The Failed Pacifist

Blackwater's Drunken Killer

Henry Waxman wants to know why the U.S. State Department helped a Blackwater employee leave Iraq less than two days after a December 2006 incident where, while drunk, the 26 year-old firearms technician shot and killed a guard for Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi. The answer from Richard Griffin, the assistant secretary for diplomatic security, could be fairly summed up as "Ummm, I dunno. I wasn't there."

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