Author: Zandar1

Reading over the excellent liveblogging of today’s Blackwater hearing over at FDL I’m struck by how much Erik Prince sounds like Ted Bell’s   seminal fictional character, Alexander Hawke.  Literally,...

Much more on Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince and his testimony before Congress later today, but first Josh Marshall and the fine folks at TPM provide an indispensable primer on the Little Prince. Erik Prince is 37 years...

Still no White House response on the Blackwater issue, but plenty of news to report in the last 24 hours on the PMC on everyone’s front page.  All of it’s bad news for Blackwater. First, a new Pentagon contract...

The thing that continues to surprise me about the continuing Blackwater saga is that the White House and the GOP Right Wing Noise Machine is dead silent about Blackwater.  Only the Pentagon and State Department even bother...

Enough with the booting, now we’re into the counterstrike.  The Blackwater story is blowing up, and what started out as the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki saying “enough is enough” is turning into...