Don’t you just love it when a lowlife U.S. Representative (Not a Senator) has more power than the POTUS ?..Power to make or break a military investigation?..
Murtha should be put on the stand and grilled, bent, folded and stapled til his ears fall off !..Same fop DOD Winters and his assistant..
As for Marines being ‘compelled’ to testify?..No way, they still have the 5th Amendment to protect them, and probably some have faulty or hazy memories of what happened...
This trial is the legal equivalent of Nifong vs Duke LaCrosse Players...dirty, corrupt, influenced by powerful higher-ups, a mockery of over 250 years of military Rules of Engagement, an abuse of legal power, and a threat to every military person in uniform, and ultimately to every American citizen as more of our Freedoms is torn away...
The charges should be dismissed and DOD Winters should be compelled to write a letter of apology to each of the defendants. In addition, they should receive their combat medals rightfully earned, promoted and given retroactive pay raises since this trial has put all of their careers on hond- another great injustice...
Not long after he was appointed by President Bush after ZERO years in the navy, he exerted undue command influence in this case by censuring certain Marine brass for not thoroughly investigating this case. This was before a single article 32 had been completed
You can't swing a dead cat in the Pentagon without smacking some bureaucrat pushing for convictions.