May 2010
5 posts
DoD Investigating Nine Cases of... →
From my blog at TheNation.com:
Buried within the new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, “Contingency Contracting: A Framework for Reform,” is the eye-opening revelation that the Defense Criminal Investigative Service has nine open investigations into alleged “Terrorism-Related Acts” by “U.S. contractor personnel, U.S. Military, Government...
Pentagon Seeks Private Contractor to Move Weapons... →
Excerpt from my latest article at my new blog at TheNation.com:
The United States military is in the process of taking bids from private war contractors to secure and ship massive amounts of US military equipment through sensitive areas of Pakistan into Afghanistan where it will then be distributed to various US Forward Operating Bases and other facilities. According to the contract solicitation,...
Were US Special Forces Involved in the Arrest of... →
Excerpt of my new post on TheNation.com:
Reports are emerging suggesting that secret US military intelligence aircraft were used to find and locate Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of attempting to set off a crude car bomb in Times Square. The CBS affiliate in New York reported today: “In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did him in. Armed with his cell phone number,...
WatchVideo of Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now! Tuesday discussing his story for TheNation.com “Secret Erik Prince Tape Exposed.”
Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed
The reclusive Blackwater founder tries to ban journalists and recorders from his speeches in front of friendly audiences. This time he failed.
By Jeremy Scahill
READ THE FULL STORY ON MY NEW BLOG AT THENATION.COM
Erik Prince, the reclusive owner of the Blackwater empire, rarely gives public speeches and when he does he attempts to ban journalists from attending and forbids recording or...