ex-Senator takes the words out of my mouth

Gravel took the words out of my own mouth.  He is saddened about America, the state of our country and the money we spend on war instead of those who are going hungry in the U.S.  He wonders where are the morals of our leaders today.  With names are on lists, no trials, no reason for arrest is removing the governmental responsibility for their actions. Gravel says,  "Dropping bombs from the air, you don't see them die...but they are down there."  He also feels that, we have lost our sense in our morals and the "ability to govern ourselves.  The US has committed crimes against humanity and continues to this day.  The Bush war in Iraq, was a crime....Obama says, "Oh we don't look back."  Obama has been doing the exact same thing that the Bush administration." 

Did you know that America has ex pulsed over 500,000 people from the U.S. last year (2011).  Have you read this information in the news?  Why has not the media doing their "real" jobs.  This is what I say, the media is responsible to inform the citizens with facts and truths, not propaganda and lies as they have been doing so.  This is an insult to humanity and our intelligence.  The fact of the kicking people out of our country should be on the front page, they also were "Americans".  One day will they do the same thing to you or to me? 

Obama said, that "we are not going to take any money from special interests."  But, he has been, and has received over 1 billion dollars.  (More on that later) The Gravel says that, "Netanyahu is a liar, and Starkozy says this as well. Israel has weapons enough to start a third world war and we should be careful."

Gravel, feels that we need to leave the countries alone and they will take care of themselves.  "Leave them alone."  and get out of all the countries that we are terrorizing.  He adds, " We have lost our democracy, there are no democracies."

A few things that he mentioned in the video, "(World fears US as a war-hungry drunk')

"Corporations have no moral conscious and memory, they are designed to make money.  They should not be in command of society and our countries.  They are in command of society worldwide today. If this continues, then we will lead to the destruction of our planet. You see this today with the meltdown that is taking place.  They are all only to make a profit.  We need to control the corporations and take them out from controlling the countries.  "That is irresponsible corporate activity The people need a tool to control these things and that is the government.  The government is a tool, and if it is properly designed, and in the hands of the people, then the people will have a role of how things are run.  Marcus Sisrol said that, "People are free if they participate in power."  I know of know country in the world today that are really free."
Well said Gravel!

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IAP Worldwide Services

Susan Brannon
10 July 2011

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IAP Worldwide Services ,Cape Canaveral, Fla
IAP also has a corporate tie-in with Halliburton-KBR on multi-billion dollar Iraq contracts.
•    IAP Chief Executive Officer Al Neffgen, who joined the company in December 2004, served as KBR's chief operating officer of government and infrastructure for the Americas, 

1. while President Dave Swindle was vice president of KBR's business acquisition and national security programs before joining IAP in April 2005. Chuck Dominy, a retired Army lieutenant general, joined IAP in July 2005 after serving for years as Halliburton's chief lobbyist in Washington. (Kwait Times)

IAP was founded in 1990 by a former Army logistician as the United States was preparing for "Operation Desert Storm," and now has 5,500 employees. Cerberus became majority owner in May 2004

•    Former Treasury Secretary: John Snow's Cerberus Capital Management LP owns Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based IAP, which is led by former executives from Halliburton's engineering, services and construction subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root). KBR is currently the Army's sole contractor for providing food and shelter to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Army now wants multiple contractors for these services and KBR is bidding again. Some defense analysts are predicting both KBR and IAP, which is run by former
•    Mr. Snow's Cerberus Capital Management LP owns Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based IAP, which is led by former executives from Halliburton's engineering, services and construction subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root).
•    KBR executives, will each win one of the 10-year deals that start in 2007. http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/06/02/ana06011.html
•    Americans were suddenly awakened to the demonic nature of the cabal and its Bush junta: it was revealed that their greed for profits had led to wounded American war veterans at Walter Reed Army Hospital being housed in rat-infested quarters and receiving sub-standard medical service. This entire calamity was created by the Bush junta privatizing services at Walter Reed. Bush toadies gave the service contract to a company called IAP Worldwide Service, run by a former Halliburton executive. http://www.hermes-press.com/world_economic_conquest.htm
•    IAP Worldwide Service received a $120 million contract to run portions of the hospital's services called facilities management. Immediately after, facilities management staff was reduced from 250 to 50 privately employed workers. IAP Worldwide Services received the contract in spite of its being found to have provided substandard service in fulfilling its multi-million dollar contracts in providing military support in Iraq and in failing to provide ice cubes to Katrina victims.
•    Walter Reed, is only the latest in a long line of serious problems involving the company and its officers. IAP’s President, Alfred V. Neffgen, was formerly Chief Operating Officer for KBR's government operations group, which was forced to repay tens of millions of dollars to the Defense Department for food and fuel overcharges in Iraq.
•    IAP is also tied-in with Halliburton/KBR on multi-billion dollar Iraq contracts. Halliburton is a major defense contractor once headed by Vice President Cheney, that has had its own history of problems with fraud and overcharges related to its management of sole-source projects in Iraq, particularly the multi-billion dollar LOGCAP contracts to provide privatized logistics, food and housing for US forces in Iraq, and the similar no-bid RIO contract awarded to KBR to repair and maintain Iraq’s oil fields and pipelines. (Daily Kos)

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Susan Brannon
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KBR Inc.  (Formally a subsidiary of Halliburton)  Huston
•    Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items - $20 billion
•    Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion
•    RIO, or Restore Iraqi Oil, was awarded to KBR without competition when the United States Department of Defense determined that KBR was "the only contractor that could satisfy the requirement for immediate execution of the plan" 
•    June 2008, Charles M. Smith, the senior civilian Defense Department official overseeing the government's multibillion-dollar contract with KBR during the early stages of the war in Iraq said he was forced out of his job in 2004 for refusing to approve $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR. Smith refused to approve the payments because Army auditors determined that KBR lacked credible records to support more than $1 billion in spending.
•    In May 2010, it was reported that KBR was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq. (Business Week)
•    “KBR connected to Fraud Pentagon Auditor Says” "the vast majority" of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in "questioned" or "unsupported" costs, (Washington Post)
•    Not to mention past allegations of KBR avoiding paying hundreds of millions in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through sell companies based in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands.  More than 21,000 people working for KBR in Irag, are listed as employees of two companies.  KBR admits setting the companies to save on taxes. (Boston Globe)
•    Bribing Nigerian Officials by paying tens of millions in bribes. (Find Law)
•    Soldiers have been electrocuted from faulty wiring in Iraq while KBR explained that they were only to repair broken items, however they installed improper electrical devices.  They were handed a corrective action, in “serious noncompliance” However, shortly afterwards they were awarded a 35 million dollar contract for major electrical work. (CNN)
•    Allegations against sexual assault (WikiPedia)
•    Human Trafficking lawsuit  (AFP)
•    Soldiers claim war zone contractors exposed them to toxins (Nashville Post)

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L-3 Communications Holdings Inc NY
•    Lockheed Martin Corp. claimed L-3 Communications and its subsidiary, L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, Inc. (collectively referred to as “L-3 Comm” in the lawsuit), deliberately misappropriated its proprietary specifications and designs associated with its P-3 series of marine patrol, anti-submarine aircraft. Lockheed accused L-3 Comm of improperly using the data to secure a contract with the government of South Korea to refurbish eight of the Lockheed planes. In May 2009, a jury found in favor of Lockheed and awarded it over $37 million in damages.
•    L-3 Government Services, Inc., agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle False Claims Act and Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act allegations of fraudulent overbilling on information technology support services contracts. An investigation found that L-3 employees were routinely entering nine hours on their time sheets when in fact they only worked eight
•    L-3 Joint Operations Group (JOG), were temporarily suspended from receiving any new federal contracts or orders, including those under its Special Operations Forces Support Activity (SOFSA) contract. The notice of temporary suspension was issued by the Office of the Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force on June 4, 2010 and relates to an on-going governmental investigation of L-3 SSPD concerning the alleged inappropriate use of an e-mail system.
•    According to the April 30, 2007 Report to Congress of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), a criminal investigation found evidence of fraud involving Mohamed Abdel Latiff Zahed, a linguist employed by L-3 Communications subsidiary Titan Corporation. "CID approached Titan with evidence of fraud and received reimbursement of all funds fraudulently received by employee." Funds recovered from the contractor totaled $31,985.
•    Faheem Mousa Salam, an employee of L-3 Communications subsidiary Titan Corporation in the International Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The criminal complaint, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, alleged Salam offered payments to Iraqi police officials in exchange for contracts to supply the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team, Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq, with protective vests and other equipment.
•    L-3 Vertex Aerospace, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corp., paid $4 million to settle allegations that it submitted false and inflated claims to the Army for work on a contract to provide helicopter maintenance services in Iraq.
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 Susan Brannon
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Parsons Corp
•    Built the Police Academy in Iraq and finished in 2006, by July 2006 the building had crumbling walls and sewage running from the ceilings and walls. The cost? $72 Million.  (NYT) Essentially, when they put in the plumbing, they had no fittings, so they just joined plumbing pipes, cemented them together," he said. "The connections burst once they started to be used, and the sewage thus leaked from the bathrooms down through the building — and into light fixtures and through the ceilings."  By Sept 2006, Parsons offered to repair the damage at no extra cost. the American officer affiliated with the new project to repair the problems described an “elaborate and costly effort to tear out and replace the plumbing on entire floors. The problems were so severe, the officer said, that the military had also been obliged to build new latrines outside and demolish some structures entirely and start over.” (Chuck For)
•    Most of the Iraq reconstruction contracts have been awarded through a particular type of troubled contracting vehicle, the Orwellian-sounding "Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity" (IDIQ). IDIQs allow the government to award an unspecified amount of future work to approved contractors For example, the January 6, 2004 contract awarded to Bechtel, which teamed up with Parsons of California, is for an amount up to $1.8 billion to repair the infrastructure of Iraq over the next 24 months. In other words, Bechtel and Parsons have an effective monopoly over any future tasks or services up to $1.8 billion. (POGO)
•    scandalous abuse of taxpayer dollars in the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) program. SSC subcontractor, Parsons Brinckerhoff/Morrison Knudsen (PB/MK), PB/MK appears to be taking advantage of the nature of their contract with DOE, and has been reimbursed for many costs that appear to be excessive.
For example PB/MK has been reimbursed:
 $3,030 for an office desk and $1,107.10 for Christmas cards;
$21,369.18 for office plants and their upkeep in a single year;
$18,403.87 for coffee supplies over a fifteen month period;
$1,257,884.32 for travel costs over fifteen months, or an average of $83,858.95 a month;
$1,626,605.71 for relocation costs over fifteen months, or $3,891.40 per employee if every employee were moved to the SSC facility 30 miles south of Dallas; and
 $293,668.34 for automobile leasing and rental expenses over fifteen months.
•    The last time two of the consultants overseeing Mecklenburg County's light rail and mass transit plan worked on a large-scale project together, they were responsible for an 80-foot sinkhole, thousands of lawsuits totaling over $1 billion, and a trail of fraud and corruption so long that even the FBI couldn't untangle it. Now they're advising Charlotte Area Transit Officials on our transit plan and helping to design it. when Bechtel-Parsons Brinckerhoff was hired to oversee it, the project had an estimated cost of $2.6 billion and a completion date of 1998. Today, the project has a projected completion date of 2005, and its price tag has ballooned to $14.6 billion and climbing. documented $446 million in additional waste on the project because cost-reduction methods weren't applied. The cost of overruns was 2.2 billion dollars (Public Purpose)
•    more than $500,000 in campaign contributions from subcontractors, lobbyists, lawyers and other firms connected to Parsons-Dillingham and EMC
•    review in April of a $243 million contract held by the Parsons Corp. to construct primary health care centers across Iraq revealed that after more than two years and $186 million, only six of the planned 150 centers were complete. . . . (Founders V. Bush)

Subsidiaries:  Parsons Commercial Technology Group Inc.: Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group Inc.:  Parsons Transportation Group, Inc.

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Washington Group Int.  (URS 2007 )- Boise, Idaho (previously Morrison-Knudsen Co 1996)
•    Used to be controlled by Richard Blum, a San Francisco investor married to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. URS and Washington Group (Corporation Watch)
•    At the end of 2007, URS (including Washington Group) had a contract backlog worth $19 billion.
•    April 2007 - California Senator Diane Feinstein abruptly resigned her position as the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee (MILCON).

1. The MILCON subcommittee is in charge of supervising military construction. The committee also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. 
2. Senator Feinstein had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects that were approved by Senator Feinstein. URS Corporation and Perini Corporation owned or operated by her husband. (Ridgecrest)
3. URS Board of Directors, where we find representatives from Rand Corp., Lockheed (Cohen Group is its lobbying arm), Textron, some CIA fronts (Agilent, VeriSign), and other scurrilous corporations:

• H. Jesse Arnelle - ... a director of Textron Corporation since 1993 ... a director of Gannett Company [owned in part by BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY] ... a director of Union Pacific and Resources, Inc.; as a director of Wells Fargo and Company; and as a director of Waste Management, Inc. ...

Subsidaries: #
21st Century Rail Corp
AACM INTL Pty Ltd
Advatech LLC
AGC Woodward Clyde Pty. Ltd
Aman Environmental Construction Inc
Badger Energy Inc
Badger Middle East Inc
Banshee Construction Co Inc
Broadway Insurance Co Ltd
Business Risk Strategies Pty. Ltd
Catalytic Inc
Catalytic Servicios C.A.
CH2M WG Idaho LLC
Clay Street Properties

Board Members
Armen Der Marderosian - ... Mr. Der Marderosian served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GTE Government Systems Corporation from 1995 to 1999 ...
Lydia H. Kennard - ... served on the Board of Trustees of Rand Corporation since 2002 .
General Joseph W. Ralston - ... Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group since 2003 ... a director of Lockheed Martin since 2003 ... General Ralston's military career began in 1965 and concluded in 2003 when he retired from active duty. General Ralston's military career was highlighted by his service as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C. from 1996 to 2000 and Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO from 2000 to 2003.
John D. Roach - ... a director of VeriSign, Inc. (since July 2007) ...
William P. Sullivan - ... the President and Chief Executive Officer of Agilent Technologies, Inc. ... He served as Agilent's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from March 2002 until March 2005 ... a Director of Agilent since March 2005..
William D. Walsh - Mr. Walsh has served as Chairman of Sequoia Associates LLC, a private investment firm, since 1982
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Stephen G. Hanks Noun 1. Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956)
Thomas J. Hanks, Tom Hanks
..... Click the link for more information., president and chief executive officer of Washington Group International , announced today that the company is among the first global firms to commit to a World Economic Forum initiative to eliminate bribery.

• Crime of giving a benefit (e.g., money) in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust (e.g., an official or witness). Accepting a bribe also constitutes a crime.  in business transactions.

• Washington Group is one of 47 companies from around the world to sign the Partnering Against Corruption -- Principles for Countering Bribery (the "PACI principles") pact that was introduced during a World Economic Forum gathering last week in Davos, Switzerland.

(Subsidiary) EG&G –
•    While Johnson was EG&G’s CEO, the firm was acquired by the Carlyle Group, a behemoth investment firm whose executives and investors include former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker III, and the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Carlyle piad $250 million for EG&G, then sold it three years later in 2002 for double that price.
•    In 2001, President George W. Bush made Johnson the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In February 2003, Bush appointed Johnson acting Secretary of the Navy.
•    Johnson’s acting Undersecretary Combs was in the meantime reaching out to the owners of Custer Battles, offering to help them win contracts to rebuild Iraq, according to the Wall Street Journal. Custer Battles showed up in Baghdad with no money or staff, but founder Mike Battles boasted of his close GOP relationships (he ran for Congress in Rhode Island with the backing of former GOP chief Haley Barbour).

1. The firm first won a $16 million contract to get the airport in Baghdad open and running again. Within months, it had several contracts to work in Iraq worth $100 million.
2. Coalition officials filled a duffel with $2 million, which Custer Battles used as startup capital for the airport contract. (With Johnson)
3. Whistleblowers and government auditors say it (Custer Battles) used fake invoices to bilk the government of millions, of inflating the true cost of its services and billing the government for services it never provided. (WP) 
4. Custer Battles security guards have also been accused of firing at unarmed civilians. They have been accused of crushing a car filled with Iraqi children and adults. They have been accused of unleashing a hail of bullets in a Baghdad hotel, only to discover, when the dust literally settled, that they had been shooting at each other.

•    (2006) second lawsuit named Combs and Johnson as co-defendants, though both men have strenuously denied any wrongdoing. Both lawsuits ultimately were dismissed, relieving Custer Battles of any obligation to repay the United States. (NCI)

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Susan Brannon

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DynCorp:
•    A DynCorp International executive says he was fired for complaining that the company charged the State Department millions of dollars for a database that did not exist. The 2004 contract awarded DynCorp $1 million to build a database of Americans trained in law enforcement who were willing to go to Afghanistan or Iraq at a moment’s notice, and $1 million a year to maintain it. (MssSparky)

•    Video Link:  Sex scandal in Afghanistan: (You Tube)

•    The top State Department watchdog, Krongard is now under investigation for
using his post to shield, rather than curb, contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan that defrauded the U.S., smuggled arms, or were just generally, grossly, incompetent. One of the beneficiaries of Krongard’s protection is the infamous Blackwater Worldwide, (Now XE) where his brother A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard, former executive director of the CIA, is a board member.

Krongard announced in December 2007 that he would resign, just as the State Department revealed that, on Krongard’s watch, Blackwater and mega-contractor DynCorp could not account for $28.4 million in U.S. property, including armored cars and weapons. He stepped down January 15, 2008. (National Corruption)

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 Susan Brannon
30 June 2011

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Blackwater USA   (North Carolina)
XE  USTC Holdings
•    Founded in 1998 by former Navy Seals, Erik Prince
•    2 June 2011 - Xe Services, the security and training company formerly known as Blackwater, has named a new chief executive officer. USTC Holdings, Xe's parent company, announced Wednesday that Ted Wright will join the company as CEO effective June 13. Wright comes to Xe from Houston-based KBR
•    McCombs is the lead investor in USTC Holdings. The Texas oil executive is a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications and a former owner of the Minnesota Vikings, Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs.
•    former Attorney General John Ashcroft and retired Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, a former director of the National Security Agency, have been brought on board as independent directors. (All Intelligence)
•    Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and XE now lives in the United Arab Emirates, where, The New York Times reported last month, he has assembled an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. (Hampton Roads)
•    J. Cofer Black, Vice Chairman of the Board (former Coordinator in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State, under Secretary of State Colin Powell)
•    Hillary Clinton, uses Blackwater as her security guards.
•    Blackwater guards were accused of killing 17 civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad. (NY Times)
•    Blackwater has been allowed close to free reign under a murky legal environment that offers little to no oversight over its operations in Iraq and around the world. 
•    The New York Times is reported that the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater in 2004 as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of al-Qaeda. You Tube  (Democracy Now) No written contract or agreement, congress did not know of the role of Blackwater.
•    In sworn statements, two ex-employees claim Blackwater’s owner, Erik Prince, murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. (Democracy Now)
•    Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe.”
•    A sixth Blackwater operative, a guy named Jeremy Ridgeway, (ABC) pled guilty to one count of manslaughter and then another, a lesser count, and is cooperating now with federal authorities.
•    Weapons that were unauthorized for use by the State Department. One of them says he was smuggling them in wrapped in sort of cellophane on his private airplanes, bringing them into Iraq.
•    Bush Pioneers—Bush then launches a war that he describes as a “crusade,” invading not one, but two Muslim countries, and putting Erik Prince and his private force of neo-crusaders at the vanguard of that occupation, guarding all of the senior people that Bush deployed in those countries to be his point men.
•    pro-Blackwater book that was written by CNN executive producer, with Erik Prince’s cooperation, that Gary Jackson, the president of the company, has received some form of a target letter from the Department of Justice.
•     Blackwater continues to do business with the federal government under Barack Obama.
•    Xe Services aiming for $1 billion Afghan police training deal (Daily Herald)
•    former Blackwater security firm was sentenced Tuesday in Norfolk, Va., to more than three years in prison for shooting an Afghan civilian in Kabul in May 2009. (Washington Post)
•    armed personnel opened fire on Iraqi civilians in Nisoor Square in Baghdad on September 16, 2007 by Iraqi citizens injured or the estates of those killed in Nisoor Square. The Defendants include Blackwater founder Erik Prince, U.S. Training Center, Inc. (formerly Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc.), Blackwater Security Consulting LLC, GSD Manufacturing LLC (formerly Blackwater Targets Systems), Raven Development Group LLC, Greystone Limited, The Prince Group LLC, Total Intelligence Solutions LLC, and Xe Services LLC (formerly EP Investments LLC and d/b/a Blackwater Worldwide).
•    The case was initially filed on behalf of Talib Mutlaq Deewan, an Iraqi civilian who was injured by Blackwater personnel during the incident, and the families of three deceased men – Himoud Saed Abtan, Usama Fadhil Abbass, and Oday Ismail Ibraheem. (CCR Justice)
•    subsidiaries also have new names: Blackwater Airships is now Guardian Flight Systems, Blackwater Target Systems is GSD Manufacturing, and Blackwater Lodge and Training Center is the U.S. Training Center. The company also shed its bear-paw and crosshairs logo, for a stylized rendering of the name "Xe." The new head of Blackwater / Xe
US training Center, Paravan, Presidential Airwaves, Tiger Swan, XE Services, Grey Stone (offshore)

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