Last week, the Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury had returned a fifteen-count indictment against five current and former Blackwater officials, charging them with conspiracy to violate a series of federal gun laws, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Among those indicted were Blackwater [...]

“We need to view this sober reality,” Scahill told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday. “The war is in Pakistan right now. There’s no question about it. The question, though, is how much it’s going to expand. … These are actions that are going to destabilize Pakistan and are going to create new enemies for the United [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAeE4SUdshs[/youtube] Jeremy Scahill talks with Keith Olbermann about Erik Prince and Xe Services / Blackwater. There are far more non-Christians than there are Christians in the world, and the kind of atrocity these people commit only alienates people from Christianity. I would consider Blackwater to be a terrorist organization, the Christian equivalent of Al Qaeda, [...]