Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in which 11 people died, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case had been referred to the Iraqi judiciary.
Clearly we’ve ventured outside of he said/she said territory here. But were it not for investigations into unlicensed automatic weapons shipments, and six other shootings, this would be just an isolated incident.
As the old saying goes, ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ And what is operating under exactly zero laws, if not absolute power?