Matters Blackwater (Merged thread)

[Stan]

Thanks Stan for the article links. So the DOS gets the FBI to investigate ... under MEJA?
Whoa! I think everyone should read this one.
http://townhall.com/columnists/Jacob...&Comments=true
Makes a case that MEJA does not apply to DOS contractors.

Interesting that. I did find another article (by no means the details that JMM has at his fingertips ).

Law's unclear if U.S. can prosecute Blackwater guards

Who was this employee, and what was his or her function? Would protecting, say, an agricultural attache amount to "supporting the mission" of the Pentagon?

That could be one way of defining whether the act really applies. More broadly the question could be: Five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is the ongoing occupation primarily a military or a diplomatic operation and is the State Department subordinate to the Defense Department in the Iraq venture?

Iraq is a combined operation, in which State supports the Department of Defense and the Department of Defense supports State, each intertwined in service to a unified U.S. objective. So maybe that's the answer, and the Blackwater guards lose on the jurisdiction issue.