If confirmed as the next US Secretary of Defense, Hagel will have to cope with a company, long-accused of using its cozy government ties to dodge the hands of justice. Last week, private contractor firm AcAdemi, formerly known as Blackwater, escaped with little more than a slap on the wrist over a new arms smuggling scandal. Michael O'Brien, author of a book called 'America's Failure in Iraq', thinks it's essentially immune to prosecution.
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