Friday, December 7, 2007

Official in Blackwater Probe Quits

As a C-Span junkie, I happened to catch the Congressional hearings
on Blackwater when the owner, Erik Prince, was being grilled.
He had the bearing and haircut of a movie version of a Nazi. Blackwater, or as they should be known, Mercenaries Are Us.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother's link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Krongard, the State Department's top investigator, has been accused by current and former subordinates of thwarting probes into waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq, including alleged arms smuggling by Blackwater."
Read the whole story here.

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