clandestine inegilltence services WAS sold to the multinational Monsanto. When it should say: clandestine inegilltence services WERE sold to the multinational Monsanto. The first implies the company was sold and the second implies the company provided services.Either way, it is a rotten combination to mix mercenaries with corporate agendas. Amy Goodman's interview of Jeremy is excellent and shows the problems of mixing Blackwater, Xe, TSI with the Monsanto agenda.From 16 September 2010 Democracy Now link in Mep's comment:AMY GOODMAN: And, Jeremy, you’re talking about Constellation Consulting Group, or CCG. We want to thank you very much for being with us, Jeremy Scahill. The piece is explosive. It’s at thenation.com. Interesting you raise the issue of Blackwater spying for Monsanto, because tomorrow on Democracy Now! from here in Bonn, we’re going to speak with Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser, who took on Blackwater in a big way. PERCY SCHMEISER: The Parliament in Cape Town of South Africa, and coming out of the Assembly, one of Monsanto’s representatives from Johannesburg ran face-to-face into us, and he lost his cool, and he said to my wife and myself—and he shook his fist in our face and said, Nobody stands up to Monsanto. We are going to get both of you, somehow, some day, and destroy you both. Phone calls my wife would receive: You better watch it. We’re going to get you. They would come into our driveway and watch what my wife would be doing all day. They would use their vehicles and sit on the roads alongside of our farmland, watch us all day long, to try and intimidate us and to put fear into us. end quoteThis is a really bad road to travel. Percy Schmeiser is a real hero. His interview on Democracy Now is excellent as well and was made the day after the Schahill interview.