If Erik Prince of Blackwater shows up at the House oversight committee’s hearing into his company’s activities in Iraq, expect him to get an earful. It’s not just about the Mansour incident, or the murky legal status the private-security firm possesses. According to the Iraqi government, Blackwater employees engineered a jailbreak to free a minister convicted of corruption charges.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179820