Page 18 - Security Contractors News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ambassador and it was on 9/11. so, i want you to take us back to the beginning. for people who don't know this job, contractors, how do you explain it to them? >> private security contractors. for us, it was protection. protecting cia case officers overseas. doing low profile protection. >> how did the hierchy work here? >> chief of base, main guy this charge. >> that was bob? >> yes. >> and then you have the team. which would be in charge of us. >> and our team lead er is a staffer. an employee for the ac and then all us contractors are like if you talk military wise, like the enlisted folks....

Ambassador and it was on 9/11. so, i want you to take us back to the beginning. for people who don't know this job, contractors, how do you explain it to them? >> private security contractors. for us, it was protection. protecting cia case officers overseas. doing low profile protection. >> how did the hierchy work here? >> chief of base, main guy this charge. >> that was bob? >> yes. >> and then you have the team. which would be in charge of us. >> and our team lead er is a staffer. an employee for the ac and then all us contractors are like if you talk military wise, like the enlisted folks....

Use of private security guards. my understanding is that the country of libya, is host nation in this case did not allow your security contractors to carry firearms. the blue mountain guards. i think the blue mountain guards were not allow to carry firearms, is that right? >> blue mountain was not. certainly our diplomat security officers were. the militia members who were supposed to be providing din etic help for us were. so it was only the static guards that were not. now, i will say that some of those guards did stand their ground. they were basically run over. several of them were injured...

Thank you. in other campus newspaper has the budget cut in half. the student assembly at wesleyan university in connecticut lost $17,000 from the paper's budget which could limit the number of issues printed each semester. there have been calls to boycott the ar gus, that's after an op-ed argued that the black lives movement was undermined by extremists calling for violence against police. the upcoming movie about the 2012 benghazi attack sparking controversy in libya. locals and officials calling 13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi an insult to the north african nation. the unrelease...

That will not be kept. we are a party that will keep our commitments and every promise we make is paid for. that is the difference between the labor party and the conservative party. >> labor is in a neck and neck race with prime minister david cameron's conservative party. he plans to release the conservative manifesto on tuesday. security contractors have each received long prison sentences in the u.s. their roles in the baghdad mats sa kerr. the men, all u.s. military veterans working as civilians. 17 iraqis were killed. the fbi found 14 of the deaths were unjustfied. one contractor was s...