Monday, October 29, 2007

Immunity Deals Offered to Blackwater Guards

 
More incompetence...
 
could complicate efforts to prosecute the company's employees involved in the episode, government officials said Monday.  The State Department investigators from the agency's investigative arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, offered the immunity grants even though they did not have the authority to do so, the officials said. Prosecutors at the Justice Department, who do have such authority, had no advance knowledge of the arrangement, they added.

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