Garrity protection is NOT immunity - Blackwater controversy

[HardWorkingDem]

People need to quit claiming that under Garrity, Blackwater employees are receiving "immunity".

Normally Garrity protection is for law enforcement and works this way: since police officers are compelled to answer questions about incidents and their jobs, then any information compelled can't be used in a CRIMINAL trial and can only be used administratively. Thus, police officers receive the same sort of constitutional protections as anyone else against self-incrimination when it comes to criminal matters.


I'm not sure how Garrity protection is being afforded to the Blackwater operatives, but it is not the same as immunity. Just a clarification.

[DCKit]

1. We, as a country, have lost our collective minds....

Only since Dumbya came to power has anyone been able to manipulate the masses so easily. Are there drugs in the water?

The suspension of disbelief is amazing to me: They make up a name exactly opposite their true intention for any program they want to shove down our throats and just run with it. Nancy Polosi just about admitted that she'd vote for any * program with "Security" in the title.

Along the same lines, Garrity was never intended to apply to contractors. Again, they have stretched another law or statute beyond breaking point and don't expect anyone to call them on it. Well, us, but that's just us.

[Spazito]

2. I agree, they are different....

and I don't believe the State Department has the authority to offer either immunity or garrity protections.