Saturday, November 03, 2007

Blackwater's Owner Has Spies for Hire

Oh goody! If hired mercenaries were not enough, Blackwater is expanding it service to include spies for hire. According to the Washington Post, The Prince Group, the holding company that owns Blackwater Worldwide, has been building an operation that will sniff out intelligence about natural disasters, business-friendly governments, overseas regulations and global political developments for clients in industry and government. So are the Chimperator and Emperor Palpatine Cheney using them here in the U.S. to spy on would be terrorists (i.e. anyone the Chimperator doesn't like or deems to be a threat in his never-never land of warped reality)? It truly would not surprise me. And I wonder how many bloggers are on Chimpy's enemies list.Here are story highlights (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110202165.html?hpid=topnews):
The operation, Total Intelligence Solutions, has assembled a roster of former spooks -- high-ranking figures from agencies such as the CIA and defense intelligence -- that mirrors the slate of former military officials who run Blackwater. Its chairman is Cofer Black, the former head of counterterrorism at CIA known for his leading role in many of the agency's more controversial programs, including the rendition and interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and the detention of some of them in secret prisons overseas.
They have the skills and background to do anything anyone wants," said RJ Hillhouse, who writes a national security blog called The Spy Who Billed Me. "There's no oversight. They're an independent company offering freelance espionage services. They're rent-a-spies." Black and Richer spend much of their time traveling. They won't say where. It's a CIA thing. Black called at midnight recently to talk about Total Intel from "somewhere in the Middle East."
Pakistan perhaps??

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