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On the day after the boss of Blackwater USA was defending his bodyguards at House hearings (text link), CBS had Elizabeth Palmer lead with their rescue of a wounded diplomat from an ambush in the Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada. Palmer pointed out that Blackwater had the only air rescue team at the American Embassy's disposal when the distress call came in from the Ambassador of Poland: it "shows just how essential the company still is to the American and international presence here in Iraq." NBC's Richard Engel called the insertion of the "little bird helicopter" into the street "heroic." CBS' Palmer noted that Blackwater "is famous for its aggressive use of helicopters in Iraq," including ammunition supplies during rooftop fighting in Najaf and caught-on-videotape stunt aerobatics through "Iraq's most famous war memorials." Back at the Pentagon, CBS' David Martin detected Blackwater-generated friction: his unnamed military source "blamed the State Department for not supervising Blackwater more closely." Martin added that the investigation into Blackwater's killing of up to 17 civilians last month in Baghdad will be removed from the State Department and assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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