Report: Blackwater created shell companies

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WASHINGTON – The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday.

The newspaper said that it was unclear how many of the created companies got American contracts but that at least three of them obtained work with the U.S. military and the CIA.

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has asked the Justice Department to see whether Blackwater misled the government when using the subsidiaries to gain government contracts, according to the Times.

It said Levin's committee found that North Carolina-based Blackwater, which now is known as Xe Services, went to great lengths to find ways to get lucrative government work despite criminal charges and criticism stemming from a 2007 incident in which Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians. A committee chart outlines the web of Blackwater subsidiaries.

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Somedays, don't you all just wish Blackwater had access to the Nuclear Football briefcase - and just melt the whole place over there?

That is one committee chart I'd like to have looked into: the one illustrating WHY Blackwater hasn't killed more of 'em "inappropriately."

When Iran finally buys their way into the Iranian Congress, I suppose only then Carl fucking Levin will see the forest for the trees over there.