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Blackwater awarded over $1bn from State Dept

  Blackwater awarded over $1bn from State Dept. since threat on investigator’s life The US State Department has allocated more than a billion dollars in contracts to the security firm Blackwater and its later manifestations since a top official for the company threatened a government investigator’s life in 2007. The Huffington Post reported that the notorious security contractor Blackwater, its subsequent incarnations, and its subsidiaries have received more than $1.3 billion since the fall of 2007 for training and operations the world over. In August 2007, State Department investigator Jean C. Richter said a Blackwater project manager, Daniel Carroll, told… View Article