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April 26, 2007
Haditha Bombshell - Intel Evidence
New evidence continues to surface in the Haditha case that shows the Marines didn't do it. Convincing evidence that corroborates NewsMax.com's accounts of the Haditha insurgent ambush has compelled the prosecution to take extraordinary steps to bolster their crumbling case.There is more evidence of weakness in the case. The announcement of the deal with Dela Cruz is further evidence that the cases against the Kilo Company Marines and several of their superior officers are in deep trouble. It comes on the heels of postponements of Article 32 hearings slated for Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the battalion commander and two of the enlisted men charged with murdering civilians in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005.Now here is the bombshell: In a nutshell, the case exploded when an intelligence officer dropped a bombshell on prosecutors during a pre-hearing interview when he revealed the existence of exculpatory evidence that appears to have been obtained by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and withheld from the prosecutors.It is looking more and more like there was no case to begin with. Just some allegations and a movie by our enemies. With Time Magazine taking the side of our enemies. It is looking more and more like the Haditha Massacre will be put in the same category as the Duke Rape Hoax. Prosecutorial overstretch. Robert Muise, the Thomas More Law Center attorney who questioned the officer, told NewsMax in a statement, "The intelligence officer is a crucial witness in this case. During his testimony, he effectively described the enemy situation prior to, during, and after the November 19 terrorist attack, providing the necessary context for the decisions that were made as a result. His testimony shows the complexity of the attack this day, the callousness of the terrorists toward the local civilians, whom they use to their advantage, and the error of viewing this incident in a vacuum.So this case is what many had suspected all along. A propaganda effort by our enemy to smear American soldiers. And of course our media lapped it up uncritically. Who's side are they on anyway? And what about old Stinking Jack Murtha who pressed the Marine Corps to investigate by saying that some of the Marines involved that day were cold blooded killers. Murtha, who used to be a Marine, is a disgrace to the Corps. NCIS Misconduct Alleged in Haditha Probe Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 04.26.07 at 01:55 PM
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Daryl, Thanks! It was intentional. M. Simon · April 26, 2007 09:01 PM Weird stuff. Between this, and the Duke Rape Case, I'm finding it a little disturbing exactly how easy it is for some of these prosecutors to hide disagreeing evidence. gattsuru · April 26, 2007 10:16 PM IN regards to the terrorists' use of propaganda, it amazes and saddens me that far too many Americans are willing to believe that the US government is lying to to, but that everything the media prints about US troops committing atrocities in Iraq is true. The western media, most of whom are claiming inability to get out of the Green Zone as their excuse often relies on reports from local Iraqi stringers to get accounts of events outside the Green Zone. Not all of these stringers are as well versed in objective reporting, nor free from ties to terrorist forces. The sad result of this is that false accounts are reported as fact, and with limited accountability, and an inability to follow-up in proving or disproving a report, western reporters are getting a pass on the ethical issue of reporting using unconfirmed evidence, if not outright falsehood. I have seen a few reporters during my tours in Iraq, but I am sure far more of the reporters are writing in Baghdad after talking to some source whose veractiy and identity are unconfirmed. IN regards to your earlier post, Soldiers might write more to refute news reports if not for a few reasons: 2) Safeguarding of information, aka "The need to know". Some of us joke that we can't wait for 25 years to pass so we can tell people what we did. 25 years is sort of a default setting for classified material to be declassified. Some things might be revealed sooner, some later. IN any case, it is not necessarily the Soldiers' place to publish things that might be classified. It's not just a guideline for operational security, it is also legally actionable, so most Soldiers are circumspect in what they publish. 3) "Watching your lane/talking above your paygrade". IF I have had a good day on patrol, I would probably tell a reporter that things were going well in Iraq; if I had just returned from a patrol in which we had taken casualties, I'd probably say the situation was bad and getting worse. I don't have the whole picture, and I definitely do not speak for the entire Department of Defense, I try to only speak from what I know, and it would be great if reporters would keep that in mind when they use the comments of 2 or three low ranking troops out of the 160,000 in Iraq as evidence that morale is low and the war is lost. SFC SKI · April 28, 2007 06:45 AM Post a comment
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Murtha, who used to be a Marine
I think most Marines would agree with how you phrased that.