{"id":37479,"date":"2013-09-07T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37479"},"modified":"2013-09-07T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T21:59:11","slug":"marine-corps-backs-off-on-urination-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37479","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps backs off on urination case"},"content":{"rendered":"

AW1Ed and Andy sent us a Washington Times<\/a> link to an article about the Marine Corps backtracking on charges against Capt. James V. Clement for his part in the case related to Marines who urinated on Taliban corpses;<\/p>\n

Defense attorneys for Capt. James V. Clement had won a judge\u2019s order, over objections from Marine prosecutors, for two staff attorneys to testify in open court about how senior commanders had interfered in the case to get a guilty verdict.<\/p>\n

The lawyers also were seeking to question Gen. James Amos, the commandant, and wanted access to his private emails.<\/p>\n

But the criminal case ended Friday when Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck, who heads Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., and was overseeing the prosecution, filed a brief court paper withdrawing the charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You might remember that Clement’s defense hinged on General Amos’ command influence preceding the charges being brought and so they wanted to see Amos’ email traffic between him and his staff in regards to the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat email traffic would have revealed that [the commandant] and his lawyers had engaged in a secret, corrupt effort to rig and control the investigations and dispositions of the so-called desecration cases until Capt. Clement refused to submit to a corrupt process [of being] charged with crimes he did not commit,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, now we’ll never know, will we? Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck also ordered that Captain Clements undergo an administrative board of inquiry to determine if he is at all responsible for the incident. So it ain’t over yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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