CIA Outsourced 'Death Squad' Work to Blackwater 7.70K The Cajun Boy 08/20/09 04:17AM Filed to: freelancers freelancers Dick Cheney blackwater Cia As part of Dick Cheney's secret program to conduct political assassinations, the CIA hired Blackwater, the shady group of Christian vigilantes for hire whose founder was recently implicated in a murder, to assist in the operation. [New York Times]