House Committee Slams Blackwater

The embattled private security firm Blackwater USA has fired 122 of its hired guns in Iraq for a laundry list of bad acts over the last three years, according to a report released on Monday by the Democratic staff of the House Oversight Committee.

The report, which was released the day before the committee is scheduled to hear from State Department officials and Blackwater founder Erik Prince about the use of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, notes that among those terminated 28 were fired for weapons-related incidents, 25 for drug and alcohol violations and 16 for inappropriate or lewd conduct.