017

Get the popcorn ready. I expect Sessions to get set on fire in this hearing.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
4. Mercenaries
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 05:09 PM
Nov 2017

Fight for money, they have no loyalty, and hanging them from a bridge and setting them on fire is a good start!!!

I don't like Sessions and believe that he should spend the rest of his life in a pain amplifier, but mercenaries are so low that they have to look up to see whale s**t!!!

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