Trying to Salvage Remains of #Blackwater Case
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/us/trying-to-salvage-remains-of-blackwater-case.html
That shooting in #Nisour_Square, along with the massacre by Marines of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha and the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, became a signature moment in the Iraq war. Five Blackwater security guards were indicted on manslaughter and weapons charges, and a sixth entered a plea deal to testify against his former colleagues.
But over the years, a case that once seemed so clear-cut has been repeatedly undermined by the government’s own mistakes.