11.17.2008

Video: Jeremy Scahill on Bill Moyers: Martial Law in the USA

Five minute video describing the presence of Blackwater agents in New Orleans after Katrina. CEO Prince sent them proactively and got the contract later. Blackwater billed the taxpayers $900+ per day per man; the men told Scahill they made $350 per day. One property owner had Israeli armed guards at the entrance to his gated community, who found it amusing that Americans shied away from them because they carried assault rifles. And so forth. - Ed.

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