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19 Sep 2007, 1:48 pm
NPR, which has been devoting a great deal of attention to the Blackwater story, has this article on its web site addressing proposed legislation to provide additional legal avenues for dealing with U.S. contractors in Iraq.The bill that the article discusses appears to be S. 674, sponsored by Senator Obama and co-sponsored by Senators Durbin and Whitehouse. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 11:38 am
The legal status in Iraq of security firms such as Blackwater is an interesting question. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 7:37 pm
THOUGHTS ON Iraq and Blackwater. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 2:49 pm
On my way home from work, I had the pleasure of listening to Melissa Block's interview of the highly esteemed Scott Silliman, the Executive Director of Duke Law School's Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, concerning potential criminal liability of Blackwater security personnel involved in shooting deaths of Iraqis over this past weekend. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 8:37 pm
Analysis of the private security mess in Iraq. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 7:34 pm
I've previously posted (here and here) a lawsuit brought by the family of Blackwater employees; today's news that Iraq has revoked Blackwater's license there made me check in on it status. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 12:53 am
From the Virginian-Pilot, a story about a settlement of Blackwater USA's trade secrets case against a former employee who was a cost analyst for the security firm.All civil and criminal charges have been dropped and the settlement is confidential.Blackwater had fired the analyst, Curtis Smith, and brought suit against him in Superior Court in Virginia. [read post]
17 Aug 2007, 5:13 am
In world rugby, no team inspires more fear than the All Blacks, who start each game with the haka, this Maori war chant (here reciprocated by their fellow Polynesian overachievers, Tonga):For some specific flavor, here's a highlight of Jonah Lomu, a 6'5", 250-pound menace who runs the 100 in 10.89 seconds:And for the people who invented bungee jumping, apparently the effete diversions of whitewater rafting can't compete with their version of aquatic lunacy:… [read post]
5 Aug 2007, 10:08 pm
Patent suit by firm called Parallel Processing demands that all Sony PlayStation 3 consoles be impounded and destroyed [ArsTechnica, Slashdot] It's not all going to Edwards: a scorecard on presidential campaigns' law-firm fundraising [National Law Journal] Link roundup on Oregon criminal charges against fanny-swatting 13-year-olds [Right Side of the Rainbow; earlier] New at Point of Law: Spitzenfreude is mirth derived from ethical pratfall of NY's moralist governor; Florida's… [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 6:46 am
., Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Sikorsky, United Technologies, L-3, Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation, Al Salam Aircraft Company Ltd. and Serco Group Plc. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 7:39 am
In March of 2004 four contract employees of Blackwater Security Consulting were sent out into the streets of Iraq to provide an escort to a food convoy. [read post]
23 May 2007, 2:11 pm
Possibly also Blackwater, Wackenhut and miscellaneous other purveyors of organized violence who will succeed to the control function once the state at last withers away. [read post]
2 May 2007, 10:36 pm
Presumably, Blackwater would liable for any private nuisances they might create. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 7:28 am
April 18, 2007Re: We Fight And Lose Wars In Which We Cannot,Dare Not, Use Our Major Advantages.From: Dean Lawrence R. [read post]
8 Apr 2007, 4:58 am
The Sunday NYT thumbnails "Jeremy Scahill's muckraking book, 'Blackwater: the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army,'" and specifies two contributions to the language:"Going Blackwater" refers to the soldiers who flee the armed forces to work for better-paying private security firms. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 4:40 am
Should convoy to Kabul in the near future, hope Blackwater's not driving. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 9:52 am
Has it ever come close to operating as an unaccountable mercenary force (Halliburton, Blackwater, and a variety of private security firms under contract to the CIA and the Pentagon in Iraq)? [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 1:54 pm
Blackwater is for many reasons a worthy subject of study: funded and empowered by US tax dollars, promoted by the US government, presided over by a revolving door of functionaries who flow between posts in the Republican party, appointive office in the American national security apparatus and Blackwater. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 12:24 pm
AP writer Pete Yost reports here about the Court's decision not to hear Blackwater v. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 8:53 am
The case was Blackwater Security Consulting v. [read post]
