Chairman Waxman Seeks Further Information on Blackwater Contracts
Today Chairman Waxman wrote to Erik Prince, Secretary Rice, and Secretary Gates, requesting further information on Blackwater’s no-bid contracts, additional incidents involving their personnel in Iraq, and payments made to the families of Iraqis killed by Blackwater.
These can be found at this link:
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1558# Letter to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince
# Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
# Letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/19/blackwater-confiscated-iraqi-planes/Blackwater confiscated Iraqi planes.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has revealed that “Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them.” Waxman today wrote to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and requested that he “provide all documents related to the attempted shipment and to explain where the aircraft are now.”