Post by: AngelOfThyNight on January 07, 2017, 06:09:17 PM
Reports are swirling over President-elect Donald Trump's apparent decision to bring a private security detail with him to the White House. Given America's checkered experience with private military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump's anti-government rhetoric, and his apparent comfort with commingling state and commercial power, the last thing we need is a Blackwater on the Potomac.
Source: Opinion: The folly of Trump's palace guard (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/SmpG33zPH6g/index.html)