[antimedia] antimedia: If you're at all concerned about justice....

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If you're at all concerned about justice....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1177729062.shtml


   ....you should be reading [1]this update on the Haditha story. It's
   far too long to quote here, and there's extremely important
   information in this account.
   The prosecution's case keeps getting weaker and weaker. They have now
   offered immunity to over half the people involved. Furthermore, the
   prosecution withheld crucial evidence instead of giving it to the
   defense.

     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.
     This officer, described by senior Marine Corps superiors as one of
     the best and most dedicated intelligence officers in the entire
     Marine Corps, was in possession of evidence which provided a
     minute-by-minute narrative of the entire day's action â material
     which he had amassed while monitoring the day's action in his
     capacity as the battalion's intelligence officer. That material, he
     says, was also in the hands of the NCIS.
     Much of that evidence remains classified, but it includes videos of
     the entire day's action, including airstrikes against insurgent
     safe houses. Also included was all of the radio traffic describing
     the ongoing action between the men on the ground and battalion
     headquarters, and proof that the Marines were aware that the
     insurgents conducting the ambush of the Kilo Company troops were
     videotaping the action â the same video that after editing ended up
     in the hands of a gullible anti-war correspondent for Time
     magazine. (see Sweetness And Light links for the sordid details of
     the provenance of the TIME video and the numerous, conflicting
     stories provided by TIME on how it came to be)

   As I [2]concluded early on the Marines are innocent. It remains to be
   seen whether the government will finally admit that. (Hat tip to
   [3]Bruce Kesler.)
   Tags: [4]Haditha [5]Iraq [6]Marines [7]current-events

References

   1. http://www.redstate.com/stories/war/an_interview_with_the_haditha_defense_team
   2. http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1172640380.shtml
   3. http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003275.html
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/Haditha
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/Iraq
   6. http://technorati.com/tag/Marines
   7. http://technorati.com/tag/current-events