Blackwater CEO, Erik Prince, defends his company in an exclusive interview with Newsweek. An excerpt:

Explain why you don’t like the word mercenary. It’s just not accurate to call us mercenaries, because you have Americans working for the American government. That in no way meets the definition of a mercenary. So I think mercenary is a slanderous term, kind of an inflammatory word [used] to malign us. Taking U.S. military or law-enforcement veterans and putting them back to work and using the skills that they have acquired over the years to teach other U.S. active-duty military, law-enforcement units, [is] just filling the gaps that exist in the U.S. military.