We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA "Contractors

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Some parts of Blackwater’s clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy.

Now we learn (unsurprisingly) that Blackwater offered “foreign” operatives to work on the CIA assassination program.

Blackwater told the CIA that it “could put people on the ground to provide the surveillance and support — all of the things you need to conduct an operation,” a former senior CIA official familiar with the secret program told The Associated Press.

If that’s true, those foreign individuals would appear to have been privy to information that vice president Cheney and other US officials deemed not appropriate for Congressional ears, not to mention oversight.

In light of all of these developments, it is important to remember how Erik Prince essentially hired George W Bush’s top people from the CIA’s Directorate of Operations to create his own private CIA,

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