Blackwater Wanted to Tap Foreigners to Carry Out Secret CIA Program - Political News - FOXNews.com

When the CIA is over stretched because the Democrats have gutted it to give money to people without jobs, or to give money to the unions and other pork barrel projects, then it is nice to know they can find a reputable company with the required expertise to fill in the gaps. Of course, the Dems have attacked that company for providing the personnel, because the Dems hate the CIA and anything that provides security for our country. If it does not buy votes it is not worthwhile, right Senator Reid?

Good for Blackwater. I am proud of them and the way that they filled the gaps the politicians created in our security. Tell the pols to go to heck and continue to kill the terrorists and other dangers how ever you can.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/30/blackwater-wanted-tap-foreigners-carry-secret-cia-program/

When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.

With Blackwater's lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government.

Blackwater told the CIA that it "could put people on the ground to provide the surveillance and support -- all of the things you need to conduct an operation," a former senior CIA official familiar with the secret program told The Associated Press.

But the CIA's use of the private contractor as part of its now-abandoned plan to dispatch death squads skirted concerns now re-emerging with recent disclosures about Blackwater's role.

The former senior CIA official said he had doubts during his tenure about whether Blackwater's foreign recruits had mastered the necessary skills to pull off such a high-stakes operation.

Blackwater's later hiring of several senior CIA officials who were involved in or aware of the secret program, including one of the men who ran the operation, showed the blurred lines of using a private contractor for such a highly classified and dangerous project.