ARTICLE: Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died, By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN, New York Times, November 10, 2009

Depending on how this goes down, it could spell the effective end of Blackwater/Xe. Attempting to bribe foreign government officials, while a lot of other governments do this at will, breaks a key American rule set known as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

One thing to get past the "mistakes were made" shooting, but another to get caught in something premeditated like this.