Prosecutors who mishandled the investigation into a deadly 2007 Blackwater Worldwide shooting face a possible misconduct citation from a judge who says they withheld evidence and violated the guards’ constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina admonished the Justice Department last week for its “reckless” handling of the investigation into…
The New York Times has found that a federal judge’s decision to dismiss a case against Blackwater on grounds of inadmissible evidence resulted from a problem that was apparent to government lawyers within days of the September 2007 Baghdad shootings. As explained by the Times, the Blackwater guards were required…