Claim: Pentagon Tried to ‘Intimidate’ Journalist Covering Blackwater

November 27, 2009

michaelmullen Claim: Pentagon tried to intimidate journo covering Blackwater

Source: RawStory

By Daniel Tencer

November 26th, 2009

The office of Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking soldier in the US, tried to intimidate a reporter working on a story about security contractor Blackwater’s operations in Pakistan, the reporter claims.

Jeremy Scahill — whose story alleging secret assassination and bombing campaigns inside Pakistan run by Xe Services, formerly Blackwater, appeared in The Nation on Monday — said he received a phone call from Adm. Mullen’s office the day before the story appeared, informing him that his story “didn’t match up with reality.” Read the rest of this entry »


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