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2009-12-13 India-Pakistan

CIA terminates contract with Blackwater: report

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Bad move.

Posted by newc 2009-12-13 12:52|| 2009-12-13 12:52|| Front Page Top

#2 One wonders what the early termination penalties were, and how soon an independent subsidiary of Xe signs new contracts that look astoundingly like the old ones.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-12-13 04:27|| 2009-12-13 04:27|| Front Page Top

#3 CIA spokesman George Little said Panetta had ordered that the agency's employees take over the jobs from Xe employees at the remote drone bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan,

Does not pass the smell test. Positions and duties were probably converted to Agency temp-hire. It just isn't that easy to find "Rough men who stand ready to do violence."

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-13 05:13|| 2009-12-13 05:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Shhhh, Besoeker. This complies with the Administration's mandate to agencies to reduce contractors in favor of govt positions. Let's not call attention to how that is being done if it is being done appropriately, yes?

Posted by lotp 2009-12-13 09:22|| 2009-12-13 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect different paper, same people rule applies here....

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-12-13 23:26|| 2009-12-13 23:26|| Front Page Top

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