Posted on 09/05/2009 5:54:19 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
But the msm have only read the First Amendment, they don’t read the rest of the Constitution because it was thw work of dead, straight white guys, so many of whom were Believers.
I can't imagine CBS won't take this to the Supreme Court--which means a very long road ahead.
I wonder if there is any reason that Frank’s lawyer can’t proceed with a petition for dismissal based on UCI? Why wait for all this other nonsense to get resolved?
Hopefully, a dismissal based on UCI won’t lead to a Board of Inquiry for SSgt Wuterich. That is what Bob Weimann is predicting as the outcome. Don’t know if a Board would want to see the outtakes or not.
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I could certainly be wrong about this, but I thought "Boards of Inquiry" were for officers only?
Interesting indeed, Girl. It seems it may not only cut down on the imagined recollections of agents but the way the interview or interrogation is conducted to begin with.
Though you’re probably right about them being conducted other than in an NCIS facility, some agents taped the rooms where the killings occurred so there wouldn’t be much of an excuse for interrogators not to have a video camera.
Thanks for the info, Girl.
No court has ever ruled that the press has immunity from involvement in criminal cases based on first amendment rights. The courts have held that the first amendment prevents prior restraint of the press from printing what they believe is the truth. The media pretends that it’s settled law that the first amendment allows reporters to protect sources, but they sometimes go to jail for doing so.
In this instance, I have to respect the press for standing firm, as it keeps law enforcement from routinely subpoenaing press records in criminal cases.
One of the problems with the internet is that people do their own self-censoring of source materials so no one has any idea what's cut and tossed in the trash. But, we have more sources.
Frankly, we're in such uncharted waters that I don't think anyone can know what's likely to happen next.
Frankly, we're in such uncharted waters that I don't think anyone can know what's likely to happen next.
I feel encouraged by Bob Weimann's thoughts in the article you posted in your thread, The LtCol Chessani Case: Good News and Bad News... Mostly Bad:
The good news, in my opinion, is that by referring this case to a Board of Inquiry, General Flynn, has passed the responsibility to three of LtCol Chessani’s peers. The test of courage is now theirs. The board composition requires three officers senior to the LtCol Chessani and that probably means a one star general and two colonels (three colonels if he is lucky). I say peers because if Haditha didn’t happen, LtCol Chessani, in all probability, would now be a Colonel.
The Marine Corps is a relatively small organization and an officer’s professional reputation is always known. Chessani's professional reputation will count unofficially with these officers. Hopefully, these officers will be former battalion commanders, with Iraq combat experience, during the years between the 2003 invasion and the “Surge” in 2007. This time period is important because the generals failed to develop an effective strategy in Iraq leaving battalion commanders to figure it out themselves. Bing West in The Strongest Tribe and LtCol Nathan Sassaman in Warrior King both point out the lack of strategic guidance in their books. Hopefully, the Chessani Board of Inquiry will recognize that combat reporting is never perfect and always subject to the friction and fog of war.
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