Starboard Broadside

From Ben Smith at Politico:

The Republican National Committee is planning to raise $60,000 at a fundraiser next month at the North Carolina compound owned by [Xe] the company formerly known as Blackwater.

According to the RNC fundraising presentation I wrote about yesterday, the committee will hold a gathering of its "Young Eagles" -- major donors under 40 -- at the U.S. Training Center in Moyock, North Carolina April 16, an astute reader points out.

Aside from all their episodes of shooting civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan (and even New Orleans after Katrina), there have been allegations of the company's involvement in child prostitution, and they are almost certainly heavily involved in covert CIA-led extrajudicial killings around the world (including drone strikes)... we also know a lot of their top security teams were trained Pinochet death squad members from the Chilean regime. So basically, there's a pretty solid case to be made that Xe-Blackwater is a corporation full of war criminals.

And Republicans love war criminals.