Fundamentalist fringe-right creep John Ashcroft is now working for fringe-right private death squad contractor Blackwater (since renamed to try to make people forget it's called Blackwater). Hooray for corruption, crony capitalism, disastrous wingnuttery and U.S. death squads:
Xe is the chemical symbol for xenon, one of the inert (or noble) gases. Neither adjective seems to fit the company or the man.