you know is just involved he but everything he does is for other countries all that erik prince is doing right now is contracting out for services security services and all that mercenary services to other countries so again i think the big question with blackwater z. now cold academy is is it is it ok for an american and an american firm. under another name or whatever to be contracting out mercenary services to foreign countries i think that's the big question when it comes to academy z. blackwater and all these others that are run by americans were or actually american firms and i have a feeling we're not going to get the answer to that question anytime soon any time soon michael o'brian author of america's failure in iraq thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me. with no other way to force one tunnel bay officials to hear their pleas for justice over one hundred detainees are putting their lives on the line with a massive hunger strike their protest is now in its fifth week and many are saying it's a do or die type of hunger strike it started when guards were confiscatin

between the cia and blackwater in fact it's a relationship that was so close that blackwater founder erik princerevealed in a recent interview that the firm took direct orders from the agency and became quote a virtual extension of the cia take for example king abdullah's of jordan's visit to blackwater headquarters in north carolina back in two thousand and five at the end of his trip blackwater executives awarded adela with modified rifles dawn with blackwater's logo yet it was uncovered that the weapons were illegally given and there was no paper trail showing the guns making into the hands of the jordanian king. but they ain't worried a paper trail because it was revealed that the cia had instructed blackwater to give the king the guns since quote the agency had forgotten to get gifts for him hoops well i'm glad mercenary thugs can pick up where the cia leaves off and since selling the company that continues to be the line of defense used by prince against the allegations he said quote blackwater carried out countless life threatening missions for the cia and in return the government chose t