the same can't be said for state department officials, some of whom faced to see the red flags of all of this negligent behavior taken on by the contractor that could have alerted us that these guys needed to be fired. >> that state department memo threatening an investigator came out days before the slotner nisour square. >> the trial of these four former blackwater guards is expected to last months. federal prosecutors say at guards murdered the iraqi civilians without provocation. the defense quns attorneys claimed in court witnesses fabricated their stories prior to the trial. to another criminal case, one that keeps getting weirder and we'der, also seven years later, amanda knox's onetime boyfriend maybe torpedoed her alibi. rafael so see the toes who is stood trial beside her told reporters at a news conference that knox's version of what happened is imagination and