By Michael Zennie A Blackwater security contractor threatened to kill a State Department investigator in Iraq who was looking into allegations of the company's cost over-runs, boozy parties, mistreatment of migrant workers and violence against civilians, according to a newly-released report. Daniel Carroll, Blackwater’s project manager in Iraq, allegedly told Jean C. Richter that 'he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,' in August 31, 2007, Richter claimed in an official report he filed after the fact. But instead of Mr Carroll, a former member of the elite Navy SEAL Team Six, being disciplined, Mr Richter was the one sent home. U.S. Embassy officials in Baghdad told him he had to end his investigation and leave Iraq because he was disrupting the security options Blackwater was providing for diplomatic staff, the New York Times reports.
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Jean C. Richter says a former Navy SEAL told him 'he could kill me at that very moment and no one would do anything about it as we were in Iraq'
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Richter was then ordered to stop his investigation and return to Washington
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His scathing August 2007 report alleges massive abuse in $1billion security contract for State Department employees in Iraq
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Three weeks after report, Blackwater contractors allegedly killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square
The incident caused massive outrage among the @placeholder public and is believed to be one reason Iraqi leaders refused to agree to allow U.S. troops to stay in the country past 2011.