Photo Gallery Outsourcing War
A US district court is expected to decide this week whether the Bush administration's relationship with the private security company Blackwater should be reexamined. This 2005 photo shows a Blackwater helicopter in Baghdad.
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Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and former owner: Attorney Susan Burke alleges that Prince created a "culture of lawlessness and unaccountability" at Blackwater, where the "excessive and unnecessary use of deadly force" was commonplace.
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This July 2008 photo shows Prince at Blackwater's offices in Moyock, North Carolina.
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After the al-Qaida attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, then-President George W. Bush (seen here leaving Washington on Jan. 20, 2009 after Barack Obama's inauguration) and Vice President Dick Cheney began using large numbers of private security contractors for the first time. Erik Prince's company Blackwater was one of them.
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In June, Leon Panetta, Obama's new CIA director, told lawmakers in a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill about a secret program to kill or capture al-Qaida operatives that was begun eight years ago. According to Panetta, Cheney asked the CIA not to disclose the covert program to Congress.
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A Blackwater training facility: The company has now renamed itself Xe Services.
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Blackwater contractors take part in a firefight in the Iraqi city of Najaf in this 2004 photo. Seventy percent of Blackwater's contracts with the government were no-bid contracts.
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