Horrified by the Blackwater Pardons
- Data Covid-19 USA — The F.B.I. agent who led the Blackwater investigation and two other letter writers are appalled by the pardon of men who killed innocent civilians.
Trump’s Most Disgusting Pardons
- Data Covid-19 USA — Blackwater mercenaries committed a massacre. Now they’ll go free.
For Trump, Pardons as an Expression of Grievance
President Trump’s grants of clemency to convicted liars, corrupt congressmen and child-killing war criminals are a way to lash out at a system that he believes has treated him and his friends unfairly.
Blackwater’s Bullets Scarred Iraqis. Trump’s Pardon Renewed the Pain.
Iraqi witnesses against Blackwater guards were promised justice after a mass killing in Baghdad in 2007. ‘Today,’ one said, the bullets still in his leg, ‘they proved to me it was just theater.’
