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Jeremy Ridgeway, a former Blackwater guard, pleaded guilty to the massacre in 2007 in Nissor Square in Baghdad. He testified against the other guards. He accepted responsibility. But he didn't get a pardon.

John M. Crisp File photo: From left: Blackwater Worldwide security guards Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Donald Ball, Nicholas Slatten, and Dustin Heard appear in federal court with their attorneys. President Donald Trump pardoned the four mercenaries who killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 We are witnessing something extraordinary in American history: a president, defeated at the polls, is bent on wreaking as much damage to our republic as possible as he leaves office. By the time you read t...