Blackwater seeps into domestic law enforcement

By Libby

You might read about this raid on a medical marijuana dispensary and think it was disgusting but not particuarly remarkable. Just your customary SWAT team thuggishness.

At the dispensary agents left behind trash, counters strewn with open and empty glass jars, piles of receipts thrown on the ground, upturned couch cushions, bits of marijuana on the edges of counters and an ATM with its doors torn open and emptied.

In the residents' rooms a safe was cut open, dresser drawers pulled open, and rumpled clothes and knickknacks thrown on the ground. An outdoor vegetable garden had plants uprooted, along with marijuana plants removed by the agents. [...]

Clyde Carey, 50, of Marina del Rey was at the store Friday visiting a friend when agents burst in through the locked front door, he said.

"We heard some noise outside, and then the door literally burst in, and the DEA came in in full combat gear, told everybody to get on the floor and put their hands behind their heads," Carey said. "It was like, literally, an episode of "24," when they bust in on a terrorist cell."

Nothing unusual in that but here's where it gets interesting. If you look closely at the photo, you'll notice the agent is wearing a Blackwater t-shirt. Now, one might think maybe it was just a freebie from a narc's convention, but Radley tells us that the photo was removed from the gallery after he posted about it. You have to wonder what they're trying to hide.

If that's not enough to make you a little nervous, how about the news [via] that Blackwater is now actively marketing itself to Fortune 500 companies, with the division being run by J. Cofer Black who is also Chairman of Total Intelligence Solutions, a private intelligence gathering group. The same guy who reportedly told an audience at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, that Blackwater could supply a "brigade-sized force on alert." Wouldn't that come in handy for a president who wanted to declare martial law?

Even if Blackwater isn't really assisting the DEA in drug raids, looking at the numerous scandals over their recklessness in Iraq and the reports on their private duty work in NOLA during Katrina, it's clear they're a dangerous 'security' force. The problem is their mission appears to be to keep the government safe from us.

Comments

[Rebecca Saltzman]

The DEA is claiming that the agent was a DEA agent and not employed by Blackwater.

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