Were Blackwater Guards Out Of Control In Iraq?

Before Shooting In Iraq, A Warning On Blackwater -- New York Times

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.

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More News On Reports That Blackwater Guards Were Out Of Control In Iraq

Documents: Blackwater guards were out of control -- AP
Blackwater threatened to kill US investigator in Iraq: report -- AFP
Blackwater manager reportedly threatened to kill State Department investigator -- FOX News
Blackwater Iraqi chief threatened to kill US govt. inspector - newspaper -- RT
Blackwater Exec in Iraq Threatened to Murder State Department Employee, Times Reports -- Slate
Blackwater Employee Threatened to Kill State Department Investigator: Report -- Newsweek
A Blackwater staffer literally threatened to murder a US government official in 2007 -- VOX
Blackwater Inquiry Halted In 2007 After Threat To Kill Government’s Chief Investigator: Report -- IBTimes
Blackwater considered itself above the law, US state department was warned -- The Guardian
Blackwater manager told US investigator 'I could kill you' -- The Week
American Unexceptionalism -- William Saletan, Slate
Blackwater: Murder Threats Were Just The Start -- Tim Mak, Daily Beast