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MURDER, INC.
Blackwater
DEATH FROM ABOVE
The Blackwater founder is trying to assemble his own private air force. Look out below.
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MURKY WATERS
The Trumpworld insider is under scrutiny for his alleged backchanneling with Russia, his work for China, and his plans for Afghanistan. He defends it all in a new interview.
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BLACKENED WATERS
Sources told The Daily Beast that the Blackwater founder spoke with Mueller’s investigators. It is unclear what questions Mueller’s team had or what info Prince shared.
DEFENESTRATION ALERT
Was Maksim Borodin killed by loneliness or—in this country where so many journalists have been murdered—by someone who hated his reporting?
SEEING RED
On the eve of Erik Prince’s testimony before the House’s Russia investigators, his former guns-for-hire are going after the attorney general—who’s caught in the Russia probe, too.
Private Parts
The world’s most notorious mercenary chief is trying to sell the Trump administration on a plan to privatize America’s longest war. But the Pentagon brass are not having it.
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DARK SKIES
A corporate descendant of the notorious guns-for-hire firm just got a $204 million contract to support American troops in Africa.