{"id":674248,"date":"2010-02-24T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77563"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:11:01","slug":"blackwaterparavant-didn%e2%80%99t-always-tell-the-military-when-it-rolled-through-afghanistan-armed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/674248","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater\/Paravant Didn\u2019t Always Tell the Military When It Rolled Through Afghanistan Armed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave aside the fact that Blackwater\/Paravant employees subcontracted to train Afghan security forces <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77527\/blackwater-concedes-its-trainers-had-no-authorization-to-carry-weapons-in-afghanistan\">never received authorization from the U.S. military to carry guns in Afghanistan<\/a>. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wanted to clarify that Blackwater\/Paravant at least informed the military when its armed guards moved around their battlespace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was Blackwater\/Paravant policy to notify the military when they made a move off the base,&#8221; Brian McCracken, the ex-Paravant vice president who signed off on the unapproved arming of Blackwater trainers in Afghanistan, said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how often it was adhered to or if it was ever adhered to.&#8221;<span id=\"more-77563\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After a bit of a joust about the differences in notifying the U.S. military for armed contractor movements off of an <em>Afghan<\/em> base and an <em>American<\/em> one, John Walker, an ex-Paravant program manager in Afghanistan, told Levin, &#8220;No, we did not&#8221; inform the U.S. military in every case of armed contractor movement around the Afghan war zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave aside the fact that Blackwater\/Paravant employees subcontracted to train Afghan security forces never received authorization from the U.S. military to carry guns in Afghanistan. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wanted to clarify that Blackwater\/Paravant at least informed the military when its armed guards moved around their battlespace. &#8220;It was Blackwater\/Paravant policy to notify the military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PoY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}