One of the greatest dangers Bush has brought to the nationis the installation of over 100 lobbyists to regulator positions under his administration. After reading...

When Advocates Become Regulators

I thought to myself "Geez, these guys are going to allow the big corporations to get away with murder!"

Then today I ran across...

License to Murder

Richard J. Griffin, who is rumored to have special ties to the Blackwater gang and was the person responsible for granting the immunity...



just resigned his post last week.

The imunity was granted by him even though he didn't have authority to do so.

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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 said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Prosecutors at the Justice Department, who do have such authority, had no advance knowledge of the arrangement, they added.

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This is a milestone in government outsourcing. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time a contracting agency has ever granted legal immunity to a contractor or contractors' employees faced with potential criminal penalties.

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