The “Break it Down” Blog

Rawstory has an extensive analysis of Blackwater, it’s connections to the white house, it’s ramp up from a $1-million a year contractor to a $1-billion a year contractor as well as on going investigations into murders by Blackwater employees and other events that have had no repercussions or charges brought against the Blackwater ops that initiated them.

For the folks that aren’t interested, scroll on by… but for the folks that are interested, I’d suggest taking the time to read it. The incestuous… entity that is Washington is incredible. This ex-aid to this president is now the CEO of this new security company, which hired the old attorney from this economic oversight committee which was in charge of getting the new said company exclusive contracts and on and on and on.

If anyone took the time to plot all these relationships out, I swear to god you’d get a giant circle.

Take a snippet of information from this article for example:

1. Joseph Schmitz, tapped in 2002 by Bush to “oversee and police the Pentagon’s military contracts as the Defense Department’s Inspector General”
2. 2002-2005, Joseph Schmitz executes “the largest increase of military-contracting spending in history”
3. 2005, Joseph Schmitz leaves the Pentagon and joins Blackwater

In any other industry, on any other planet, I’m pretty sure that would have been met with some opposition. Only in Washington can you invent a problem, invent a solution, and then turn around and sell it back to yourself for billions.
P.S.> Bush got his “I get to block documents until hell freezes over” rule overturned.