Jeremy Scahill Interview

What if there was a private corporate army in America whose owners were Christian extremists with a far right political agenda, and they had some of the same firepower as the U.S. army but almost none of the accounability? What if they were unleashed in Iraq, Afghanistan -- and even America? There IS such an army, and they have been unleashed (even here at home) by the Bush Administration -- with billions of OUR tax dollars. This serious threat to our democratic republic has been frighteningly documented in the new book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army." Hear an interview with the author, Jeremy Scahill.