blackwater has been in hot water after a number of scandals including the unprovoked killing to the rocky civilians in two thousand and seven you know order to recover to rebrand from bad rap blackwater has changed its name several times and created a web of more than thirty shell companies or subsidiaries and continued to getting lucrative contracts despite being under intense criticism for reckless conduct so monsanto hired one of those companies called total intelligence solutions which belongs to blackwater's owner and founder erik prince monsanto says they did nothing wrong by having higher total intelligence solutions which quote provided monsanto security group with reports about it and exhibit a for groups that could pose a risk to the company its personnel and its global operations end of quote monsanto denies having the program blackwater's possible infiltration into the anti-male center works but according to documents secured by the nation magazine jeremy scahill monsanto was willing to pay a sizable sum up to five hundred thousand dollars for black border agents to infi

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because blackwater faced charges ranging from atrocities in iraq to abandoning the families of its killed workers eyes of vehemently defended the company instead of the workers during february two thousand and seven blackwater hearings conducted by the house oversight and government reform committee attacked several women whose family members all blackwater employees had been killed by iraqi insurgents and dragged through the streets of pollution after the women testified isis said that although i don't think your testimony today is particularly germane to the oversight of this committee and deeply sorry for the losses that you had one question i have is the opening statement who wrote it's. right it's all a conspiracy in his world i saw also played an integral role in the bush administrations and then l. of attorney general alberto gonzales as politically motivated removal of eight united states attorneys and in the case of one of those removed attorneys caraway am i so allegedly helped to create the misinformation that was given as an excuse to the public after lemond been dismissed the

battlefield i was joined earlier for an in-depth interview investigative journalist and author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so here are some on the street if the u.s. that were that called they say no obama and the wars he drew down the troops but your book and film dirty wars clearly show that that is very far from the truth to talk about the concept of dirty wars and how.

truths and that's why jeremy scahill is of workers so crucial is the same journalist who blew open blackwater's criminal. and now he's delving into even more dangerous territory to expose the scope of u.s. covert wars with his new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. it's hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror with the name of the military but i knew i was missing the story there was another war in the shadows. and i agree. to see the two men in the guest house for the first people could. be. more there than in others and on the other you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body was very lonely were these men that stormed into those homes and why would they go to such a horrifying lie. to cover up the. sort of talk about the evolution of u.s. foreign policy in the mindset that the world is a battlefield i was joined earlier for an in-depth interview with investigative journalist and author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so some of the street if the us that

dealing with such a government that you couldn't bring in blackwater, so the answer was the militiash is who we outsourced it to, instead of keeping diplomatic security in-house that was funded. >> that's what we need to do. >> this is a tax on u.s. diplomatic targets by administration from 1970 to 2010. put this in a little bit of context, okay? we are seeing, in the broad scheme of things, right, very low historic levels of attacks at targets. it's unclear that embassy security on the whole in a macrosense is deficient. and the thing, eric, i couldn't help but notice today, to the extent there is a latest plot point in the scandal, it comes down to second-guessing a call presumably made by the africom commander as to whether to send out a special ops team at the moment he made the call not to send it. i don't believe the general is above second-guessing, but i do have a little humility myself about whether i'm the right person to make that call nine months later in the midst of what is a chaotic battle scene about whether to send a helicopter or not. >> and panetta talked about tha

author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so yes i'm on the street if the u.s. that were they'd probably say no obama ended the war as he drew down the troops but your book and film dirty wars clearly show that that is very far from the truth to talk about the concept of dirty wars and how expansive the shadow war program is across the world are part of the reason why i call the dirty wars is because the obama administration has really tried to give the impression that it's waging a clean war and of course there's no such thing as a clean war but also this idea that the only people are being that are being killed are members of al qaeda or terrorists that want to do harm to the united states and that the drone strikes are surgical and clean and that the number of civilians killed is actually very small but the other reason i call the dirty wars is because i feel like we're moving back to an era like the one nine hundred eighty s. when the u.s. was fueling all of these dirty wars in central america in nicaragua honduras el salvador and elsewhere i mean the under

truths and that's why jeremy scahill of work is so crucial is the same journalist who blew open blackwater's criminal code ball and now he's delving into even more dangerous territory to expose the scope of u.s. covert wars and his new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror what's the name of this tour but i knew i was missing the story there was another war in the shadows. to see the two men in the guest house for the first people killed. in the. you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body. were these men that stormed into the home and why would they go to such horrifying lengths to cover up their actions so to talk about the evolution of u.s. foreign policy in the mindset that the world is a battlefield i was joined earlier for an in-depth interview investigative journalist and author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so you know some on the street if the u.s. that were they'd probably say no obama added the wars he d

. >> it is blackwater diving and they are searching the bottom of the ponds with their hands. obviously, in these water conditions they can not see where they are going is tenders on the shore will guide them. >> at the same time, authorities knocked on more than 300 doors asking neighbors if they saw anything suspicious around the time she was killed but nothing turned up. the only witness so far, the 12-year-old step brother who was home alone with her and found her after she had been brutally stabbed, and described her killer as a tall man with long gray hair. a neighbor who said she also saw the man run from the home has since taken back that claim. people living in this tight knit community are waiting, hopeful the continuing search for more evidence will bring deputies closer to an arrest. >> we are all concerned. i have three girls. they are little. they used to play outside. now they don't. >> on friday, investigators took knives from the home where she was murdered but will not say to they were used in the crime. we are waiting for an update today at 1:30 press briefi

he is talking about one of the top head of blackwater.ou in -- let let us know you are in a house standing up for independent media. make that call. make it now. we cannot do this without you. the book is yours for $150. the d d four $100. $100.e dvd for americans are not only at greater risk, but changing as a nation. jeremy scahill puts a human face on these casualties of wars that are now victims of policy. secret cruise missile attacks and drone strikes and a whole class of people branded as suspected militants. through his brave reporting, jeremy scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the u.s. government struggles to keep hidden. just the pictures alone that jeremy has access to the shares in this book. we ask you to call right now. i do not know if you can see these pictures. there are even in color, actually. ine is a picture of jeremy afghanistan. he is walking with survivors of a deadly u.s. night raid conducted in february, 2010. it said, the pregnant women were killed, along with an afghan police commander and severa

. >> blackwater diving and searching the bottom of the ponds with their hands. they obviously cannot see where they are going so people on the shore holding the rope guide them through the water. >> investigators knocked on doors asking neighbors if they saw anything suspicious around the time she was killed. leila fowler died being stabbed inside her family home on saturday. her step brother found her and described her killer as being tall with long gray hair and a witness who said she saw the man has taken back the claim. in the newsroom for abc7 news. >> san jose police are pleased with how cinco de mayo celebrations went despite clearing the street because of a few troublemakers when a fight break out between two groups last night with bottles tossed. the fight quickly escalated. >> everyone was happy and in a good mod having a good time but each year it is a problem the someone always has to ruin the fun. >> police say extra officers on patrol were able to clear the street before anyone got hurt. no arrests were made. >> pg&e will hear what the penalty shou

. >> it's blackwater diving. and they're searching the bottom of the ponds with their hands. >> reporter: a challenging and time consuming process. >> obviously in murky water conditions they cannot see where they're going. the tenders on the shore holding the rope will guide them through the water. >> reporter: friends of the victim's family say they're hopeful the search for evidence will bring deputies one step closer to an arrest. >> sure, we're all concerned. you know, i got three girls. they're little. they used to play outside. since this, now they don't. >> reporter: we're told the ves voirs are about four feet deep. investigators have not said what led them to this spot. in calaveras county, back to you. >>> firefighters in southern california are finally getting control of the largest wildfire burning there right now. cool, moist air moving into ventura county is helping firefighters get a containment line around the fire burning in the coastal mountains. the fire burned about 44 square miles. that's ne

truths and that's why jeremy scahill that work is so crucial is the same journalist who blew open blackwater's criminal. and now he's delving into even more dangerous territory to expose the scope of u.s. covert wars with his new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. it's hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror with the name of the military but i knew i was missing the story there was another war in the shadows. and i great. to see the two men in the guest house for the first people could. have been in those with one of the you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body.

i think that is the lesson of history that we should bear in tod and bring his exposures first blackwater and the mercenary army. same way the the secret wars were secret. if you have a reporter that is willing to have the courage and integrity, you can expose said. these resources are there and a growing in palace of generating capacity that they will get larger and larger. and of one target disappears, they will return somewhere else. of that, too.tory if some of you want to read about it, there is a very study the history of drugs, torture, and so forth. he did a study of the u.s. counterinsurgency war in the philippines. it was a brutal and murderous war. hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered. he pointed out that after the the u.s. forces were marines, mostly, in those days. they used the highest technology available. do our oury could standards about a primitive level. of the things that jeremy described. intorned the philippines 100 years later, they have never escape from this. it was permeated by the consequences of this long terror war. but he pointed out that these measure

. >> it's blackwater diving and they're searching the bottom of the ponds with their hands.bviously, in murky water conditions, they cannot see where they're going, so the tinders on the shore holding the rope will guide them through the water. >> investigators are also canvassing neighborhood residences for any possible lead in leila fowler's death. if you have any information, you are urged to call police. >>> new developments in the story of that pennsylvania mom who was declared dead after disappearing 11 years ago. brenda heist is very much alive and now investigators are starting to piece together how she ended up in the gainesville, florida, area. they say it appears she hitch-hiked with strangers to the florida keys in 2002. beyond that, it gets murky. >> she hasn't given us any indication of how she got here from the keys, and also, as her address on the booking sheet, she listed homeless. so, it's a mystery how she got from here to there, or from there to here. >> according to affiliate wcjb, heist told police she lived under bridges and skavaged food from trash an

he is the national security correspondent for the nation, author of "blackwater" and democracy now!correspondent. fromng us by videostream troy, new york, welcome back to democracy now! can you respond to the statement, the letter of the attorney general? >> i actually think there raises more questions than it answers. for the first time eric colder it admitted the u.s. -- he did not say assassinated, i call it assassinated one of its own citizens, and more and awlaki -- anwar awlaki. the 9/11ndemned attacks. he was really radicalized by u.s. policy and ended up going back to his ancestral homeland of yemen and started preaching against the u.s.. beginning in mid 2009, the obama administration decided to try to take him out. after numerous attempts to kill him with drone strikes, the americans succeeded in killing him in 2011. eric holder's letter talks about how al-awlaki had directed the so-called underwear bomber who try to blow up a u.s. airplane over detroit on christmas day in 2009. what is interesting, all of these allegations are made by their holder, but no actual evidence

actually kind of a paradox, because i find obama talks like a religion confessor and talks like blackwater in that he has kind of an enormous kind of secret war throughout the muslim world. but when he talks about these things and when there is a kind of attack, you know, we often hear -- i would call it a kind of sugar-coated version of things. >> what you just said there strikes me as kind of the core here, the burning flame of this, was always this idea that somehow this was underplayed because there was not the initial invocation of al qaeda or jihades. he said it was never an act of terror and yet he said it was an act of terror, but that seems to be the elemental thing driving this from the beginning, that there was some rhetorical mistake here. i don't actually quite understand why that matters. >> well, look, the cia had intelligence that there were al qaeda cells that were in benghazi. and the attempt to kind of cover it up concerns us all. why not put that on the table, that there could have been many different theories? and the obama administration did corner itself by sticking

you know out of grand rapids his nephew erik prince started to go to the shooting range in the blackwater is now hiding out in the police but. so you continue with your story mackinaw center which you write is existed for a very long time you see their budget increasing sharply you see them hiring all these former broadcast and print journalists who have been laid off or. close to laid off. and in other states like wisconsin at the time completely controlled by democrats democratic governors democrat legislature very pro union you see these conservative planners going in finding an existing think tank wisconsin public policy foundation and then creating a new kind of action oriented think tank called in the khyber institute and the state doesn't come out with academic papers like a traditional think tank their purpose is to drive public opinion and to lobby the legislature so they're hiring folks to just get video cameras and go out and film union rallies to go out and conduct polls that pressure republican politicians to take on the unions you see so you either see exist. state based con

it's a minor cut over ten years yet i did you know i pointed out of so saying they were going to blackwater's a lot about what had been special to kerry he would beg to differ with you. especially especially the people below the poverty level let's move on to something that you guys are all good all why this is yeah ok back there in the height of the two thousand and twelve presidential campaign mitt romney was running ads like this about cylindrica president obama and spending your tax dollars to create. doing you've heard of cylinder they took five hundred thirty five million dollars in taxpayer loan guarantees and went bankrupt but that's not even half the story the bombers department of energy has handed out of dollars in loans and grants ok so according to new data from the depart of energy it appears that the deal we program funded cylindrica is actually doing quite well thank you very much it's created over twenty thousand jobs how much oh how much you know allies with the base given going there were only two governors have have they have been responsible for over six hundred thousand

show guy in charge of team and then when fema screws up you can say we don't need fema let's hire blackwater instead which is exactly what they did chris what do you think you think i'm nuts well you know i'm not really sure what nancy pelosi is point in saying that was because if john boehner work female you know you can't say anything bad about female leaders i.e. hillary or nancy pelosi so i don't even if they say but you're here's the bigger picture on the whole thing is that in washington today we have serious serious policy differences between the two sides we have one side that things government is the solution to every problem we have the other side who is worried about the financial bankruptcy of our country and the lack of. eroding freedoms and when those two what i did zia come into conflict these are really deeply held beliefs that are coming into conflict and that is why our two parties are fighting the way they are i guess they're two completely different vision but you're. and it's not the point and it's funny name calling and ridiculous things that former speaker pelosi said

dynaco all the big names that you're familiar with gratefully not blackwater i had security provided by the american army the contractors made more money than any of us could imagine i was the lowest paid american in fact on my provincial reconstruction team the contractors were paid in some cases about thirty or forty percent more than i was sometimes sixty or eighty percent more than the soldiers who were working around us and many of them were were knuckleheads klutzes ne'er do wells folks who probably got on the wrong plane and ended up in iraq everything we did there was expensive i was told but the cans of soda that we drank in the cafeteria cost seven dollars apiece by the time you brought them to iraq we actually carried oil for our use to iraq because we we needed it and it was somehow more expensive to do it from outside than even to acquire it within iraq. so. back to the rationale one that when this thing was put together was the idea that we're actually going to rebuild this country or was the idea ok you know we've bombed them back to the stone age we. had them back to

the new libyan government said, we don't want any blackwaters here, and we didn't have enough staff, put on the ground in benghazi. that's the problem. and there's blame for that in the state department, but congress wasn't funding it as well either. so, yes, let's spend more, but let's realize, we're going to lose diplomats. if we're going to have thousands of young soldiers lose their lives and lose their limbs, we've got to take risks and we're going to lose some civilians also. >> david, columnist and author, we always appreciate your insight and perspective, sir. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> that takes us to the brain trust on this sunday afternoon. esther armah, rob frankin, and robert costa, washington editor at the "national review." good to see all of you on this mother's day. esther, i'm going to start with you. republicans continue to hammer on the changing of the talking points with regard to the benghazi attack. this is darrell issa on "meet the press" this morning. let's take a listen and talk about it on the other side. here it is. >> was the response cor

a stunning masterpiece of research, drawn from the ranks of the navy seals, delta force, former blackwater and other private military contractors, the c.i.a., special activities division, and joint special operations command. these elite soldiers operate worldwide with thousands of secret commandos working in more than 100 countries, funded through black budget, the budget you don't know about, but you fund special operations forces, conduct missions in denied areas, and engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals, and cruise missile strikes, while the bush administration deployed these ghost militias, president obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. we urge you to call 866-359-4334, 866-359-4334. i can only say we cannot do this without you. having jeremy on the show for two takes also with some of the video that and he the film maker who made the film with him, "dirty wars: the world is a battlefield" that's coming out around the country june 7, and you should check area listings, we played some of the clips on "democracy now," and that'