This news isn’t a surprise to those of us who have been following this case.  You remember these are the Marines that Rep. John Murtha (D,PA) called ‘cold blooded murderers’!  Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI) said there was ‘overwhelming’ evidence that the Marines committed this atrocity in Haditha.  All of this was said before an investigation was even completed. 

H/T via Riehlworld to Newsmax:

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 — 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 — the same video that after editing ended up in the hands of a gullible anti-war correspondent for Time magazine.

Wonder if Murtha or Levin will admit their smearing of brave and heroic Marines just doing their jobs? I doubt it since these political opportunists see nothing wrong in using and abusing a soldier all in the name of political gamesmenship. This is how the Dhimmicrats support the troops……by stabbing them in the back. After all, these warriors are only pawns in their political power games with the Bush Administration as their target.

Wonder if a Marine could file a defamation lawsuit against Murtha or Levin?

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