Feds to use BS rule against Blackwater

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

WASHINGTON – Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences under an aggressive anti-drug law being considered as the Justice Department readies indictments, people close to the case said.

Charges could be announced as early as Monday for the shooting, which left 17 civilians dead and strained U.S. relations with the fledgling Iraqi government. Prosecutors have been reviewing a draft indictment and considering manslaughter and assault charges for weeks. A team of prosecutors returned to the grand jury room Thursday and called no witnesses.

Though drugs were not involved in the Blackwater shooting, the Justice Department is pondering the use of a law, passed at the height of the nation's crack epidemic, to prosecute the guards. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 law calls for 30-year prison terms for using machine guns to commit violent crimes of any kind, whether drug-related or not.

This is coming out of the still supposed to be the Bush Justice Department? This is out-freakin-rageous. If the government decides to do this I will be completely disgusted. Blackwater hate is an established practice for far too much of the left, but FFS if they are wiling to do this now, how much worse can it get?

Obviously contractors working on US government projects need to be accountable, but using some arcane BS law designed to respond to the TV series Miami Vice is wrong. I don't believe for a second that these men were wantonly shooting up downtown Baghdad for thrills. I also question the politicized nature of the investigation of the incident and it is fair to say the Iraqi government wants scalps.

I see the potential for a railroading of these men to soothe both the Iraqis and the hordes on Obama's left. I don't know what happened on the ground, but what's happening back here smells.

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Feds to use BS rule against Blackwater

WASHINGTON – Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences under an aggressive anti-drug law being considered as the Justice Department readies indictments, people close to the case said.

Charges could be announced as early as Monday for the shooting, which left 17 civilians dead and strained U.S. relations with the fledgling Iraqi government. Prosecutors have been reviewing a draft indictment and considering manslaughter and assault charges for weeks. A team of prosecutors returned to the grand jury room Thursday and called no witnesses.

Though drugs were not involved in the Blackwater shooting, the Justice Department is pondering the use of a law, passed at the height of the nation's crack epidemic, to prosecute the guards. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 law calls for 30-year prison terms for using machine guns to commit violent crimes of any kind, whether drug-related or not.

This is coming out of the still supposed to be the Bush Justice Department? This is out-freakin-rageous. If the government decides to do this I will be completely disgusted. Blackwater hate is an established practice for far too much of the left, but FFS if they are wiling to do this now, how much worse can it get?

Obviously contractors working on US government projects need to be accountable, but using some arcane BS law designed to respond to the TV series Miami Vice is wrong. I don't believe for a second that these men were wantonly shooting up downtown Baghdad for thrills. I also question the politicized nature of the investigation of the incident and it is fair to say the Iraqi government wants scalps.

I see the potential for a railroading of these men to soothe both the Iraqis and the hordes on Obama's left. I don't know what happened on the ground, but what's happening back here smells.

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