Shocker

by digby

Who could ever have predicted this:

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.

Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees. American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.


As trifecta at Dkos writes:
Let's just hope this doesn't get diverted to Joe Lieberman's Subcommittee.
I don't think he's going to have time. Between digging out terrorists in the Army (should we start calling him Tailgunner Joe?) and getting to the bottom of the Czar scandal, he's going to be pretty busy. of course, that will probably work out just fine as far as the MIC is concerned. Would'nt want to rock that boat too hard.

h/t to bb