Good money for dirty work when you get it, and when it turns to shit you
simply pass the buck, deny you have any culpability. Blackwater are trying
similar tricks and making it hard for even government prosecutors to get
anything to stick. Just as I'm sure the original agreements were designed to
deliver in such circumstances.

"Here's a big honey pot stuffed with billions of tax payer dollar bills.
Take your fill, we'll ask no questions, and if it all goes tits-up we'll
make sure you're protected from the consequences. We've some sacrificial
lambs if we need to find them. Go ahead, have fun, make yourselves rich,
we're all skimming off the top so you may as well".

Words one would of course not hear coming from the Oval Office. Honest.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008206321_apmdabughraiblaws
uits1stldwritethru.html

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Defense contractor CACI is claiming immunity from an Abu Ghraib torture
lawsuit because it was doing the government's work by supplying
interrogators to the U.S.-run prison in Iraq, according to court documents.

Eleven low-ranking U.S. soldiers have been convicted of breaking military
laws by abusing detainees whose degrading treatment, including being held
naked on leashes, was revealed in widely seen photographs, but no
contractors have been charged in the scandal.

Titan Corp. successfully used an immunity defense in winning dismissal last
year of similar allegations its translators faced in a federal civil case in
the District of Columbia; the plaintiffs are appealing.

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8j2u56IMqRcZhCnXxakvpIEJ3-QD9383LS80

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense attorneys for Blackwater Worldwide are trying to
head off Justice Department charges against bodyguards involved in the
deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians exactly one year ago.

Blackwater maintains its convoy was under attack before it opened fire in
self-defense. Follow-up investigations by the Iraqi government and the U.S.
military, however, concluded that Blackwater's men were unprovoked.

Meanwhile, the government's investigation has hit several legal snags -
chief among them promises of limited immunity to the guards.

Additionally, the Blackwater attorneys argued that the Justice Department
would not be able to prove it has jurisdiction to bring criminal charges.

Blackwater and other contractors operate in a legal gray area. They are
immune from prosecution in Iraqi courts. If the Justice Department wants to
bring criminal charges such as assault, manslaughter or murder in a U.S.
court, prosecutors would have to do so under the Military Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction Act.

That would require the government to show that State Department contractors
were "supporting the mission of the Department of Defense overseas."
Blackwater, however, claims that its contract guarding diplomats was a
purely a State Department function, one independent from the Pentagon.

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