November 2009
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Why Is the State Department Speaking for JSOC?
By Jeremy Scahill
Interesting chain of command issues seem to be emerging in the official “denials” being offered about my story in The Nation magazine on Blackwater and the Joint Special Operations Command operations in Pakistan. A few hours before the piece was published, I received a call—unprompted—from the office of Admiral Mike Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of...
WatchVideo from The Ed Show, talking Blackwater
Town Hall Meeting on Afghanistan Today in DC
FAULT LINES: AFGHANISTAN
A televised town hall debate hosted by Al Jazeera’s Avi Lewis
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 1230pm
THE NEWSEUM 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20001
Featuring:
Matthew Hoh, Former U.S. State Department Official
General Jack Keane, Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff
Mariam Nawabi, Co-Founder, Afghanistan Advocacy Group
Jeremy Scahill, Investigative...
WatchVideo of my appearance Tuesday night on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC discussing the allegations that Blackwater officials sought to bribe Iraqi officials to the tune of $1 million to look the other way and allow the company to continue operating in Iraq after the Nisour Square massacre in 2007. READ THE STORY HERE
Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials →
In the aftermath of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad by operatives working for Blackwater, top company officials including then-president Gary Jackson “authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support,” according to the New York Times. Seventeen Iraqis were killed and more than 20 others...
WatchOn Monday night, I was on the Lou Dobbs show on CNN for the “Face-Off” segment where I debated the neconservative, pro-Empire Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard, about Afghanistan. Patricia DeGennaro of NYU was also on the program.