Blackwater Employee: Operations in Baghdad Were ‘Flat Out Sloppy’

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Also in Waxman’s report on the 2004 lynching of Blackwater contractors in Fallujah is an expletive-laden internal assessment of the quality of the company’s Baghdad shop at the time.

One Blackwater employee described it as “flat out a sloppy f**king operation” and further stated:

The caliber of most of the people here is not what it needs to be. More training, more discipline, and a more selective screening process are needed. … Some of these lazy f**ks care about one thing, money. I suggest if you continue to employ that kind of trash, that you develop a way to use “their money” as a way to get them to do some f**king work. This “I’m not in the military any more, I can do as I please/ I know I can’t afford to loose [sic] more guys” bulls**t is a non-starter.

Waxman is holding hearings next week on Blackwater and Iraq contracting corruption issues. It’ll be interesting to hear Blackwater explain how its standards have improved from 2004 to 2007. After all, they’ve gotten more State Department work than any other contractor, so they must be getting better — right?

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