Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
Not long after the security firm’s top manager in Iraq told a State Department investigator “that he could kill” him, the inquiry was abandoned. Weeks later, the firm’s guards killed 17 civilians in Iraq.
Hasnain says:
"Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports."
It's sad that investigative journalism like this is getting rarer and rarer these days.
It also doesn't help that Risen, a critically lauded Pulitzer prize winning journalist, is facing jail time for not disclosing his sources for his book.
Posted on 2014-06-30T16:52:33+0000