{"id":357668,"date":"2010-02-24T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77508"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:02:59","slug":"blackwater-you-want-us-to-supervise-our-guys-it%e2%80%99ll-cost-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/357668","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater: You Want Us to Supervise Our Guys? It\u2019ll Cost You"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Blackwater-in-Afghanistan hearing<\/a> is just getting underway, but here’s an early highlight, courtesy of the committee’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). When Raytheon, the contractor that hired a Blackwater arm called Paravant as a subcontractor to train Afghan troops, objected to Blackwater guards’ drunken firing on Afghan motorists in May 2009, this was the response, received via email:<\/p>\n

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“If [Raytheon] believes that Paravant has an obligation to supervise all subcontractor personnel at all times… Paravant will need to submit a request for equitable adjustment for the additional personnel, security, and other costs of providing such ‘24-7′ supervision throughout Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>This is quite literally saying that it will cost Raytheon money to ensure Blackwater doesn’t shoot civilians. There’s a line from ‘Goodfellas’ that captures that attitude<\/a> perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Blackwater-in-Afghanistan hearing is just getting underway, but here’s an early highlight, courtesy of the committee’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). When Raytheon, the contractor that hired a Blackwater arm called Paravant as a subcontractor to train Afghan troops, objected to Blackwater guards’ drunken firing on Afghan motorists in May 2009, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}