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Company's contracts with fema and the department of homeland security and says she was told to, quote, back off, and that she, quote, would never win a medal for saving the government money. no, but if the government is able to recover money from blackwater as a result of this lawsuit the davises could claim a percentage as whistle blowers, ms. davis having been fired from that company. her husband a former marine who among other jobs worked as a private security guard in iraq having resigned from blackwater voluntarily. let's call in the washington bureau chief for "mother jones" magazine and...

And there's another front that was recently a case in which five blackwater guards had murder charges against them, they were dismissed. the justice department really botched the prosecution, but that -- that decision is being appealed by the u.s. government. so there are a lot of places where blackwater still has legal liability, public relations liability, and so i'm not sure this lawsuit is going to be the story that breaks its back, but blackwater is still under fire. >> and yet today, iraq ordered about 250 current and former employees of this company now known as "z" to leave the country...

Two stents placed in a coronary artery after he reported chest pains as long ago as tuesday. the breaking news from new york presbyterian hospital. blackwater-gate explodes. double billing for all blackwater travel from the u.s. to the middle east. a pattern of deception on blackwater work in the gulf after katrina. and blackwater's morale welfare recreation department. it consisted of a filipino prostitute whose salary and plane tickets were charged to the united states government. your tax dollars in action. the whistle blowers and their lawsuit, which could finally bring blackwater to its k...

Diplomats, but putting all that aside, in this lawsuit and in other previous allegations, the issue of the use of excessive force in iraq and afghanistan continue to plague blackwater. to me that still is the heart of the issue here because what we're doing, what we've done, not we, not you and i, but what the bush/cheney administration did was to privatize this government responsibility, protecting our own diplomats and handed out to blackwater and other private security firms and has no accountability for what these guys and gals do in the field. we've seen time and time again including that...

Afghanistan wars, this was the brain child of dick cheney who stood to profit personally from this. is there a practical element to this whistle blower suit? could it in some way bring this company down or at least slow it down? >> i don't know. we have to note that this is a lawsuit in which whistle blowers can get the u.s. government to take their side and sue the company and the justice department for whatever reason has elected so far not to join this couple in suing blackwater. but, still, the justice department has an ongoing investigation into whether blackwater bribed iraqi officials a...