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After pardon, Blackwater guard is defiant: ‘I acted correctly’ By ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press,Updated January 2, 2021, 9:44 a.m. Email to a Friend Evan Liberty.Susan Walsh/Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Evan Liberty was reading in the top bunk of his cell one evening late last month when a prison supervisor delivered news he had hoped for. “He says, ‘Are you ready for this? Liberty recalled. I said, ‘Uh, I’m not sure. What is going on?’ He said, ‘Presidential pardon. Pack your stuff.’ Liberty is one of four former Blackwater contractors pardoned by President Donald Trump in one of Trump s final acts in office, wiping away their convictions in a 2007 shooting rampage in Baghdad that killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians. Even for a president who has repeatedly exercised his pardon power on personal associates and political supporters, Trump s clemency for the contractors was met with especially intense condemnatio

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