Having spent many hours with the innocent Iraqi victims who are permanently maimed and crippled because of the actions of these Blackwater guards, and the heartbroken family members of those killed, I am embarrassed for our country. I believe we will pay a heavy price in our relationships with other countries as a result of these pardons.
I’m so glad that I’m retired and will never again be asked to risk my life and those of my fellow investigators, only to have killers pardoned for purely political reasons.
Can the states go after those convicts, since pardons apparently only apply to Federal crimes?
States can go after those who committed crimes in US but not the Blackwater folks who killed in Iraq.
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born of mistrust of secular governments and in borderlands where central governments have never had strong control – so fundamentalists exercise political control, as well religious efforts