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TV Fanatic
January 11, 2018
Greg Plageman is a person of interest. He's been writing and producing television you love for a long time, including NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Cold Case and Person of Interest (as creator and showrunner) among others. As you know, at the end of Taken Season 1, the show was about ready to undergo aÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
December 22, 2017
WASHINGTON — A federal judge Friday ordered a former Blackwater Worldwide security contractor to remain in a federal prison while awaiting retrial after a federal appeals court threw out his first-degree murder conviction in shootings that killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square inÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
December 8, 2017
Jeff Schechtman: Welcome to Radio WhoWhatWhy. I'm Jeff Schechtman. Some men spend their whole lives seeking out fame and fortune. Others put their nose to the proverbial grindstone each day, do their job, and try and do it well, fairly and with integrity and with passion. They don't seek fame or fortuneÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 27, 2017
The founder of Blackwater – a private military firm later known as Xe Services and now known as Academi – Prince is set to appear Thursday before the committee behind closed doors. The appearance was described by the committee as "open in a closed space," indicating that a transcript will likely beÃÂ ...
The Express Tribune
November 23, 2017
A high-profile Saudi whistleblower, one who is said to have inside information, also claimed Salman has brought in at least 150 'Blackwater' guards. “The first group of Blackwater mercenaries arrived in Saudi Arabia a week after the toppling of bin Nayef [Salman's predecessor as crown prince]”, he tweetedÃÂ ...
The Moscow Times
November 22, 2017
(Bloomberg) — Erik Prince, the founder of the Blackwater private security firm and a presence during Trump's presidential transition, is scheduled to appear next week before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. A notice posted on a HouseÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
October 17, 2017
The settlement stems from a whistleblower suit accusing the company of violating the False Claims Act when it billed DOD for the guards, who were hired to protect U.S. and allied personnel but ... The company merged with Academi, formerly Blackwater, to form its parent company Constellis Group in 2014.
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2017
Blackwater was heavily involved in the Iraq War, and in September 2007, Blackwater employees shot and killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in what numerous witnesses—including some Blackwater whistleblowers—described as the grotesque, unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians.
The Intercept
November 15, 2017
... past work for Blackwater's Erik Prince on the CIA assassination program. ...... embassy in DC with luxury immunity suites for whistleblowers.
Comics Beat
October 31, 2017
I was always interested in the whistleblowers whether it be Edward .... of the writing I did before on companies like Halliburton and Blackwater.
The Hill (blog)
October 12, 2017
“Future whistleblowers who take a risk to expose wrongdoing and ... but urged swift passage of the underlying whistleblower legislation so ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2017
Blackwater was heavily involved in the Iraq War, and in September ... witnesses—including some Blackwater whistleblowers—described as the ...
Just Security
February 22, 2017
Whistleblowers do a difficult thing: They often put their career and livelihood at ... I recently left a government office that reviewed whistleblower ...
Tempo.co
December 31, 1999
Akun twitter whistleblower Saudi yang terkenal, @Ahdjadid, yang ... "Kelompok tentara bayaran Blackwater pertama tiba di Arab Saudi ...
Fox Business
December 31, 1999
XE) topped gainers with a 2.9% rise and car maker Volkswagen AG .... from controversy over her handling of a police whistleblower while she ...
Sputnik International
September 2, 2017
Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater, gave a wide ranging interview to the Huffington Post in whichÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2017
Blackwater was heavily involved in the Iraq War, and in September ... witnesses—including some Blackwater whistleblowers—described as theÃÂ ...
WSLS
July 6, 2017
"Half of the lake, the Blackwater half has primarily agricultural land use. If I was going to say the Blackwater cause, it may be livestock.
Just Security
March 2, 2017
Indeed, recently two lawyers who represent whistleblowers argued that PPD-19 works and “It is only through cases like Ellard's that seniorÃÂ ...
Just Security
February 22, 2017
Whistleblowers do a difficult thing: They often put their career and livelihood at ... I recently left a government office that reviewed whistleblowerÃÂ ...
Guns.com
February 13, 2017
Two whistleblowers and former marksmen, Lyle Beauchamp and Warren Shepherd, ... Back then Academi was known as Xe Services LLC.
The Intercept
January 18, 2017
Whistleblowers also alleged that Prince encouraged an environment in which Iraqis were killed for sport. At the height of the BlackwaterÃÂ ...
Guns.com
February 13, 2017
Two whistleblowers and former marksmen, Lyle Beauchamp and Warren Shepherd, filed the False Claims Act lawsuit against Academi Training Center Inc., the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater. Lawyers for Academi asked U.S. District ...
The Guardian
January 26, 2017
Whistleblower wins out over HSBC charges; plus, Sky ditches the dishes. Also, customers caught up as banks de-risk due to money-laundering laws, and the Yorkshire to close 48 branches.
The Intercept
January 25, 2017
We are now in a situation where we just had a Democratic president who presided over a war against whistleblowers, which is in many ways is a war against a free press, where a charge of espionage was used to go after people who were whistleblowers ...
Democracy Now!
January 24, 2017
Jeremy Scahill, the award-winning journalist who is co-founder of The Intercept, just wrote a column, "Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince Is Advising Trump from the Shadows.
Chicago Tribune
January 24, 2017
Edward Snowden speaks via video remote at a research conference at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 2016. The Russian government said on Jan. 18, 2017 the former NSA contractor, who was granted asylum in 2013, would be allowed toÃÂ ...
Queensland Country Life
January 23, 2017
It has become the most widely cited figure in the Centrelink robo-debt debate: that 20 per cent of the debts identified by its data-matching machine are wrong.
Queensland Country Life
January 23, 2017
"For the government and Centrelink management to now be referring to the federal whistleblower framework and the Public Service Code of Conduct is further evidence that they just don't get it because the debt recovery program is the problem, not ...
The Intercept
January 17, 2017
Prince founded the notorious private security firm Blackwater, which rose to infamy in September 2007 after its operatives gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians, including a 9-year-old boy in Baghdad's Nisour Square.
Towleroad
January 11, 2017
Back in November, Chelsea Manning asked President Obama to commute her 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks to time served.
The Guardian
December 19, 2016
... some of whom were named in an investigation by the Observer, are exploiting "connections" at ticket websites. A whistleblower from one resale site said touts are sometimes handed inside information to help them grab the best seats at must-have ...
Farmington Flyer
December 8, 2016
In North Dakota, water protectors gathered around Blackwater Bridge the week approaching Thanksgiving in order to remove a blockade of burnt up trucks that was blocking southern road access, VICE News reported.
Fortune
November 20, 2016
Feinberg is presented as a series of contradictions: a quiet New Yorker who likes to hunt elk but also sought military-style weapons training from Blackwater; a Princeton grad who fancies himself a blue-collar billionaire; and a committed conservative ...
The Intercept
November 15, 2016
Pence is against whistleblower protections that would prohibit retaliation for reporting crimes or misdeeds. In 2002, the ACLU gave him a 7 .... In December 2007, three months after Blackwater operatives gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's ...
Forward
August 11, 2016
The conspiracy theory has taken on a new life in recent days as whistleblower website WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange implied in an interview with Dutch program Nieuwsuur that Rich may have been the organization's source for the Democratic National ...
Voice of Baltimore
July 12, 2016
The idea had legs, and so Thoreau became the patron saint of whistleblowers. ... There's Snowden, and there were Halliburton's electrocution showers, and Blackwater, which existed in a convenient legal limbo that allowed them to break their own rules.
AlterNet
July 11, 2016
They say the best defense is a good offense. As the GOP prepares for its convention in Cleveland, Republicans have little other choice.
Daily Kos
July 10, 2016
Congressman Issa wasn't content to accuse the Fallujah families of using the committee hearing to advance a lawsuit against Blackwater. Later that year during October 2007 hearings on Blackwater, Issa introduced a new charge. Committee Democrats, heÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
June 13, 2016
After 9/11, the NSA whistleblower explained that Dick Cheney 'conspired' to change 'the culture of surveillance in the intelligence community' to enable widespread spying and data collection.
TMZ.com
June 13, 2016
Robert David Steele, the former CIA clandestine services officer, who himself organized and orchestrated a false flag - he is whistleblower now - he says if they go and measure the bullet trajectories as you're supposed to do with any kind of shootings ...
Press TV
June 13, 2016
The Orlando, Florida, nightclub mass shooting that killed dozens of people on Sunday looks like another false flag operation carried out by Blackwater mercenaries, not by Muslims, says Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic who has been studying the ...
AlterNet
June 7, 2016
We granted the source's request for anonymity because the materials are classified and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers. We will refer to this person simply as "the source." The source said he decided ...
Zee News
May 27, 2016
... of the country was facing an acute agricultural distress. D Bhalla, Secretary in the Lok Sabha Secretariat, said the Jaguar XE was the "most affordable option" car among the four-five options suggested keeping in mind the security concerns for the ...
North Coast Journal
May 26, 2016
Or that's the argument Marineland makes in a lawsuit filed against Humboldt State University student and animal rights activist Zach Affolter this month over a fictional short film titled Blackwater. Affolter made the ... This is a whistleblower case ...
SF Weekly
May 25, 2016
As a muckraking national security and foreign affairs journalist whose beat is whistleblowers, drone warfare, and other stuff the federal government would prefer he leave alone, Jeremy Scahill is disappointed he didn't get an extra pat-down before his ...
Foreign Policy
April 26, 2016
The Blackwater of surveillance, the Hacking Team is among the world's few dozen private contractors feeding a clandestine, multibillion-dollar industry that arms the world's law enforcement and intelligence agencies with spyware.
GovExec.com
April 19, 2016
And thus the social function of Congress, the justice system, the media and various watchdog groups, whistleblowers and others is to force the government to be more transparent.
The Intercept
April 11, 2016
One of the mechanics soon recognized Echo Papa from news photos - he was Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater. Several of the Airborne staff whispered among themselves, astonished that they had ..... KRISTOF NAGL INFORMED ...
Newsweek
March 22, 2016
... tenure as the Defense Department's inspector general ended in 2005 amid a barrage of attacks questioning his leadership, mostly notably from Senator Charles Grassley, the long-serving Iowa Republican who has championed whistleblower rights at the ...
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