"Civilian Contractors" = Mercenaries?

wtf kind of immunity is it, anyway? diplomatic? give me a fucking break

stupid whores

Hopefully, this doesn't mean immunity from "Iraqi" prosecutions.

oh whatever. they're all getting away scot free just like the telecoms who sold our conversations to the intel community. fuck it. fuck the whole decade.

"Getting away with it" == a given. "Public relations fiasco" == hopefully.

See, eventually the Bush regime will collapse under the weight of scandal, amirite?

Even if not, I can still enjoy a little schadenfreude at seeing Bushco squirm.

"squirm" is pretty far away from "die in a fire" which is what all these people deserve tbh

I think water torture and thumbscrews on the rack would be a lot fairer, L-T.

I only woke up the thread because I was somewhat nervous about this getting buried, but it's looking fairly loud already

Garrity protections generally are given to police or other public law enforcement officers, and were extended to the Blackwater guards because they were working on behalf of the U.S. government, one official said. Experts said it’s rare for them to be given to all or even most witnesses — particularly before a suspect is identified.

“You have to be careful,” said Michael Horowitz, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan and senior Justice Department official. “You have to understand early on who your serious subjects are in the investigation, and avoid giving these people the protections.”

It’s not clear why the Diplomatic Security investigators agreed to give immunity to the bodyguards, or who authorized doing so.

Bureau of Diplomatic Security chief Richard Griffin last week announced his resignation, effective Thursday. Senior State Department officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said his departure was directly related to his oversight of Blackwater contractors.

wow, glad they didn't run Nuremburg

The State Department has just renewed its contract to provide security for U.S. diplomats in Iraq for at least another year. Threats by the Iraqi government to strip Western contractors of their immunity from Iraqi law have gone nowhere. No charges have yet been brought in the United States against any Blackwater guards in the September shooting, either, and the FBI agents in Baghdad charged with investigating whether Blackwater guards committed any crimes under United States law are sometimes protected as they travel through Baghdad by Blackwater guards.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/10/africa/blackwater.php

http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/1112843.html

Erik Prince, who owns Blackwater and Presidential Airways, briefly discussed the lawsuit in a meeting today with editors and reporters at The News & Observer. Prince was asked to justify having a case involving an American company working for the U.S. government decided by Afghan law.

“Where did the crash occur?” Prince said. “Afghanistan.”

Milgram experiment

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/daniel-corbett-navy-seal-jail-serbia-mercenary-yemen

"In 2012, police in Madrid said Bojovic and his men killed a fellow criminal and then ate his flesh and threw his bones in a river"

let those among us who have not gotten a wee bit carried away during a city break cast the first stone

sometimes one can be a bit too chewsy with ones friends.

lads!

it was just desserts