In Iraq, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has moved to destroy vehicles that were supposed to be preserved as evidence in the case of five former Blackwater guards accused of massacring Iraqis at Nisoor Square. Politico reports an FBI agent stopped the destruction just weeks before the guards are set to go on trial next month for the 2007 shootings, which killed 17 Iraqis. Government prosecutors say several of the vehicles were damaged and one was “substantially crushed,” even though embassy personnel had been repeatedly “admonished” to retain them. It is the latest in a series of accusations about government mishandling, which caused the judge overseeing the case to remark last month: “If the Department of State and the Diplomatic Security Service had tried deliberately to sabotage this prosecution, they could hardly have done a better job.”