Blue Mountain Group organization
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IMF documented
“Blue Mountain. On its website, Blue Mountain noted that it provided security solutions and training services in more than 20 countries around the world, with a client list that included the UN and the International Monetary Fund. Our core e…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 42:23
U.S. State Department funded
Blue Mountain Group documented
“The same questionnaire. You said that at no time did you have contracts with private security companies in Libya? She said, correct. That was not correct. That was a bold-faced lie, and she knew it. In February of that year, the State Depar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 40:00
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▶ 40:53
Bringing to mind the category of funding that the Commission on Wartime Contracting had noted in its final report back in 2011, the one that showed a total expense of $38 billion, they were hiding it under a different line. That particular …
▶ 42:23
Blue Mountain. On its website, Blue Mountain noted that it provided security solutions and training services in more than 20 countries around the world, with a client list that included the UN and the International Monetary Fund. Our core e…
▶ 42:47
Blue Mountain was one of the very few private security companies that was authorized to operate inside of Libya because of a partnership with a local Libyan company. The fact that the company was already working in Libya hastened the U.S. g…
▶ 43:17
all of the checks and balances that were supposed to be done in order to award the contract. In other words, Blue Mountain became a quick fix. Later at a congressional hearing, a former regional security officer for the U.S. Embassy in Liby…
▶ 43:47
full-time employees, we would have to find them a position afterwards. And what were the consequences of this quick convenience? To patrol the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Blue Mountain hired local guards. But who were they? What were t…
▶ 44:47
Victoria Newland came out and corrected herself. Her statement, quote, there was an error in what I said. The external security, external armed security, as we have been saying, outside the perimeter was fully handled by the Libyan side. Th…
▶ 45:17
They were hired to provide local Libyan guards who operated inside the gate doing things like operating the security access equipment, screening cars, that kind of thing. Now, let me just point out again, everything she just said was a lie.…
▶ 45:47
who was doing business in Libya because they weren't allowed to be there doing what they were doing. Someone asked the question. So to clarify, there were contractors by the U.S. State Department or another agency called Blue Mountain. And …
▶ 1:17:00
Yeah. And I knew I did not know about Blue Mountain, but I knew that while they referred to them as Navy SEALs, they weren't over there as Navy SEALs. They were over there as contractors. I would love to know whether Chris Pronto, the guy t…