U.S. Still Using Security Firm It Broke With

$400 million in contracts to protect diplomats; while our soldiers are dying doing the same jobs for a lot less. The U.S. contracts Blackwater because the contractors are not controlled by the public.  They have impunity to do things that our soldiers would be court marshaled for.  It is scandalous.  Check the whole story:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/us/22intel.html