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The Blackwater Brothers: Conflict of Interest in State Department's IG Office

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. Posted November 16, 2007.


Every day, new revelations emerge in the mounting scandal rocking the Bush Administration and the mercenary company.

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Jeremy Scahill, an independent journalist who reports frequently for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!, has spent extensive time reporting from Iraq and Yugoslavia. He is currently a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Scahill is the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

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