{"id":358345,"date":"2010-02-24T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77582"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:11:54","slug":"levin-catches-blackwater-in-contracting-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358345","title":{"rendered":"Levin Catches Blackwater in Contracting Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater &#8212; sorry, &#8220;Xe Services,&#8221; the new name for the company &#8212; to say that Blackwater shell company &#8220;Paravant&#8221; came into existence shortly before &#8220;Paravant&#8221; got a subcontract from defense giant Raytheon to train Afghan security forces. But then Levin read from the contract submission: &#8220;Paravant has many years of experience identifying and selecting top candidates for training.&#8221; <em>How could that possibly be true? <\/em> Levin asked.<\/p>\n<p>Roitz first tried to parry that the language referred to &#8220;recruiting and vetting functions service [within] all the companies&#8221; controlled by Blackwater. Levin wasn&#8217;t having it: &#8220;Your proposal says something that is not true.&#8221; Roitz backed down, saying the proposal &#8220;could have been better worded.&#8221; Levin rejoindered that Roitz&#8217;s <em>answer<\/em> could have been better worded. Finally, when Levin kept pressing him that Paravant&#8217;s claim of &#8220;years of experience&#8221; could not in any straightforward way be true, he conceded, &#8220;That is true.&#8221;<span id=\"more-77582\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But not before he pointed his finger at Raytheon. &#8220;Raytheon specifically knew who in fact they were contracting with,&#8221; Roitz said. &#8220;They did not want to name Blackwater.&#8221; Levin pressed: Who at Raytheon told him that? &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have a call out to Raytheon officials on this; let&#8217;s see what they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater &#8212; sorry, &#8220;Xe Services,&#8221; the new name for the company &#8212; to say that Blackwater shell company &#8220;Paravant&#8221; came into existence shortly before &#8220;Paravant&#8221; got a subcontract from defense giant Raytheon to train Afghan security forces. But then Levin read from the contract submission: &#8220;Paravant has [&hellip;]<\/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-358345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358345","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=358345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}