Another Blackwater story ignored by MSM

As I write this, it's nearly midnight Saturday night and I just got around to seeing this Legal Times story in my email from yesterday, via the outstanding Law.com Daily Newswire, which I receive M-F.


Though this happened Wednesday, there's been absolutely nothing about this Blackwater story anywhere in the MSM, including in the New York Times at their Blackwater USA topic area, which seldom misses anything.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/blackwater_usa/index.html?inline=nyt-org

I did a quick Google search for news articles on Blackwater since these papers were filed.
The only thing that's been written about this is the Law.com piece.
That's it.

That's the whole list.


It's not that I think this is a hugely important story, per se, but when they're actually suing their former attorneys for malpractice, including Fred Fielding, how can everyone ignore it?

Yet they are.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1201169145676

Legal Times
Blackwater Hits Wiley Rein With $30 Million Malpractice Suit
Attila Berry and Joe Palazzolo
January 25, 2008

Blackwater Security filed a $30 million malpractice suit against Wiley Rein on Wednesday, alleging that the firm made costly missteps in a wrongful death case brought on behalf of four former Blackwater employees who were killed in Iraq in 2004...


Speaking of Blackwater, and how it's being used as shorthand for agitprop, see this Denver Post story of yet another Democratic congressional candidate misunderstanding his tiny role in the wider world, by doing something so egregiously stupid and self-defeating: mocking Iwo Jima.


As an American who used to spend quite a lot of time near the memorial in Arlington, and who actually has a photo of it on my blog's main page, I find that highly offensive.


I guess the DCCC couldn't find some rich, self-financing moderate Dem in the supposed fertile West, who understood in his gut that mocking an iconic image like that is not good for anyone.

All you show is that you're Not-Ready-For-Primetime, a person NOT worth considering for Congress.


I mean when you've reached so far below political common sense as to allow yourself to be publicly -and fairly- attacked by Veterans who are actually against our actions in Iraq, you've really hit a new low as a preening, antiwar Dem desperate for attention.
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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8080387

Denver Post
More sparks in Polis, Fitz-Gerald race
By Curtis Hubbard
January 25, 2008


A veterans group lashed out at the Jared Polis congressional campaign today for what it called "offensive" editing "for political purposes" of the iconic picture of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima.
The Boulder Democrat recently sent a mailer to voters in which the original photo was shown alongside an edited version that featured the logo of the Blackwater security firm superimposed on the flag...


As to the various stories on the physical look/repair of the Blackwater vehicles in Iraq, if you're at all interested in getting the greatest number of facts, see the AP story USA Today ran two weeks ago titled, Blackwater fixes hinder shooting probe
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-01-12-blackwater_N.htm


The response from Blackwater to the article:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/01/more-on-blackwa.html

More on Blackwater
Anne E. Tyrrell, Blackwater Worldwide - Moyock, N.C.


And then the other reader comments to the story:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-01-12-blackwater_N.htm#uslPageReturn