RSSLevin: Army didn’t oversee Blackwater
From: The Washington Times | February 24, 2010
A Senate investigation accuses the Army of ignoring the situation when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Afghan army and declared "sidearms for everyone" even though employees were not authorized to carry weapons. The findings by Democratic staff on the Senate Armed Services Committee paint a disturbing picture of lawlessness that contributed to the May 2009 shooting deaths of two Afghan civilians and fed anti-Western sentiment in the region. "Blackwater operated in Afghanistan without sufficient oversight or supervision and with almost no consideration of the rules it was legally obligated to follow," Sen. Carl Levin, ...
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