Sauce?  I saw blackbird above, not blackwater Found it in Wikipedia (fwiw) Private sector work (2005 - present)Edit From 2005 to 2008 Black was Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA (later renamed Blackwater Worldwide, then Xe, and finally Academi), a US-based private security firm which is "the biggest of the State Department's three private security contractors".[24] Black resigned in 2008 reportedly after learning of illegal payments to Iraqi officials.[25] I wonder if he left because he didn't get a cut of the "discovered" payments.