by Spencer Ackerman | Dec 5, 2012 | Monitor
The elite commandos in Afghanistan just got a new base of operations. And it’s owned by Blackwater, thanks to a $22 million no-bid deal.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 21, 2012 | Monitor
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is supposed to be winding down. Its contractor-led drug war? Not so much. It could last past the U.S. handover date for the war, and the government wants to run it out of the 10-acre …
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 21, 2012 | Monitor
Blackwater guards at the Republican Palace in Iraq, undated photo. The reincarnated security firm, now called Academi, just received a contract to train the Defense Department’s intelligence operatives in self-defense. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Now that the...
by Spencer Ackerman | Aug 8, 2012 | Monitor
Security contractors in Baghdad. Photo: courtesy of Robert Young Pelton. Depending on how you look at it, the world’s most notorious mercenary firm just got away with misleading the government about arming and training foreign governments — or the company...
by Spencer Ackerman | Jul 16, 2012 | Monitor
A Blackwater helicopter circles over the site of a bomb blast in Baghdad, 2004. Photo: Wikimedia The security firm once known as Blackwater has repeatedly tried to distance itself from its bad old days of wrongful death and corporate misconduct. But a new lawsuit...
