My, my, are they angry with Glenn Beck and Judge Napolitano:

Media Matters: Despite contractor corruption, Beck and Napolitano back use of “private army” in Afghanistan

You know who else backs a “private army” in Afghanistan? Hillary Clinton’s State Department:

KABUL, Afghanistan — Part of the company once known as Blackwater Worldwide has been awarded a more than $120 million contract to protect new U.S. consulates in the Afghan cities of Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif, the U.S. Embassy said Saturday.
The United States Training Center, a business unit of the former Blackwater, now called Xe Services, was awarded the contract Friday, embassy spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
The company won the contract over two other American firms — Triple Canopy and DynCorps International, she said. The one-year contract can be extended twice for three months each for a maximum of 18 months.
Under the name Blackwater, the Moyock, North Carolina-based company provided guards and services to the U.S. government in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere but came under sharp criticism for its heavy-handed tactics in those missions.
It has been trying to rehabilitate its image since a 2007 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square that killed 17 people, outraged the Iraqi government and led to federal charges against several Blackwater guards.

The State Department, however, is now trying to explain its decision:

State Department officials struggled to explain Monday why they have awarded a new $120 million contract to a private security firm that was kicked out of Iraq four months ago amid charges that its personnel gunned down unarmed civilians.
Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, was awarded an 18-month contract to provide security at two new consulates the State Department is building in Afghanistan, it was reported Friday night.
On Monday members of the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting hammered a State Department official about the contract, but failed to elicit information about how the firm’s conduct in Iraq figured into the decision to give it new work in Afghanistan.
Commissioners repeatedly asked Charlene Lamb, assistant director of the State Department’s International Programs, how much weight would be given to federal charges that Blackwater’s guards killed unarmed civilians in Iraq.
Later, pressed further on the criteria for evaluating contractors, Lamb contradicted herself.

Maybe the State Department could ask Glenn Beck to help explain the decision?