The only reason I can think of that explains that kind of top-level protection is if the private mercenary army Blackwater was acting as a surrogate for the CIA — and I think we’ve already assumed as much:
WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports.
American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators as a dispute over the probe escalated in August 2007, the previously undisclosed documents show. The officials told the investigators that they had disrupted the embassy’s relationship with the security contractor and ordered them to leave the country, according to the reports.
After returning to Washington, the chief investigator wrote a scathing report to State Department officials documenting misconduct by Blackwater employees and warning that lax oversight of the company, which had a contract worth more than $1 billion to protect American diplomats, had created “an environment full of liability and negligence.”
The CIA funds all sorts of private armies. The Montagnard in Vietnam was one. Do you know what’s worrisome about Iraq? Afghanistan. The neo-con, interventionist, warmongers are now using Iraq as an excuse for not leaving Afghanistan…….ever. Clinton was 100% correct when she said recently, “The information war (propaganda) has been lost (by the neo-cons) concerning the Middle East.” Obama is a non-interventionist by temperament. Clinton clearly likes to intervene. She continually justifies meddling in other people’s business. Clinton is a busybody and military spendthrift like every other neo-con.