The Blackwater incident involving the relationship between the US Department of State's Inspector General and his brother, who used to serve as a Blackwater advisory Board member hopefully would serve as a "wake up call" for our US Congress.
Blackwater - USA by its own accord has several contracts with the US government involving millions of dollars. For a security company such as Blackwater, to having had only one Board meeting raises a big red flag in terms of its corporation status and the millions of US taxpayer's monies going to their pockets.
A question that needs to be answered is: why the US State Department illegally granted full immunity from prosecution to the Blackwater employees (involved in the Iraqi fatal shooting) who were interviewed by the US State Department's criminal investigators?
If you are following the Blackwater incident in Iraq, the latest is that the FBI investigated a questionable murder of several innocent Iraqis and found that the Blackwater's mercenaries did not justify the lethal force used.
I just returned from a security detail from a foreign country. I can attest that these American security companies (contracted by United States agencies with millions or billions of US taxpayers' monies), when operating in foreign soil are under the assumption that they can freely operate as if they have "Carte Blanch" to do whatever they feel like to its USA employees under contract, and commit waste, fraud, abuse, and a number of ethical and integrity violations. In other words, these security companies being contracted by our US government are under the false assumption that they can break any US criminal or civil law as long as they are operating in a foreign country.
One of the reasons some of these companies turned "bullies" act the way they do is due to their false assumption that once an employee sign a written contract stating he/she cannot disclose any information to anyone, the security company (employer) believes that its management is free to operate at will and disdain without regard to due process to its employees.
I believe our US Congress need to take a close look at how these security companies are securing contracts involving billions of dollars of tax-payer's monies. Some of these questions have been answered by the federally conviction for bribery of numerous government officials for granting preferential (kickbacks) treatment to some of these government private contractors.
