A few months ago I wrote an article “The Second American Revolution” that was published on a number of web sites. The article contained the following paragraph: “Blackwater’s record in Iraq is a grim testimonial of criminal excess. They have been directly connected to the abusive treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the random killings and brutalizing of Iraqi civilians, and the extortion of information from resistance suspects.”

  
These claims cannot be substantiated and although other security firms have been accused of serious criminal conduct, Blackwater has not.  Blackwater was not involved in the Abu Ghraib scandal at all and I seem to have completely muddled my facts.

I sincerely regret whatever harm I may have caused to either Blackwater or to the various web sites that, through no fault of their own, trusted me to do a better job of fact checking.

Mike Whitney