An image associated with the word “irony” is Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla) being rescued by the military contractors Xe Services, formely known as Blackwater.

For those not familiar with Grayson’s relationship to Blackwater, he was the congressman who went after, and sued, military contractors. Blackwater, now named Xe Services, was one of those contractors.

During a Senate hearing on government oversight of security contractors, Alan Grayson’s “little airlift” out of a violent military coup in Niger was the topic of discussion. Xe Services executive vice president Fred Roitz reminded members in the Senate hearing that his company, via its subsidiary Presidential Airways, rescued Rep. Alan Grayson from a deadly situation.