"James Risen of The New York Times, using recently disclosed State Department documents, has written a bombshell-of-a-story chronicling how Blackwater’s top manager threatened to kill the U.S. government’s chief investigator in 2007, thus thwarting an investigation into Blackwater’s operations just weeks before the company’s guards massacred 17 Iraqi civilians."

By David Harris, Global Research, July 04, 2014 Link to article

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State Department Memo - Blackwater Contractor Performance in Iraq - PDF