The $1 Million Bribe

From left, Gerry Broome/AP; Mark Wilson/Getty; Brendan Smialowski for NYT

You got to love how they cover up their disgraceful feces

Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

Gets better.

They actually had a moral rift because of the bribe:

Blackwater’s strategy of buying off the government officials, which would have been illegal under American law, created a deep rift inside the company, according to the former executives. They said that Cofer Black, who was then the company’s vice chairman and a former top C.I.A. and State Department official, learned of the plan from another Blackwater manager while he was in Baghdad discussing compensation for families of the shooting victims with United States Embassy officials.

Alarmed about the secret payments, Mr. Black cut short his talks and left Iraq. Soon after returning to the United States, he confronted Erik Prince, the company’s chairman and founder, who did not dispute that there was a bribery plan, according to a former Blackwater executive familiar with the meeting. Mr. Black resigned the following year.

My next question, besides the long going obvious question of why the Obama Administration has let these immoral figures run amuck and wild, is who in the hell where the Iraqi officials who took this money?

Al-Maliki, someone else?

People need to know.