Mighty Sorry, No Body Cares

At this stage of the game we have no memory of sharing any or all of these liberal, biased anti-Blackwater (Hey, that name change worked out pretty well for them, didn't it?) clips from what (barely) passes for a leftish cable infotainment outlet in these United (Murdering) Snakes. As whatever the hell appears here (even repetitively) makes no difference in the greater or lesser scheme of things, if you've seen one or all, change the fucking channel already: No one's holding a gun to your head, are they? (Although if someone is, they probably are "Xe" employee contractors.)We're sure we didn't catch the above from 4 August 2009, or we would have linked to Mr. Scahill's piece in The Nation, as a service for the text-obsessed.Yet we do remember the above juxtaposition of frames of the Crusader King Prince, so we must've thrown those two up at the same time. Maybe the one just below is the one we never got around to. Are you bored yet? We can make it worse.Those who'd really like to wallow in it (& have not been obsessively reading this waste of everything for the last two+ yrs. & too many posts) can search (Look, we did it for you, lazy oafs!) "Blackwater" & "Erik Prince" to see more aggregation & smart-assery from just around two yrs. ago, when Xe Blackwater first made a big news splash. And, more from the Newspaper of Record:

Some Congressional Democrats have hinted that the program was just one of many that the Bush administration hid from Congressional scrutiny and have used the episode as a justification to delve deeper into other Bush-era counterterrorism programs.

But Republicans have criticized Mr. Panetta’s decision to cancel the program, saying he created a tempest in a teapot.

“I think there was a little more drama and intrigue than was warranted,” said Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.

All fair & balanced, huh? Objective, one could say. Like that jerk Hoekstra's insubstantial little whine was worth publishing.