Monday, October 29, 2007

State Dept fucks up mercenary murder investigation

As reported in the Washington Post, while investigating its own posse of hired gunmen and their part in the Blackwater Massacre, the State Dept. made a little mistake.
The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.

The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 killings and could undermine any effort to prosecute security contractors for their role in the incident that has infuriated the Iraqi government.

"Once you give immunity, you can't take it away," said a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.
If they are tried in an American court the rules of evidence would obviously work against the prosecution, and don't think the Staties didn't know that. But there is a way around this, thanks to Our Dear Embattled Leader. Send them to Guantanamo. When you're in Gitmo, Hell Knows, Anything Goes!

Addendum: They probably did it for the Presidunce's amusement, like this.

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