DOJ builds new criminal case against Blackwater guards

07/26/12: The Blog of Legal Times reports Prosecutors in Washington are building a new criminal case against a group of former Blackwater private security guards whom the government believes wrongly killed more than dozen Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad shootout in 2007.  A federal judge in December 2009 dismissed the a high-profile manslaughter case, saying that the prosecution was unlawfully built on protected statements that the guards made after the shooting.  But the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit last year revived the prosecution, and the Supreme Court in June declined to review the case.  Assistant US attorney Anthony Asuncion said Wednesday at a status hearing that the government is moving forward to obtain a superseding indictment.