Bravo to Presidential Airways and Xe for a job well done! As for my message to Rep. Grayson….. I am sure glad you survived Niger. Thanks to the courageous work of contractors, you can now make it back home for that next protest with Code Pink. lol -Matt
Edit: 2/25/2010 – Wired posted a deal on this as well. It must have been tough for them to actually post a good story about Xe rescuing a politician. I am sure their fingers were burning as they typed the post. lol
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Rep. Grayson at a Code Pink rally.
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Blackwater executive testifying before Congress today said, in an apparent reference to Grayson: “Xe Services, through its subsidiary Presidential Airways, provides aviation support and medevac services to Defense Department personnel in Africa. Just last week, our personnel evacuated a congressman from Niger during civil unrest.” -TPM
#1 by Andreea Zugravu on Friday, February 26, 2010 - 3:12 am
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He is not the only one. U.S. Sen Claire McCaskill was on a visit to Afghanistan where she was escorted by XE. Upon her return she criticized the company and complained about the double standard in the combat zone, one for contractors, and the other for regular military forces. Gee, Senator, I’m glad you came back safe!
Politicians appear very righteous when they criticize what is really easy to criticize. The fact that they’re not doing the US taxpayer’s a real service is a different story.
#2 by headjundi on Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 5:27 pm
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Thanks Andreea, I was trying to find the particulars of that as well. There is just something funny about a Senator that in one breath rips apart a company, and then turns around and depends upon that same company to protect them. -matt