On Monday, attorneys for the four former Blackwater guards currently on trial for the 2007 killings of 14 Iraqi civilians, police officers and army personnel in Baghdad argued that the federal government knowingly suppressed evidence for the case. The evidence in question -- photographs of eight spent shell casings fired at the scene of the
Federal Government Accused Of Withholding Evidence In Blackwater Trial
U.S. Attorney says “a series of innocent oversights” resulted in the loss of evidence that would support assertions that the defendants were returning fire in Baghdad in 2007.