*News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government*
10 Nov 2009
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*Breaking: Blackwater Paid $1 Million In Bribes to Iraqi Officials After
Shootings<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html>
* --*Blackwater's buying off government officials is illegal under US
law*11 Nov 2009 Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized
secret
payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to
silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode
in which Blackwater security guards mercenaries fatally shot 17 Iraqi
civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials. Blackwater
approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests
over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger
inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees.
Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who
was then the company’s president, had approved the bribes, and the money was
sent from *Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations [and
torture] hub*, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, though, said they
did not know whether the cash was delivered to Iraqi officials or the
identities of the potential recipients. [See: *Blackwater/Xe in
Pakistan<http://www.legitgov.org/blackwater_xe_in_pakistan.html>
*.]

*Subpoenas We Can Believe In: Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor
Lists<http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506...>
** *10 Nov 2009 In a case that raises questions about online journalism and
privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an
independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on
a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based
Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless
authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual
quandary for any news organization. The
subpoena<http://www.eff.org/files/subpoena.pdf>from U.S. Attorney Tim
Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to
and from www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008.

*FBI Agents Search Trash At Mosque Attended by
Hasan*<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* --Agents Seen Pulling Material from Dumpster Outside Killeen Mosque* 10
Nov 2009 FBI agents appeared to be carrying out a search warrant today at
the Killeen, Texas mosque attended by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamic
Community Center of Greater Killeen. Local police were called to cordon off
the area and told ABC News they were acting on instructions from the FBI.
Moments later, four agents, wearing blue gloves, began to search through a
trash bin outside the mosque.

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