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Pardons of Blackwater contractors who killed Iraqi civilians stir angry response

Pardons of Blackwater contractors who killed Iraqi civilians stir angry response
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Trump s Pardons for the Festive Season | Dissident Voice

by Binoy Kampmark / December 23rd, 2020 A flurry of them has been expected, and just prior to Christmas, US President Donald Trump waved his wand of pardon with vigour.  On December 22, the president issued fifteen pardons and five commutations.  The choices so far have been, to put it mildly, problematic. The power to pardon can be found in Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the US Constitution, a provision which states, in part, that the President “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”  That most eminent of judicial heads Chief Justice Marshall described a pardon as “an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.”

Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians by US contractors stir angry response

Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians by US contractors stir angry response 23 Dec, 2020 11:03 PM 6 minutes to read Other The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four US government contractors convicted in shootings that killed that child and more than a dozen other Iraqi civilians. What s the difference, Mohammad Kinani al-Razzaq asked a Washington judge at an emotional 2015 sentencing hearing, between these criminals and terrorists? The shootings of civilians by Blackwater employees at a crowded Baghdad traffic circle in September 2007 prompted an international outcry, left a reputational black eye on US operations at the height of the Iraq war and put the government on the defensive over its use of private contractors in military zones. The resulting criminal prosecutions spanned years in Washington but came to an abrupt end Tuesday when President Donald Trump pardoned the convicted contractors, an

USA: Four Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians pardoned by Donald Trump - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

USA: Four Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians pardoned by Donald Trump - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors in killing of Iraqi civilians stir angry response

Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors in killing of Iraqi civilians stir angry response By Eric Tucker and Ellen Knickmeyer Published  article FILE - Tribal elder Mohammed Shafi stands in the Yaka Toot cemetary near the grave of Romal, 22, who was killed by Blackwater (now known as Xe) security forces in an incident that enraged area residents. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four U.S. government contractors convicted in shootings that killed that child and more than a dozen other Iraqi civilians.

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