**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EXCLUSIVE: Blackwater Contractor’s 30-Year Sentence Quietly Commuted—No News Coverage, No Congressional Inquiry. Who Benefits from the Silence?

Washington, D.C. — In a story that has received almost zero mainstream media attention, former Blackwater security contractor Jenny Slatten—the only member of the infamous “Raven 23” convoy to be convicted of murder for the 2007 Nisour Square massacre—has had her life sentence quietly commuted to time served.

Slatten, who was originally handed a 30-year sentence in 2019 for the deaths of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians, walked out of a federal detention center last week with no press release, no DOJ statement, and no congressional hearing.

The official explanation: “procedural irregularities” in her trial, including evidence that key testimony had been “influenced” by undisclosed immunity deals.

But skeptics are asking: If the State Department was so concerned about due process, why wait seven years? And why the silent release?

The timing is raising eyebrows. Slatten’s release comes just weeks after Congress quietly approved $300 million in new “security consulting” contracts—several of which are held by former Blackwater (now Academi) executives.

Meanwhile, the families of the Nisour Square victims—who received zero compensation from the U.S. government—were not notified of the release.

Who gains from this quiet disappearance? Jenny Slatten is free. The narrative is erased. And the private military industry continues to operate without a single senior executive or contractor serving time for the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. military contracting history.

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