Blackwater shitcanned from operational drone contracts at CIA
Juan
Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A.
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract
with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that
allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and
Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
The contract gave employees with the company an operational role in
one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most significant covert
programs, which has killed dozens of militants with Predator and
Reaper drones. The company’s involvement highlighted the extent to
which the C.I.A. had outsourced critical jobs to private companies
since the 9/11 attacks.
The contract with the company, now called Xe Services, was canceled
this year by Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, according to a
C.I.A. spokesman. In August, The New York Times first revealed the
existence of the contract, which was run by a division of the company
called Blackwater Select, which handles classified contracts.
George Little, the C.I.A. spokesman, said that Mr. Panetta had ordered
that the agency’s employees take over the jobs from Xe employees at
the remote drone bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that Mr.
Panetta had also ordered a review of all contracts with the company.
“At this time, Blackwater is not involved in any C.I.A. operations
other than in a security or support role,” Mr. Little said.
The disclosure about the terminated contract comes a day after The
Times reported that Blackwater employees had joined C.I.A. operatives
in secret “snatch and grab” operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blackwater’s role in the raids grew out of contracts that the company
had with the spy agency to provide security for the C.I.A. in Kabul
and Baghdad.
The company had a dual role in the drone program, said current and
former employees and intelligence officials. Contractors on the secret
bases assembled and loaded Hellfire missiles and 500-pound laser-
guided bombs onto drones, and they also provided security at the
C.I.A. bases.
The C.I.A. did not allow contractors to select targets for the drone
attacks or pull the trigger on the strikes. That work was done at the
C.I.A.’s headquarters in Langley, Va.
But Blackwater’s direct role in the drone operations sometimes led to
disputes between the contractors and C.I.A. employees, as the spy
agency sometimes accused Blackwater employees of poor weapon assembly
if the missile or bomb missed a target. In one instance last year, a
500-pound bomb dropped off a Predator before the drone had launched
its payload, leading to a frenzied search along the Afghan-Pakistani
border.
A company employee said the bomb was eventually found not far from the
intended target.
Al
<83998a9b-4796-4a31...@p35g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Juan <fly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> December 12, 2009
> Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A.
>
> WASHINGTON � The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract
> with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that
> allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and
> Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
Your buddies will be just as dead no matter who loads the hellfires,
Pudge.
Jamir Quay
> December 12, 2009
How's the divorce coming , fatboi?
http://www.itpreport.com/upload/Juan_Jimenez_200x150.jpg
Sheesh, even a Polack dumped your lard ass...
MTV
> December 12, 2009
> Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A.
>
> with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that
> allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and
> Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
>
>
So, now who's going to get Osama Bin Laden?
MTV
Jamir Quay
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. drone strike this week killed a senior al Qaeda
operator in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border, U.S. and
Pakistani officials said Friday.
U.S. officials said Saleh al-Somali, who was responsible for al Qaeda's
operations outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan, was killed in the strike
Tuesday. He was on the Central Intelligence Agency's list of the top 20
al Qaeda targets, according to an official familiar with the list.
On Friday, officials in Pakistan said intelligence officers on the
ground had identified the dead militant as Abu Yahya al-Libi, a senior
al Qaeda figure higher on the CIA's list of terrorist targets.
Sanders Kaufman
news:K2QUm.148039$mn3....@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com...
> Juan wrote:
>> WASHINGTON � The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract
>> with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that
>> allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and
>> Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
>
> So, now who's going to get Osama Bin Laden?
Someone OTHER than Blackwater/Xe.
We already gave the Evangelicals their shot, and the blew it.
We gave them 8 years and a couple of hundred billion dollars - and they gave
us NOTHING worthwhile in return.
Ivan Skavinsky Skavar
"Sanders Kaufman" <bu...@kaufman.net> wrote:
> "MTV" <volz...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:K2QUm.148039$mn3....@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com...
> > Juan wrote:
>
> >> WASHINGTON � The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract
> >> with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that
> >> allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and
> >> Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
> >
> > So, now who's going to get Osama Bin Laden?
>
> Someone OTHER than Blackwater/Xe.
Code Pink.