DOJ preparing to charge blackwater guards in Iraq killings »
Posted By tehranchik 1 year, 4 months ago in News
The US Justice Department has sent so-called target letters to six Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 16 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians , the Washington Post reported Sunday.
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Spadecaller1 year, 4 months ago
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As usual, they might throw some low level criminals into the fire, but the real crooks and bosses involved go untouched. Just watch, if there are any sentences, they will not be strict or carried out. They will be quietly "pardoned"... like Lt. Wm Calley who was found guilty of slaughtering hundreds of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai. Nixon pardoned him.
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tehranchik1 year, 4 months ago
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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/even-kangaroos-were-offended-by-digby_14.html
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Dennis2421 year, 4 months ago
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What? The DoJ seems to think it needs to apply some justice. The question is: Is this for real, or is it just a kangaroo court?
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The "Doj" needs to go to Iraq, and expose their arses, to attacks, by people who'll eagerly die, for the pleasure of killing Americans. I think we need a few nukes to go off, in our major cities, say, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, La, Dc. When this happens, it will galvanize most Americans, to our defense. Even then, you'll have many of the "politically Correct, saying "let's wait, until we're sure they really want to kill us."
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Charlson1 year, 4 months ago
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If it was regular soldiers in our armed forces that committed these acts, they would most likely be held accountable for their actions...at least court-martialed and tried. But not the mercenaries, the contractor's private army have no accountability at all.
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hyperbola1 year, 4 months ago
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Frankly I think this is a token "application of justice" to preserve the charade of "legality". If our DOJ were halfways reputable, there are criminals everywhere they could be prosecuting - including in their own department.
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The Mukasey Doctrine
Prior to his confirmation, Michael Mukasey fessed up, in a written response to Senator **** Durbin, to a meeting the White House arranged with a group of movement conservatives. The team he met with had a simple agenda: They wanted his assurance that he would not appoint special prosecutors to go after administration figures involved in serious scandals at the Justice Department, including the U.S. attorneys scandal and the introduction of torture with formal Justice Department cover, and they wanted his assurance that Justice would continue to provide legal cover to “the Program.” The team who met Mukasey included figures on the periphery of the scandal who may have had personal reasons to fear an investigation. But Mukasey is clearly keeping the understanding that brought him to the cherished post of attorney general. And that’s bad news for the Justice Department and its reputation.
Today he addressed the annual convention of the American Bar Association, and expanded upon what may be known to future generations as the “Mukasey Doctrine.” This doctrine holds that political appointees in the Justice Department who breach the public trust by using their positions for partisan political purposes face no punishment for their crimes. ....
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003387
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