Even More Change...

Remember when Democrats didn't like Blackwater (now Xe)? Try this on for size:

The State Department has extended a contract with controversial private security firm Blackwater, ABC News has learned. The contract was due to expire this month.

Sources say the department has agreed to temporarily continue using the subsidiary known as Presidential Airways to provide helicopter transport for embassy employees around Iraq until a new contract with another security company, Dyncorp International, is fully implemented. Presidential Airways is an arm of U.S. Training Center, which is a subsidiary of the company Xe, formerly and still commonly known as Blackwater.

Now if it had been George W. Bush doing this, the Democrats, liberals and progressives would have been howling about the use of contractors, and especially about using Blackwater/Xe. But since this is Obama, well, it's different...

Anyone want to bet on whether Blackwater/Xe still has government contracts at the end of Barack Obama's first(?) term?

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[richard mcenroe]

Saw a Halliburton truck in Studio City today. Stuck a 'Thank you' card on it.