Posted on 04/03/2008 3:35:14 AM PDT by RedRover
>A judge did order Murtha’s deposition as part of the SSgt. Wuterich defamation case. The Bush DOJ is backing Murtha and has appeled the decision. So that’s where the matter rests. The family has limited resources to fight Murtha in dourt and he is using that to his advantage.
In separate motions before a military judge, defense attorneys have requested depositions of Murtha and Gen. Hagee. Those requests have been denied.<
Why am I not surprised? The government is now extremely well insulated from it’s constituency.
As I understand it, Lt Grayson was in a Marine counterintelligence unit (2nd CI HUMINT Co) and not under LtCol Chessani's direct command. I'm sure you know more about the relationship between attached specialized companies and regiments than I do.
I wouldn’t not be surprised that the Marine’s have a different system than does the Army. If an S-2 were assigned to a fighting unit from the intel battalion, in the Army they would still be rated and senior rated in the working battalion. The “intel group” assigning them would be in intermediate rater capacity.
In fact, that’s exactly how other special staff works in the Army.
freema had posted a link to a copy of the censures @92 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993980/posts?page=98#92
(which, interestingly, isn't opening for me any more), and I commented on it @98
Damages could be a little, could be a lot. It’s the jury’s call. Defamation per se, however, requires no proof of damages.
I didn’t mean the link to the thread didn’t work, the link to the of the actual censure letters that freema posted @92 isn’t working anymore - http://tiny.cc/OzXs1
The contents of those letters were secret until they were obtained by Defend Our Marines .
Yes, we do. But haven’t posted them because they have all kinds of warnings against doing so in scary, big, red, type.
I do have a question, though, if you feel free to answer it. Was Winters mention of 24 civilians only a reference to the Time magazine article, or was he making that claim regardless of what Time said. Freepmail me if need to.
Thanks Red. :)
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I think I’ll kick that one over to Nat. I’ll Freepmail you his e-mail and you can ask him. He’s usually very good at getting back to people.
They were both railroaded by the mainstream media and a bunch of liberal politicians.
Absolutely disgusting.
Great comparison. Spot on.
Yeah I know about “bank” juries, but even if such damages were awarded by a jury, there would be appeals that would invalidate them, right? The Pennzoil judgment against Texaco was eventually reduced from $11 billion to $3 billion-—still a heckuva lot, but down by two-thirds.
You could have just said, 'stay tuned'.
Well, that’s the last damn time I use that tiny url thingy.
Those with their hands in the USMC Cookie Jar underestimate the power of the statement below. President Bush did not invent this theology.
Marines did.
“Americans have never retreated in the face of thugs and assassins, and we will not begin now.”
President Bush, March 21, 2006, Cleveland, Ohio
If the assigned NCIS agents would have done a full professional job, none of this crap would have gotten any legs to begin with. Is Admiral Winters considering how the NCIS will be improved upon. Probably not. I never got any feedback from a email I directed to him way back when.
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