09-03-2010, 08:38 AM
Army contractor's use of a cover name for Blackwater angers Sen. McCaskill
09 Mar 2010
"The American people have a right to be outraged that we're playing this kind of game with contracting. It's wrong. It's flat wrong." With those words, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) voiced her exasperation near the end of a three-hour Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about a contract to train Afghan National Army troops last year to use American weapons. One issue at the Feb. 24. hearing was that the $25 million contract, awarded in September 2008, was to a company called Paravant -- well known to those involved as a cover name for Blackwater (now Xe Services).
09 Mar 2010
"The American people have a right to be outraged that we're playing this kind of game with contracting. It's wrong. It's flat wrong." With those words, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) voiced her exasperation near the end of a three-hour Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about a contract to train Afghan National Army troops last year to use American weapons. One issue at the Feb. 24. hearing was that the $25 million contract, awarded in September 2008, was to a company called Paravant -- well known to those involved as a cover name for Blackwater (now Xe Services).
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