{"id":1899,"date":"2008-06-17T13:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2008-06-17T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:17:33","slug":"ltc-chessani-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"LTC Chessani cleared!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My email box is filling up, Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s talking about it, it&#8217;s all over the news, so I guess I&#8217;d better tell ya&#8217;all (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/06\/17\/iraq\/main4185854.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A military judge has dismissed charges against a Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Steven Folsom dismissed charges Tuesday against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani after defense attorneys raised concerns that a four-star general overseeing the prosecution was improperly influenced by an investigator probing the November 2005 shootings by a Marine squad in Haditha.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were dismissed without prejudice, meaning they can be refiled, but Folsom excluded Marine Forces Central Command from future involvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were 9 Marines charged and we&#8217;re down to one Staff Sergeant. I wonder if Murtha is writing his resignation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED:<\/strong> My post at <a href=\"http:\/\/talon.eaglesup.us\/?p=92\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles UP! Talon<\/a> deals with this subject and Murtha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My email box is filling up, Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s talking about it, it&#8217;s all over the news, &hellip; <a title=\"LTC Chessani cleared!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1899\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LTC Chessani cleared!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}