The CIA HATES competition (See: NYTimes June 2012), even when Blackwater does the gun-running (and the Wall St Journal needs revenue… paywalled):



A group led by a former Pentagon official (and FORMER BLACKWATER EXECUTIVE -ed) devised a plan to supply moderate Syrian rebels with weapons sourced in Eastern Europe and financed by a wealthy Saudi, and it ran into flak from the CIA

According to LawFare From Wikipedia Blackwater… Not just killers of ‘in-the-way’ Iraqi civilians and supplier of weapons to al-Qaeda in Syria but implicated in the smuggling of CPA Glock pistols to the Kurdish PKK and the Turkish underworld. The Waxman investigation into Blackwater after the Nisoor Square massacre in Iraq held the hearings about Blackwater’s gun-running in secret session, but the truth, as we see here, WILL come out. Even money bet Schmitz was the person responsible for that gun running operation as wellSchmitz’ website … He’s a “Lawyer” “Providing value-added Legal and Private Sector Inspector General professional services that reflect the core values of Integrity, Transparent Accountability, Disciplined Teamwork, and Independence.”