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Blackwater's Dubious Republican Connections (w/Ken Starr)

SOURCE: KOS

by markthshark
Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 05:44:07 PM PDT

When the State Department tried to shield the CEO of Blackwater USA, Erik Prince, from testifying before Waxman’s oversight committee on Tuesday, it not only displayed the ties between the two entities, it also showed just how far the State Department was willing to go to keep that relationship intact.

But those ties don’t begin to expose the deep connections between the notorious security firm and the Bush regime writ large. Nor does it reveal the links between Blackwater and other prominent Republicans, a virtual rogue’s gallery - from former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr to convicted uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

From 2001 to 2007, Blackwater employees passed effortlessly through the proverbial turnstile between the firm and the administration, several leaving important posts in the Pentagon and the CIA to take high-paying jobs at the security company.

Below are a few of those luminaries and their dubious connections with Erik Prince and Blackwater USA.
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Public oversight

What we have here is a concerted effort to evade public oversight of what our government does.
Perhaps, at some date in the future, we will discover that the Republican rubber-stamp Congress was prompted by a desire to stave off the transfer of governmental functions into the private by demonstrating that public oversight isn't "all that bad." If so, then our representatives missed the point that oversight of any kind is anathema to the autocrat.
The king is not to be questioned. That's the whole point of being king.
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