At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering intelligence and help run a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus.

So begins independent journalist Jeremy Scahill's latest bombshell story on the private security contractor formerly known as Blackwater. Published Monday at TheNation.com, the story details Blackwater's covert activities, which are unaccountable to Congress in way that even CIA activities are not. Scahill, the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, has reported on Blackwater for years. He joined Laura in the GRITtv studio to talk about this latest development in the story of the company that seems to pop back up in conflict zones over and over again.