The senior Pentagon official said that no other marines would face charges in the case. “The only people who will be charged with an offense will be those individuals who did the shootings,” the official said last week.
But the Marine officer, interviewed on Tuesday, said that he expected charges to be brought against one or two additional marines, including one officer.
“I don’t see just five of them being charged,” the official said. “I see six or seven. One of them, I see, is an officer.”
Elsewhere in the article…
Aides to committee members said that Marine officials promised a confidential briefing before any charges were announced.
That was the “confidential briefing” that Congressmen babbled all about to reporters.
Then there was the list of names...
According to the Marine official and the defense lawyer representing one of the marines under investigation, criminal charges will be filed against Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, 26, of Meriden, Conn., the squad’s leader; Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum, 25, of Edmund, Okla.; Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, 21, of Carbondale, Penn.; Cpl. Sanick Dela Cruz, 24, of Chicago; and Cpl. Hector Salinas, 22, of Houston.
The Times issued a correction for LCpl. Sharratt’s hometown (for the benefit of all the loonies in the world) but no explanation or correction or apology for including Cpl. Salinas on the list.
“That was the “confidential briefing” that Congressmen babbled all about to reporters.”
So this was a “confidential” briefing by Lt. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, the Marine Corps deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations, to the HOUSE ARMED SERVICE Committee.
Refresh my memory, did some of these Congressmen babble to reporters? Seems like everyone is trying to leak info to implicate these Marines before their first hearing. Who hasn’t leaked may be a shorter list.
ALL those who agitated to have these charges brought forward and ALL those who have betrayed their oaths and provided these leaks and ALL those who find delight in this issue are working on behalf of the best interests of our enemy and should be put against a wall and shot as traitors.
Semper Fi! Both ways! Always faithful in support of our own and always faithful in pursuit of the destruction of our enemy!