Blackwater's new ETHICS chief...wait for it...John Ashcroft!! (Wired)

[nashville_brook]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/blackwaters-new-ethics-chief-john-ashcroft/

Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft

The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow. Yes, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, is now an “independent director” of Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater.

Ashcroft will head Xe’s new “subcommittee on governance,” its backers announced early Wednesday in a statement, an entity designed to “maximize governance, compliance and accountability” and “promote the highest degrees of ethics and professionalism within the private security industry.”

In other words, no more shooting civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan; no more signing for weapons its guards aren’t authorized to carry in warzones; no more impersonations of cartoon characters to acquire said weaponry; and no more ‘roids and coke on the job.

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“This is a company with a strong history of service to its country, and a reputation of best-in-class offerings to its public and private customers,” Ashcroft said in a statement. “I look forward to helping USTC enhance its governance and oversight capabilities as the company moves forward,” referring to U.S. Training Center, another of Blackwater’s many names.

[Solly Mack]

1. Ain't that America....

Snicker.

[spanone]

2. reward the criminals for making them billions.....

[Donnachaidh]

3. blackwater needs to be drowned in a bathtub. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

4. I just these private armies............

[BlueIris]

5. I was wondering when this Slave of Bush would get his reward.

You enjoy it, enabler.

[ProSense]

8. He got his reward

when Chris Christie was elected Governor of NJ.

[Snotcicles]

6. Delete

[rurallib]

7. Ashcroft & Ethics............. Sheeeeeeeeit

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[moodforaday]

10. Well, to be quite fair,

it's *corporate* ethics. The difference is like that between a chair and an electric chair. Or between security and *national* security.

For corporate ethics, Ashcroft is a perfect fit!

[OnyxCollie]

16. If Ashcroft has any questions,

he can call Porter Goss, chairman of the Congressional Ethics Committee.

[RC]

9. John Ashcroft, huh?

The first thing to go will be the girly magazines.

[Blue Owl]

11. Let the vulture soar

Like he's never soared before...
From oily coast, to bankrupt shore...
Let the turkey vulture sooooaaar...

[Lance_Boyle]

12. I hope he anoints his head with *real* black water. n/t

[MineralMan]

13. And no more naked statues at the headquarters building, either.

That's right out with Ashcroft on the job. Those boys will have to cut out the porn, too.

[suffragette]

14. It's a topsy-turvy world we live in

to see Ashcroft, XE *, and ethics all in the same supposedly non-ironic sentence.


* XE, formerly Blackwater and now renamed constantly in an effort to obscure origins

[Iggo]

15. That's the guy who put pants on a statue, right?

Friggin moron.