Blackwater CEO Erik Prince said his “understanding” is that his company is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act and the War Crimes Act. Well, asked Betty McCollum (D-MN), is the State Department, who hired Blackwater, under the UCMJ?
“I wouldn’t be presumptuous to answer for the State Department,” Prince replied. So it’s just a “feeling” Prince has, that Blackwater is under the UCMJ, McCollum asked? “Legal opinions I respect” indicate as such, he said. But he couldn’t state that for a fact? “That’s correct.”
