http://www.nola.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/base/politics-10/1149551367250790.xml&storylist=washington

Joseph E. Schmitz, who resigned last September to
become chief operating officer for the Prince Group, a
division of Blackwater USA, which provides security
services to troops in Iraq and around the globe.

ABOUT BLACKWATER & THE PRINCE GROUP

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/september26-30.htm
Blackwater maintains the largest private military
training facility in the United States....
Blackwater's CEO and co-founder is Michigan-based Erik
D. Prince, an ex-US Navy SEAL, an heir to an
automobile parts corporate fortune, a former intern
for President George H. W. Bush, and a contributor to
such right wing Republicans as recently indicted Tom
DeLay. Prince also has strong political links to Sen.
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Family Research Council
President Tony Perkins, one-time GOP presidential
candidate Gary Bauer, a political action committee
called "Restoring the American Dream," (whose board of
directors included Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour,
Robert Bork, former Rep. Steve Largent, Domino's Pizza
founder Thomas Monaghan.... Blackwater is far removed
from oversight by government inspectors general,
Freedom of Information Act requests, the Government
Accountability Office (GAO), and snooping reporters.

http://prospect.org/comment/11745
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