WASHINGTON (AP) Evan Liberty, who is from Rochester, New Hampshire, 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, freeing them from prison after 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 condemnation, both in the United States and the Middle East.
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