{"id":197995,"date":"2007-12-21T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/state-department-knew-blackwater-was-cooking-books-in-2005\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T21:50:00","slug":"state-department-knew-blackwater-was-cooking-books-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/state-department-knew-blackwater-was-cooking-books-in-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Knew Blackwater Was Cooking Books in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department&#8217;s IG report in early 2005 noted that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004964.php\">that Blackwater cited its profit from the contract as a cost it incurred, and billed the government for it &#8212; resulting in what the report called &#8220;a pyramiding of profit.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the second most blatant bit of account theft that I have ever heard of, the first being a guy who noted change as an expense for a non-profit group called the MSR.<\/p>\n<p>He did time, and so should the execs at Blackwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department&#8217;s IG report in early 2005 noted that, &#8220;that Blackwater cited its profit from the contract as a cost it incurred, and billed the government for it &#8212; resulting in what the report called &#8220;a pyramiding of profit.&#8221; This is the second most blatant bit of account theft that I have ever heard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,1179,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-mercenaries","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}