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Evil (But Not) Geniuses

‘Blackwater’, well-known mercenaries and perhaps war criminals, are tired of you beating them up over various instances of fraud and bad-acting. So they’ve come up with the ingenious plan to rename themselves with a word you can’t pronounce — Xe.

Noooooooowww, just try to give them a hard time when you can’t pronounce their name!

Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com.

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