The shocking story of how the American government charged brave veterans with phony war crimes to placate foreign autocrats.
Gina Keating is proud of being a liberal and a journalist. She always has been. So when Keating first looked into the Raven 23 case, she expected to find the government doing its job, giving its war fighters a fair trial. Instead, she found that Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and Barack Obama had rammed four Americans' convictions through the courts. It would take Donald Trump's eleventh-hour pardon to correct this terrible miscarriage of justice. These discoveries, and her subsequent investigation, would flip Gina's world upside down.
The events in Nisour Square, Baghdad, constituted one of the most tragic events of the Iraq War. Blackwater employees Dustin Heard, Paul Slough, Nick Slatten, and Evan Liberty fired "unprovoked" into a crowd of civilians. At least, that's how the official story went. But that story was a lie. In fact, the former servicemen had been fired on by insurgents and had engaged according to the rules of war—a reality that the US government would spend the next decade suppressing as DOJ wasted countless taxpayer dollars prosecuting innocent men.
Raven 23 charts the story of the government's battle against justice, which spanned a decade, three trials, and numerous twists and turns. Full of shocking revelations of prosecutorial misconduct and depravity at the highest levels, Raven 23 is a must-read exposé of how the justice system was weaponized against men who risked their lives to keep their country safe.
Based on a decade of reporting, this explosive work of investigative journalism reveals:
- Government Cover-Up: The step-by-step story of how the Department of Justice suppressed evidence of an insurgent attack to create a false “massacre” narrative that served a political agenda.
- Prosecutorial Misconduct: A shocking chronicle of withheld evidence, tainted witness statements, and the unethical tactics used by prosecutors to condemn innocent men.
- High-Level Political Pressure: The disturbing role of top officials—including Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama—in forcing through convictions to placate foreign leaders.
- A Presidential Pardon: The dramatic final chapter, revealing why it took an eleventh-hour pardon from President Donald Trump to finally expose the truth and free the men of Raven 23.