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Blackwater Trial: Lead Blackwater manager threatened life of investigator
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:56 am
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:56 am
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WASHINGTON — 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.
American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators as a dispute over the probe escalated in August 2007, the previously undisclosed documents show. The officials told the investigators that they had disrupted the embassy’s relationship with the security contractor and ordered them to leave the country, according to the reports.
After returning to Washington, the chief investigator wrote a scathing report to State Department officials documenting misconduct by Blackwater employees and warning that lax oversight of the company, which had a contract worth more than $1 billion to protect American diplomats, had created “an environment full of liability and negligence.”
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The investigators concluded that Blackwater was getting away with such conduct because embassy personnel had gotten too close to the contractor.
On Aug. 20, 2007, Mr. Richter was called in to the office of the embassy’s regional security officer, Bob Hanni, who said he had received a call asking him to document Mr. Richter’s “inappropriate behavior.” Mr. Richter quickly called his supervisor in Washington, who instructed him to take Mr. Thomas with him to all remaining meetings in Baghdad, his report noted.
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The next day, the two men met with Daniel Carroll, Blackwater’s project manager in Iraq, to discuss the investigation, including a complaint over food quality and sanitary conditions at a cafeteria in Blackwater’s compound. Mr. Carroll barked that Mr. Richter could not tell him what to do about his cafeteria, Mr. Richter’s report said. The Blackwater official went on to threaten the agent and say he would not face any consequences, according to Mr. Richter’s later account.
Mr. Carroll said “that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” Mr. Richter wrote in a memo to senior State Department officials in Washington. He noted that Mr. Carroll had formerly served with Navy SEAL Team 6, an elite unit.
“Mr. Carroll’s statement was made in a low, even tone of voice, his head was slightly lowered; his eyes were fixed on mine,” Mr. Richter stated in his memo. “I took Mr. Carroll’s threat seriously. We were in a combat zone where things can happen quite unexpectedly, especially when issues involve potentially negative impacts on a lucrative security contract.”
He added that he was especially alarmed because Mr. Carroll was Blackwater’s leader in Iraq, and “organizations take on the attitudes and mannerisms of their leader.”
Read the article...appears these guys were out of control and Erik Prince may have had a bit of a god complex requiring employees to take a pledge of loyalty to him.
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This post was edited on 6/30/14 at 9:57 am
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:00 am to cwill
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company, which had a contract worth more than $1 billion to protect American diplomats, had created “an environment full of .....negligence.”
How many diplomats did Blackwater lose?
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:06 am to cwill
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Good story. Not surprised.
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“...organizations take on the attitudes and mannerisms of their leader.”
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:12 am to cwill
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“organizations take on the attitudes and mannerisms of their leader.”
So do people. So what he is bitching about?
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:15 am to navy
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How many diplomats did Blackwater lose?
I don't know...is it your position that negligence and malfeasance or OK as long as nothing bad happens? What are your thoughts on the threats? How about the indiscriminate firing in the square?
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:16 am to Homesick Tiger
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So do people.
What do you think was meant by "organizations"? The building?
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So what he is bitching about?
The lawless or above the law attitude of Blackwater leadership.
He also found where they defrauded the US taxpayer.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:23 am to Homesick Tiger
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So do people.
I just found it interesting in the State Department report that comment was made.
Reminds me of a situation we are facing today.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:36 am to cwill
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So do people.
What do you think was meant by "organizations"? The building?
Blackwater was out of control, Les and Mark lost control a long time ago.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:38 am to cwill
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I don't know...is it your position that negligence and malfeasance or OK as long as nothing bad happens? What are your thoughts on the threats? How about the indiscriminate firing in the square?
It said that they were contracted to protect diplomats but were negligent.
So, I asked how many did they lose. The loss of diplomats would be factual back-up of the charge of negligence in the context in which it was charged.
For example ... I can easily say that the Federal Government is negligent in protecting our borders ... BECAUSE we have a shitload of illegals in this country and the border is like a sieve.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:43 am to navy
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o, I asked how many did they lose. The loss of diplomats would be factual back-up of the charge of negligence in the context in which it was charged.
So if they don't maintain their weapons training, don't maintain vehicles in a good, working order indiscriminately murder Iraqis...they aren't negligent because a diplomat wasn't killed on their watch (and I'm not sure one was or wasn't)?
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