Suprising only if you’re easily surprised:
WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports.
The less sophisticated among you might not understand that the invisible hand sometimes points its M-16 at your head, but I’m sure the rest of us accept this as a clear-cut case of increasing government efficiency by contracting on the free market.
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