Back in 2008, an employee of Blackwater (d.b.a. Paravant) signed for hundreds of automatic weapons, under the name “Eric Cartman.” According to a Senate investigation, the rifles were unaccounted for for months afterward.

Now it looks like the next episode of South Park will be taking a crack at this. Inspired, no doubt, by coverage of the now-infamous Blackwater/Xe/Paravant hearings.

Update: Credit where it’s due. Our friend Spencer Ackerman, it turns out, was the one who actually raised his hand to ask Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, if Blackwater indeed used the South Park character’s name to sign for the guns. “Levin, bless him, appeared to be unfamiliar with ‘South Park,’ a sign that the universe works as it is supposed to,” he writes. Spencer, hope you kept a straight face for that question.

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