{"id":1816,"date":"2008-06-05T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:36:12","slug":"another-hadith-marine-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"Another Haditha Marine Acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s no surprise, really. one after another, the Marines have been found innocent or the charges dropped. But here’s the latest story emailed to me by Rurik<\/a>;<\/p>\n

U.S. military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis.<\/p>\n

Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let’s recap the events over the last few years. In May, 2006 Congressman John Murtha says in an interview<\/a>;<\/p>\n

…that sources within the military have told him that an internal investigation will show that “there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light<\/a> discovers that Murtha was actually briefed AFTER he gave the interview.<\/p>\n

Asked about this in the interview, Murtha said the information came from Gen. Michael Hagee, the commandant of the Marine Corps, in a one-on-one conversation the day before Hagee made a trip to Iraq. Hagee did not use the term “in cold blood,” he added.<\/p>\n

Col. Dave Lapan, a Marine spokesman, disputed Murtha\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

He said the commandant did brief Murtha about the Haditha incident. But he said that was on May 24, a week after Murtha made his public comment. The next day, May 25, Hagee left for Iraq, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Murtha made the statement hoping for the results to follow his script – which is why many of the prosecuting lawyers in the case have reported unprecedented pressure to get convictions. Not just targeting the Marines on the scene, Murtha hoped to lasso<\/a> in a whole bunch of uniformed people so he could blame it on the administration;<\/p>\n

“Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, fatboy, you didn’t even know if there was any crime at all, did you? Hence the pressure you applied to prosecutors. Now when I call Murtha’s office for a response, they just hang up immediately. I wonder why.<\/p>\n

Heh. Found this while I was researching the links here. You all know this guy confronting Murtha, you just don’t know that you know him. He comments here from time-to-time.<\/p>\n

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