Henry Waxman person
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Henry Waxman member_of
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform documented
“But she was present. Also, there were widows, children and siblings and parents of the four Blackwater employees murdered in Fallujah in 2004 and the families of soldiers who died in November 2004 when a Blackwater aviation plane took an un…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 8:21
Henry Waxman exposed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“Waxman, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, had initiated a study in 2006 that showed the cost of federal contracts growing twice as fast as discretionary federal spending. The study noted that 118 contrac…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 25:12
Henry Waxman exposed
Blackwater documented
“And it just so happens that one of his relations that Henry Waxman brought out was, I want to say his brother, that was working with Blackwater. So all of this that was going on with Blackwater concerning how the committee was being steered…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 1:04:15
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how hard it was to track the funds, how quickly privatization had happened. She said, we're in the wake of a speedboat. Congress can't even begin to catch up on the contracting. One of Kaptur's colleagues, Representative Henry Waxman, a Cal…
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Waxman, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, had initiated a study in 2006 that showed the cost of federal contracts growing twice as fast as discretionary federal spending. The study noted that 118 contrac…
▶ 8:21
But she was present. Also, there were widows, children and siblings and parents of the four Blackwater employees murdered in Fallujah in 2004 and the families of soldiers who died in November 2004 when a Blackwater aviation plane took an un…
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Over the past 25 years, a sophisticated campaign had been waged to privatize government services. The theory is that corporations can deliver government services better and at a lower cost. Over the last six years, this theory has been put …
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Those private contractors are all owned by the same oligarchs that start the wars. Our government now outsources even the oversight of outsourcing. Today, we will examine the impact of privatization on our military forces. We will focus on …
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Waxman noted. That's the end of his statement. Waxman noted had been founded in 1997 by its current CEO, former Navy SEAL Eric Prince, whom Waxman, alluding to the Prince family portion, commented, we thank you for your service. As a genera…
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And he noted that privatizing was working exceptionally well for Blackwater. The question was, Waxman said, whether it was working well for the American military, for the security of the American people, and for the American counterinsurgen…
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are the ones responsible for galvanizing resistance that prolongs the occupation. Waxman went on to say, in recent days, military leaders have said that Blackwater's missteps in Iraq has hurt us badly. One senior U.S. military official said…
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Well, it is hard to read these emails and not come to the conclusion that the State Department is acting as Blackwater's enabler. If Blackwater and other companies in this industry are really providing better service at a lower cost, the ex…
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Waxman issued two caveats, that facts and not ideology should guide any judgment of Blackwater and the industry on the part of Congress, and that there should be no question directly related to nicer square incident, which the FBI was curre…
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as well as the Blackwater co-pilots and mechanic. When Waxman told the story, the room was silent and held their breath. The crash into the wall of a canyon in Afghanistan was investigated by a joint Army Air Force task force and by the Nat…
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Blackwater's Afghanistan site manager sent an email to the VP of operations at Blackwater Aviation saying that the initial group of Blackwater pilots hired to support the Afghan operation had background and experience shortfalls. They were …
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was that while Blackwater pilot was inexperienced, one of the passengers, Lieutenant Colonel McMahon, was a skilled military pilot with an exemplary safety record. That's the key difference between hiring private military people and allowin…
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Some would say it is simply a tragic accident, but this accident was due to gross lack of judgment in managing this company, unquote. Waxman again grilled Prince. Mr. Prince, Colonel McMahon, is asking why the taxpayers should be paying you…
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to an agitated Waxman who wanted answers and was most concerned about accountability. Quote, were any sanctions placed on the company after the investigative report came back so critical of Blackwater? He asked. Prince responds, anytime the…
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Were you ever penalized in any way? Were you ever fined or suspended or reprimanded or placed on probation? Prince says, I believe the Air Force investigated the incident and they found that it was the pilot error. It was not due to corpora…
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company as part of Blackwater did not do due diligence in hiring qualified people. So yes, you can blame it on your pilot, but how dare you? Waxman commented, the corporate hired inexperienced pilots. They sent them on a route they didn't k…
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She was the last of the legislators to question Prince. When she was done, Chairman Waxman closed the questioning by expressing gratitude to Prince and his patients. Then he said, in closing, let me just say that we really have had a remark…
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And it just so happens that one of his relations that Henry Waxman brought out was, I want to say his brother, that was working with Blackwater. So all of this that was going on with Blackwater concerning how the committee was being steered…
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was a setup right from the word go i can see it coming that along with henry waxman now henry waxman surprised the stew out of me for a democrat that would do something like this and bring all of this forward to me is sort of unbelievable a…
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to bring this together. But he did. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Well, let me explain what you're watching. Waxman just happened to be sitting in the chair. This is a kabuki dance. So if you have an insistent representative that you do somethi…