Emptywheel recently wrote a post about a debate where Candidate Fred Johnson taking Bill Huizenga to task about his support for Blackwater Security/Xe. An excellent post…and it bears emphasizing that the ties between Hoekstra-clone Huizenga and Blackwater Erik Prince run very, very deep.

If Huizenga replaces retiring Pete Hoekstra, we’ll have a staunch, long time ally and bosom buddy for Erik Prince calling the shots in DC — Add in the thousands in campaign contributions from the American Bankers Association AND the Family Research Council and we have one of the most conservative, fundamentalist people setting up shop in congress with relatively little fanfare. As the Dems mock the goofy and scary O’Donnell for her extreme ways, Huizenga is sitting below the radar.

It’s official: Private war criminal Erik Prince is untouchable.

Pepe Escobar, the “extreme traveler” who writes The Roving Eye for Asia Times Online, makes better use of mythology in an analysis of geopolitics than any other journalist I’ve read. His May 1, 2010 article, “The Myth of Talibanistan,” is yet another superlative example.

Jeremy Scahill and Democracy Now!, in today’s exclusive broadcast of secretly recorded audio, expose the malicious political myth-making of Erik Prince.

Appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show last night, Jeremy Scahill brought together his reporting on Erik Prince and Blackwater with the Vanity Fair piece on Prince and a Scott Shane article in the New York Times on expansion of drone attacks in Pakistan. Prince is in damage control mode, but Scahill will have none of it.