Here’s A Story About Alleged Bribes That’s Ruining Some Blackwater Execs’ Morning

The New York Times is reporting today that, “Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.” 

A spokeswoman for the company, now known as Xe Services, is quoted in the story as calling the accusations, “baseless.”
 
The company’s former president, Gary Jackson, who allegedly approved the payments, is also quoted in the article as saying, “I don’t care what you write.”
 
We think you probably do.
 
The article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html?hp=&pagewanted=all.