Blackwater guards offered immunity by investigators without the authority to do so
In a moment of rash stupidity, State Department investigators are reported to have offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity.
The State Department investigators from the agency’s investigative arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, offered the immunity grants even though they did not have the authority to do so, the officials said. Prosecutors at the Justice Department, who do have such authority, had no advance knowledge of the arrangement, they added. NYTimes
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