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Xe, Formerly Known As Blackwater, Changes Name To Academi

Ryan J. Reilly | December 12, 2011, 10:30AM

The company formerly known as Blackwater is now the company formerly known as Xe.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the security contractor is announcing it's switched its name to Academi, all part of an effort to be more "boring."

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Topics: Academi, Blackwater, Xe Services

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Blackwater Contractors Want Closed Court During Appeal

Ryan J. Reilly | January 24, 2011, 10:50AM


private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Defense lawyers for five former Blackwater contractors who allegedly shot into a crowd during an incident in Baghdad's Al Nisur Square in 2007 want the press and the public excluded from oral arguments next month, Politico reports. The former contractors with the controversial firm are fighting to uphold a judge's dismissal of the case against them related to the attack, which left 14 Iraqis dead. The judge ruled the case should be thrown out because of missteps by prosecutors.

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Topics: Blackwater, Freedom of Information Law, Privacy, Xe, Xe Services

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Blackwater CEO Shopping Book and Movie Script; Says Obama Administration Approved Operations

Ryan J. Reilly | September 10, 2010, 12:13PM

Hollywood, get ready. Erik Prince -- the chairman of the controversial private security firm formerly known as Blackwater -- is shopping a memoir and has worked on a script that would provide enough material for several movies The Washington Post's Spy Talk Blog reported Friday.

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Topics: Blackwater, CIA, Erik Prince, Obama Administration, Xe, Xe Services

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Blackwater To Pay $42 Million For Violating Export Control Regulations

Ryan J. Reilly | August 23, 2010, 9:42AM


A Blackwater employee

Xe Services, the private security company formerly known as Blackwater, has reached a settlement with the State Department in which the company will pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of U.S. export control regulations, the New York Times reported.

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