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3 Dec 2009, 12:43 am
" Â Lawyers for Blackwater Agent Lodge Prosecution Misconduct Charge "For more than a week, in a court hearing closed to the public, Justice Department lawyers defended the prosecution of five Blackwater security guards charged in the fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians who came under fire in a shoot-out in September 2007. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 2:01 am
Richard DurbinLetter Requests a Hearing on Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, Specifically Blackwater Security © Copyright GalleryWatch.com, Inc. (1999 - 2007), provided under license.NO CLAIM TO ORIGINAL U.S. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 2:21 am
How Blackwater Sniper Fire Felled 3 Iraqi Guards"BAGHDAD -- Last Feb. 7, a sniper employed by Blackwater USA, the private security company, opened fire from the roof of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 6:57 am
The tragic killing this week of Iraqis by a North Carolina contractor, Blackwater, appears to have resulted from an extreme case of U.S. preemption. [read post]
24 May 2010, 5:57 am by jamison
(The Blackwater suits were settled for a confidential amount; the Abu Ghraib ones are pending.) [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:31 pm by Jim Walker
No. 8:  Blackwater, BlackWater, Blackwater . . . [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 4:06 am by Jim Walker
  Although the cruise industry claims that it dumps untreated sewage ("blackwater") only 12 miles from shore, the effects of the human waste from thousands of passengers and crew are disastrous. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 2:38 pm by Jim Walker
I have written many articles about the cruise industry's practice of pollution  Here are a few to consider: Earth Day - Spotlight on Cruising - A Dirty Business Cruise Industry: "Notorious Polluters" Reason No. 8 Not To Cruise: Blackwater, Blackwater, Blackwater Reason No. 9 Not To Cruise: Bunker Fuel - Nasty Tar Sludge! [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 8:30 pm by Fakhimi & Associates
In a 90 page ruling which has started a floodgate of criticism, Judge Urbina dismissed the murder charges that were filed against Blacwater contractors who were accused of killing innocent Iraqi civilians in 2007. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 7:15 am
Norbert Wiener Award winner Bruce Schneier points us to a new 117-page paper by Ronald C. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 11:20 am by Sasha Volokh
Indeed, there is seemingly no other explanation for the State Department’s recent practice of renewing contracts with the notorious Blackwater firm after the Obama administration sanctioned Blackwater for illicit arms smuggling, after federal prosecutors brought murder charges against Blackwater employees, and after the American-backed governments in Baghdad and Kabul designated Blackwater employees as personae non gratae. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 12:12 pm by Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
This week’s show, at any rate, catches up on a number of ongoing sagas: The latest twists in the Mueller investigation: Yes, we feel duty bound to talk about the obligation to comply with grand jury subpoenas (looking at you, Sam Nunberg), but we also dig into the surprise emergence of issues involving Erik Prince (of Blackwater fame). [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 9:50 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
While several involved the more typical clemency for non-violent drug offenders, other recipients of a pardon have generated headlines and controversy: two were connected to the Robert Mueller investigation that resulted in the impeachment of President Trump, three more were former GOP congressmen convicted of financial wrongdoing, and four were former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing 14 civilians in Iraq.These latest acts of clemency have not yet been posted to the Justice… [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 4:30 am by The LBN Team
The Justice Department is investigating whether officials of Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firms security work in Iraq after a deadly shooting episode in 2007, according to current and former government officials.Four pensioners have appeared in a German court charged with kidnapping a financial adviser they blamed for making rotten US property investments.Justice Department and cell phone records can be obtained from wireless… [read post]
23 May 2007, 2:11 pm
Possibly also Blackwater, Wackenhut and miscellaneous other purveyors of organized violence who will succeed to the control function once the state at last withers away. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 9:59 am
The Center for Constitutional Rights files an amended complaint (pdf) against Blackwater with new death, injury and drug allegations. [read post]