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Raven 23: How the Department of Justice Betrayed American Heroes
Author(s): Gina Keating (Author)
- Publisher: Broadside Books
- Publication Date: August 12, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0063370603
- ISBN-13: 9780063370609
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“What happened to the men of Raven 23 and how the US government betrayed them is one of the most incredible political stories of our time. The truth is so outrageous and incredible, I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t investigated it myself. The damage cannot be undone, but shining a light on the deception can help set the record straight and clear the American conscience.” – Sharyl Attkisson
“Our freedom depends on men being willing to go and defend it in dangerous situations. What happens when we decide to stop defending those men? Raven 23 is an alarming account of how politicians turned a blind eye to the truth and instead pushed a convenient narrative, throwing American heroes under the bus. You cannot run efficient military or intelligence operations with political optics as your main goal.” – Ric Prado
“An alarming and hard-hitting exposé of bureaucratic malice, Raven 23 reveals how Washington, DC, betrayed men on the front lines. A reminder to always look beyond the headlines and seek out the facts. From the battlefield to the courtroom, Raven 23 is a saga full of drama, twists, and betrayal—a must-read!” – Shawn Ryan
About the Author
Gina Keating is a longtime investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker. Her most recent projects include the book Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs, the podcast series Business Wars: Netflix vs. Blockbuster vs. HBO and Raven 23: Presumption of Guilt, and the 2019 award-winning documentary Netflix vs the World. For three decades, Keating covered finance, politics, and law at the international wire services United Press International, Associated Press, and Thomson Reuters, and for newspapers in Los Angeles and Austin. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, DuJour, Texas Monthly, Southern Living, Variety, and Forbes, among many other major outlets.
