State Dept. intercedes in Blackwater probe

A House panel reveals a letter telling the firm not to disclose information about its Iraq operations without the administration's OK.

The State Department has interceded in a congressional investigation of Blackwater USA, the private security firm accused of killing Iraqi civilians last week, ordering the company not to disclose information about its Iraq operations without approval from the Bush administration, according to documents revealed Tuesday.

In a letter sent to a senior Blackwater executive Thursday, a State Department contracting official ordered the company "to make no disclosure of the documents or information" about its work in Iraq without permission.

Telling administration officials and Cabinet members to keep quiet is one thing, but telling a corporation hired by our government to ignore congressional inquiries is quite another. This begs the question, just how close of a relationship does the White House have with Blackwater that protecting the company is more important than protecting the American taxpayer? What are they hiding? Who is really running the government? Is it our elected officials, or is it the corporations who owns them?

We already know the answer to that, don't we?

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