Mormon picks murdering mercenary for advisor

The vice president of controversial private security company Blackwater, Cofer Black, has a new position: top counterterrorism adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

Controversial is right: Blackwater fired first in Sunday's attack that left nine people dead --

"A preliminary Iraqi report on a shooting involving an American diplomatic motorcade said Tuesday that Blackwater security guards were not ambushed, as the company reported, but instead fired at a car when it did not heed a policeman's call to stop, killing a couple and their infant."