He looks like he’s in great shape for an older guy (or at least one with lots of grey). I see that with a lot of cops. Makes me wonder how widespread steroid use is among our cops/g-men/spooks/servicemen. So reassuring knowing the guys on the other side of that gun or taser might be ready to go berserk any moment. Not to mention the fact that they may be involved in crime.

@Jim White: Thanks for the background link Jim.

You have Davis down cold!

@Duncan: I tried that one out on bmaz and ew – – that Obamaco was going to claim that under quantum theories classified for national security, the parking spot outise of Einstein bagel shares the same temporal plane as the Consulate in Pakistan, but they didn’t bite. ;)

@Jim White: If there’s any dispute about what happened in that parking lot, surely what happened in the Pakistan incident becomes highly relevant in any criminal or civil proceeding.

I’ll agree with bmaz in general, but Maes’ lawyer will certainly try, if for no other reason than to paint Davis as a prototypical homicidal maniac in order to help his client’s case. It’s a gift-wrapped theme with significant press coverage already in circulation, so the “secrecy” aspect will hurt Davis’ defense. The best they can do is hand-waving claims that the “report would show” Davis was a swell misunderstood guy if they could only release it.

I’m also not so sure that the CIA would throw its asset, even blown, under the bus yet. Plame and Edmonds became problems once they started typing, Davis hasn’t started that project, yet. He might know a few things.

@bmaz:
Pakistan. Although his behavior in Colorado is certainly over the top, for someone who didn’t get the parking space he wanted.

Court documents indicate Davis admitted striking Maes first in a dispute over a parking space in front of a bagel store in Highlands Ranch. Maes was with his wife and children when the fight took place. He told investigators that he told Davis to “quit being stupid.” He said he was then hit in the face and fell to the ground and blacked out.

Charges against Davis were increased to a felony when it was found out that Maes suffered a broken back.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/10/04/cia-contractor-in-court-over-felony-assault-charges/?utm_source=home&utm_medium=dl&utm_campaign=cia-contractor-now-faces-felony

The NY Daily News report refers to Davis in Pakistan as ‘a CIA contractor employed by the private security firm Blackwater.’

@Sparkles the Iguana: He’s under contract to the government.

There was a moment when I thought it had gotten as bad as t was going to get. Perhaps it was the day I learned of the “Special Forces presents HOSTEL 3” slaughter of several pregnant Afghan women followed by their using knives to dig out bullets from the bodies–just one of the grisly steps taken to facilitate the cover-up–when I thought, surely, we have reached the nadir of our abandonment of any claim to civility, honor, and decency. I am beginning to believe, however, there are elements of the Davis Affair that are indicative that we are in an even deeper, more hopeless decent.

Kerry, a US Senator, makes a heartfelt promise to the Pakistanis (still our ersatz ally–at least until we actually attempt to invade them, I guess) to investigate the incident. Then, once he has returned to the US with his prize, not only is there no real investigation, there isn’t even the usual PRETEND investigation. Kerry et. al. simply go on as though NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. There is nothing out there but the crickets. At least in the Patkia debacle, we finally admitted “mistakes were made” and a US SOF colonel offered a lamb in ritual appeal for forgiveness.

Then there was that part of the story that we could not promise to investigate then ignore…because it was something we never even admitted happened. Immediately after Davis killed the two men, he called his CIA buddies at the safe house for help. Two CIA ops, laden with automatic weaponry, tear out in a Toyota to rescue Davis. These two unbelievably stupid—but absolutely typical–douche bags drive on the wrong side of the highway at rush hour until they did what their recklessness guaranteed would happened—they killed a teenager. Some poor sod coming home from school on his scooter got in their way, so they tried to run THROUGH him. His mangled remains merged into the car’s front grill so they drive back and forth to dislodge him all the while keeping anyone who might offer assistance to the hapless Pakistani boy at bay by threatening to spray the crowd with gunfire.
Then—and this is the part that is so elegantly illustrative of how the cast of American characters here achieve levels of inhumanity and villainy that would have made Herman Goering cream in his jeans—the two US Scumbags, now that they’ve added an innocent bystander to the carnage, instead of carrying on to rescue Davis FLEE THE SCENE. They race back to the safe house and are spirited out of the country hours later. The US flat out refuses even to engage in a discussion with the Pakistanis that this murder occurred let alone admit we have two naughty little boys who are really going to hear it when Dad gets home. (Though I once could not admit to myself that we have such monsters in our midst, I am confident the two murderous cowards who abandoned Davis have not given a moment’s thought to the innocent life that was snuffed out in service of their vainglorious despicable little spree.)

We ignore the killing of the boy on the bike and a representative of our government (and not one of the usual worthless assholes but someone we thought was on our side) makes faith commitments then forgets them because there is no reason to do otherwise. We have gone far down an unredeemable path, and there is no looking back on a world and a way of doing things we will never see again.

We no longer pursue even the faint pretenses of good intentions or integrity–the kind of gestures, though pathetic and empty, the world once expected from us because when the time finally came to come back from insanity, they were what the diplomats and politicians would use as starting points for the rebuilding of relationships and the rehabilitation of reputations Our actions betray our awareness that WE WILL NEVER be or aspire to be what we once dreamed we were or could be. I am convinced the dream is dead, jettisoned to make us lighter and faster and lesser and ever more less as we hurtle toward our black, unfamiliar future.

this is mystifying – surely, this rd character would lie low to be, well, rationally,……. never mind
it’s so monty python, with kafkaesque pastiche – think it’s a good time to say fare thee well to all and sundry bc i’m getting too tired to get any older

@Ken Hardy:
Let’s not forget the Nisoor Square fiasco in Iraq in 207, that had no one held accountable since the perps were “immunized” by their reporting. Yet another reason the ME folk don’t like us.

@Timbo: Obama does fondly refer to Davis as “Our Diplomat”

A bigger question might be which Colorado meeting Obama is going to let the CIA bomb to vent their frustration.

http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Islamabad/05-Oct-2011/Drone-strikes-increase-after-Mullens-statement

“An exclusive report by Associated Press revealed that some of the drone attacks were apparently in the nature of the CIA’s revenge acts against the ISI. The infamous drone attack of March 17, which killed 40 innocent tribesmen attending a tribal Jirga, it now transpires, was indeed a revenge act for the detention of CIA operative Raymond Davis for 7 weeks in custody in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis. The chilling words of a US official, quoted in the AP story: ‘It was in retaliation for Davis. The CIA was angry.'”