Government Looks to Change Manslaughter Charges to Murder in Fallujah Marine Case

What do you do when you can’t get Marines to testify against each other, can’t get them to take a deal, and generally have no case? Why, up the ante, of course.

A federal grand jury is considering amending charges against a former Riverside police officer from manslaughter to murder for killings while he was a sergeant in Iraq, a defense attorney said.

Jose Luis Nazario Jr. is charged with voluntary manslaughter in U.S. District Court in Riverside — because he is no longer in the military. But prosecutors are now asking a grand jury in Riverside to change the charges to murder, said Kevin McDermott, one of the attorneys representing Nazario.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Behnke said he could not comment on whether the grand jury is reviewing the case or why the prosecution would ask for charges to be amended. Grand jury proceedings are closed to defense attorneys and the public.

Of course he’s not going to comment on why they would be amending the charges to read murder instead of manslaughter. What would he say? I can see the press conference now.

“Well, folks, this whole process isn’t going the same as the others. There’s an order to this whole thing. See, first we charge them all, even though we have no evidence. Then we confine them in ungodly conditions…what’s that? Oh god, no. Not like detainees. Those guys at Gitmo are living fat and happy. We’re trying to break these Marines, not coddle them. Stop asking stupid questions.

“Anyway, usually after about 18 hours of interrogations with no food, water, or bathroom breaks, a few months of shackles and solitary confinement, they’ll sign anything we ask. Yes, we’ve done it before, we know it works. But these Marines, they’re being a bit uncooperative. Nelson refused to testify even though we put him in jail over Memorial Day weekend, we had to pull him out of jail because the milblogs made a bunch of ruckus about the whole thing. Nazario’s refusing to plead guilty…it’s just ridiculous. Don’t these guys know they’re supposed to play along? Well, we’re just going to remind Nazario of what’s at stake here. He’s got a family. We’ve got Mattis on board, he’ll testify against the Marines. But anyway, the short answer to your question of why we decided to bump it up is obvious–we have to bring in the big guns. We have nothing unless we can either get them to plead guilty, or get someone to roll.”

Lt Gen Samuel Helland: One Small Step, But Not Even Close to Right Yet

Interesting developments in the Camp Lejeune case today.

RALEIGH , N.C. - Two Marine officers in a unit that was accused of killing as many as 19 Afghan civilians in 2007 will not face criminal charges, the military said Friday.

Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland, the commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Central Command, made the decision not to bring charges after reviewing the findings of a special tribunal that heard more than three weeks of testimony in January at Camp Lejuene.

The tribunal investigated allegations that as many as 19 Afghan civilians died when a unit of Lejeune-based Marine special operations troops opened fire after a car bomb targeted their convoy on March 4, 2007 in Nangahar Province.

This decision is very significant for several reasons.  First, it’s a small victory for those of us advocating on behalf of Marines and soldiers accused of “war crimes” while doing their job–which is primarily, by the way, killing the enemy last time I checked.

What makes the decision interesting is that General Helland just happens to be the same officer who served as the convening authority in the SGT Lawrence Hutchins case.  Hutchins is better known as the squad leader of the Pendleton 8, a group of Marines who, together with their Navy Corpsman, were accused of murder after taking out a terrorist in April 2006.  All but Hutchins finally broke after 18-hour interrogations and months of confinement in solitary, shackled conditions that Gen. James Mattis called too severe.

The men took plea deals, pointed the finger at Hutchins, and now all seven of them are free–or at least, not imprisoned.  Hutchins remains in the brig at Camp Pendleton, recently sentenced to 11 years by General Helland, even though the government still to this day cannot prove that the Marines killed anyone besides the terrorist they were sent to find–and kill.  Their entire case rested on their ability to threaten seven men long enough and hard enough to get them to sign statements admitting something they did not do.  Everyone has a breaking point, and the NCIS made sure they found every single one.  The results are honorable Marines now facing life as federal felons and one in jail for the next six years–in return for doing their job.

Why the shortsightedness in the Hutchins case, and the contrasting willingness to do the right thing in the Lejeune case?  The evidence showing Hutchins to be innocent is overwhelming, public, and freely available.  The undue command influence recently found by a military judge in the Haditha case has been touted as a huge victory for not only LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, but also for Hutchins, who stands to benefit from the door finally being opened to show the same in his own case.

Whether Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland can and will do the right thing twice in a row remains to be seen.  Judging from his track record thus far, I’m not expecting much. These days in Marine Corps leadership, honor seems to be in short supply.

Also posted at TheNextRight.com.

Letter to General Helland re: Sgt Lawrence Hutchins

The following letter was sent to Lt. Gen. Helland and others last night regarding the continued imprisonment and wrongful conviction of SGT Lawrence Hutchins.

I am currently writing a definitive account of the Hutchins case from beginning to end. I am incorporating all the documents I have in my possession, including the Ronin diaries, autopsy report, record of trial, NCIS work product, combat logs, interviews, and much more.

After two years of research in this case, as all of you are already aware, I can and will prove well beyond a reasonable doubt all of the following:

- There was a casual familiarity between the prosecution and the convening authority that crosses the line well into undue command influence. This was not an exception, but the modus operandi, as evidenced by recent rulings in United States v. Chessani and other examples in related cases such as United States v. Girouard.

- This familiarity between the convening authority and the prosecution extended to the defense attorneys, as they “played along” with the government’s script, ultimately failing in their duty to represent their clients, and denying them a fair trial.

- The six remaining Marines and Navy Corpsman lied on the stand. Each of them had a personal reason, something that the NCIS used to bargain with, and I will expose these reasons, including NCIS’ maximizing of them to force the Marines to falsely incriminate themselves.

- These lies purchased sentences that accomplished a two-fold purpose. First, they allowed the government to “punish” someone, thereby saving face with both the media and the Iraqi government in one fell swoop–without ever having to actually prove their case in a fair court of law and without ever having to actually convict the men involved. Secondly, the sentences offered the men a way to get on with their lives. The prospect of perjuring oneself is obviously less frightening when sanctioned by the government and done in return for the whole sordid mess just going away. As evidenced by the online postings of Jodka, Magincalda, Bacos, and Pennington, they have already forgotten that their lies betrayed the man who led them into battle and would have laid down his own life to ensure they made it home from Iraq. They all “just want to move on.” Of course, [some of their] willingness to be paid for their stories does not speak well for their veracity either. One does not pay for the truth to be told, and one does not accept payment for telling it.

- From the first day the Marines and Corpsman were confined, everything about their confinement was designed to emotionally, psychologically, and physically (by denying medical attention to Cpl Magincalda) break them–before they had even been charged with a crime. Gen. Mattis himself has admitted that the Marines and Corpsman were held in overly strict conditions.

- The NCIS conducted their investigation with a blatant lack of integrity, fairness or even concern for the truth. Their methods were not only suspect, but outright corrupt. This is perhaps one of the most easily proven points of the entire case.

From the beginning, this case was flawed at its core. From the lack of witness verification to cruel and unusual punishment, from openly suborning perjury to the manufacturing of “evidence,” the government has acted with complete and utter disregard for facts. Aided by a “defense” corps that submarined its own clients, the Marine Corps took a sergeant of Marines with an unimpeachable record of service and destroyed his career and that of his men–not to mention bankrupting families and tearing relationships and marriages apart. Proving this is not an issue. The documents speak for themselves.

Once the story is written, I have almost 50 websites with a combined total readership well into the tens of millions ready to run it. It will be on internet talk radio shows with global listenership. I guarantee you that this story will be the #1 result on every search engine on the internet for Sgt Lawrence Hutchins. I will also make sure that it is the #1 result for every single officer involved in this case, from every attorney to every judge who has ever touched this case. There will be no libel, no slander–only truth, facts, and the documents that back them all up.

The government has shown an inherent unwillingness to do the right thing, and therefore I feel it my duty to expose every lie, every inconsistency, every hole in the story…Regardless of personal cost to me, Sgt Hutchins WILL be exonerated–if not by his government, then by his countrymen in the court of public opinion. When they see the extent of the injury to Hutchins’ name, they WILL seek justice.

I do not think I need to remind you that The Long War is unpopular at best. As we have discussed at length, if the average American were made aware of the extent the government will go to in order to appease the media, the anti-American Left, and a foreign power, it could be an interesting election year…

Kit Lange

Thanks to John Bambenek, Deb Lange, and Deb at Yankeemom, all of whom have recently come on board to help wade through the hundreds of pages of case material, catalog it, and cross-reference so that this story may be finally written once and for all. We will win this fight, and it will not end until Larry Hutchins walks out a free man.

LA Times Says “Awad” Was “Suspected” of Insurgent Ties

The LA Times blog at least has .000001% of a clue, which is more than I can say for the Patriot Ledger, North County Times and the AP.

Lawrence Hutchins, convicted as the ringleader in the execution of an Iraqi suspected of insurgent ties, is set soon to be transferred from the Camp Pendleton brig to the military prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.

Points for not calling the terrorist a “victim” or characterizing him as the next Nobel Prize candidate. Of course, these points are deducted for their refusal to consider the evidence they’ve been provided with.

Patriot Ledger Ignores Evidence, Says Sgt Hutchins Should Stay in Prison

I read the following screed about Sgt Lawrence Hutchins this afternoon and was so disgusted I had to sit down and write a counterpoint to it. This could get long, so grab a cup of coffee and have a seat. We’re going to go through this line by line, so the holier-than-thou folks at the Patriot Ledger who wrote this trash can figure out just how stupid this article is. I’d name the article’s author, but he was too much of a coward to put his name on it. This editorial is actually the only one currently on the Enterprise News Opinion page without a name on it. Interesting, isn’t it? But let’s get started.

Compassion is an essential element of justice, but U.S. Rep. William Delahunt’s plea to free a Plymouth Marine convicted of murdering an Iraqi civilian is beyond mercy and sends a horrible message about what we will allow our military members to do in the name of combat.

With this opening statement, the author throws any fairness, truth, or even interest in justice out the window. Actually, what sends a horrible message is training Marines to do a job, then prosecuting them for doing it. The reason Delahunt is making a plea for Hutchins’ release is because he has seen the evidence. Delahunt’s lawyer sat in the courts-martial. They’re quite aware of the situation. Now, believe me when I say Delahunt is a schmuck. He’s not supporting Hutchins out of the goodness of his heart. He’s doing it because those of us who fight for Larry made sure Larry’s congressman knew about the evidence. You can’t claim plausible deniability when you own a copy of the documents that prove a Marine innocent. Delahunt is between a rock and a hard place. If he comes out and asks for Larry to be released, then he has improperly-named rags like the “Patriot Ledger” verbally slapping his limp wrists. If he sits there and prays it all goes away, then people like my friend Tim Harrington will be camped out in front of every news and radio station in New England talking about how Delahunt knows the government railroaded Sgt Hutchins and did nothing. Not everyone in New England is a wacked-out Kennedy liberal, so think about that a moment. Delahunt is simply playing the political game for his own gain–and the Patriot Ledger is even worse.

Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III just had four years of his 15-year prison term reduced after a plea of clemency to his commanding general. The sentence and the resulting reduction were sufficiently compassionate for the crimes for which Hutchins was convicted. Any further reduction would be a perversion of our military justice system.

Let me explain what “a perversion of our military justice system” really is. Eighteen-hour interrogations with no bathroom breaks. Not recording any of it, and making the Marines sign statements that were not written by them, but constructed by NCIS agents from their memory of the interrogation. How about telling the Marines that asking for a lawyer would “be the worst mistake they ever make?” How about denying them medical attention for their combat injuries while they’re in shackles for months before the government even charged them with a crime? Let’s not forget the part where the government just happened to “accidentally” stop paying these men before they were ever convicted or even tried, and the part where Sgt Larry Hutchins was in solitary confinement for ten months, even though he had always been a perfect Marine and a stellar example.

Hutchins, 24, and other members of his eight-man squad were convicted or pled guilty to abducting and killing Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, in the Anbar Province town of Hamdania. But according to testimony by members of his unit, Hutchins hatched the plot to kill Awad and then cover up the crime to make it look like the victim was preparing to bury a roadside bomb.

In the most damning piece of testimony, Navy Hospitalman Melson Bacos, testified that Hutchins shot Awad in the head to prevent the body from being identified. Bacos testified Hutchins declared: “Congratulations gents, we’ve just gotten away with murder.” [emphasis added]

Here we have Example #4,478,897 of someone talking about things he knows nothing about. First of all, Hutchins performed a dead check, and this is done by shooting the person in the head and face. [How many times do I need to go over this?] The idea of him shooting the insurgent in the face to “prevent the body from being identified” is so stupid it defies logic. The Ledger ignores the fact that not even the Iraqis who claimed to be this man’s family could identify him before the shooting, let alone after. The government has no idea if it even exhumed the right body–not because Hutchins shot him in the face too many times, but because it relied on a corrupt NCIS agent. Until Agent James Connolly pulled Awad’s name out of a hat, those eight men had no idea they had killed anyone but Gowad (the original target)–and there’s still no way to know if they didn’t.

Consider the number of cases where NCIS has actually been caught fabricating evidence, adding sentences and words to statements that change their meaning, and other such disgusting tactics. In one case a few years ago (the Daniel Scott King case), NCIS agents literally interrogated a Navy enlisted man to the point where he was hallucinating from lack of sleep and writing down his hallucinations and dreams as confessions. NCIS took it all and tried to see him prosecuted for it. They grilled him for almost 20 hours a day, every day, for almost an entire month. Agents even tried to take his young daughter from her elementary school for interrogation after King’s wife would not give NCIS access to the girl. [Side note: It's important to mention that they do these things routinely and with impunity. A military judge in the King case ruled that the NCIS was "immune" from prosecution--no matter what.]

We have a Uniform Code of Military Justice and our soldiers, sailors and Marines are tried under that system because they are held by peers and superiors who understand the pressures and situations troops in combat encounter. Civilians cannot begin to grasp that context.

Soldiers, sailors, and Marines are being tried under a system that is broken, by peers and superiors looking for their next stripe or star. They may understand the pressures of combat, but they have lost their integrity and personal honor. They do not operate from a standpoint of loyalty and truth, but from one of cowardice, self-service, and political expediency. For the Patriot ledger to paint the military justice system as anything but a broken sham of a system is irresponsible and misleading.

In World War II, few cases of crimes or atrocities were found because at that time, we were considered to be defending ourselves. There was a righteousness to our cause and our soldiers’ actions reflected that.

In Korea and Vietnam, the enemy forces often used women and children to ambush American troops so soldiers had to make split decisions as to what course of action to take when confronted by civilians.

Some of the same scenarios exist in Iraq, perhaps even more so as we engage in an urban war where the enemy is not easily or readily identifiable.

But because we entered their country as liberators, our troops must be held to a higher standard. In Hutchins’ case, they dragged an innocent man from his home and then killed him in cold blood. No one disputes that. But a military jury, all fellow Marines who served in Iraq, convicted Hutchins of unpremeditated murder, larceny and making a false official statement.

The Iraq War veterans who heard the case determined Hutchins actions were neither bad decisions in the course of combat nor acceptable military conduct. They were crimes. [emphasis added]

I don’t even know where to begin with this drivel. “In Hutchins’ case, they dragged an innocent man from his home and then killed him in cold blood. No one disputes that.” We don’t? Actually, this statement is the most dangerous of the whole article, for it takes an untruth and raises it to “of course it’s true” status. The man was not innocent, and he was not killed in cold blood. The evidence shows that, and the Patriot Ledger knows better.

We empathize with Hutchins and other young soldiers and Marines placed in an untenable situation with ever-changing rules of engagement. But if we are to hold our cause of freedom and justice as a beacon for those on whose behalf we intervene, we cannot lower the standard for ourselves.

The standard has already been lowered, and not in the way the Ledger thinks. We took men willing to lay down their very lives for our nation and put them in shackles without a conviction or even charges being filed. We denied them legal counsel, due process, and nearly every other right afforded to them under the Constitution. We ignored evidence that exonerated them, and fabricated evidence that vilified them. We wrote about them like they were zoo exhibits, every detail of their lives picked over and pried into as people looked for the “reason” why such good-looking, all-American boys would “kill in cold blood.” No one could find a reason–because no cold-blooded killing ever happened. Unless, of course, you think that the killing of the enemy in war is cold-blooded.

If Delahunt is successful in freeing Hutchins, the convicted Marine will indeed have gotten away with murder.

No. If Delahunt is successful in freeing Hutchins, that Marine will have lost the last two years of his life, had his name dragged through the mud by thousands of “news” outlets across the country, missed two years of his little girl’s growing up, and lost a career that he lived for because he believed in its justice and rightness, and that’s all just for starters. But at least he’ll be able to walk outside and smell the fresh air. He’ll get to wake up in the morning and choose the clothes he’d like to wear.

No one “got away with murder.” And the Patriot Ledger will not get away with their libel. You see, the Patriot Ledger has had the same information that Delahunt does. They already have everything they need to tell the truth. They are knowingly ignoring that truth and printing the same dangerous lies as everyone else. Their articles consistently paint Hutchins as a cold-blooded murderer, when all along they’ve had the information proving him innocent.

Where’s the real crime?

Media Gets It Wrong Again: SGT Lawrence Hutchins Did Not Kill An Iraqi

By now it’s fairly well-known news that the final sentence for Marine SGT Lawrence Hutchins III is in. He received 11 years–four less than the original sentence of 15. Over the last 24 hours, I’ve watched the same tired AP story from Thomas Watkins get regurgitated all over the internet by “news” organizations too lazy to do the objective research required of their profession. “Marine who killed Iraqi gets sentence cut, rank reduction” reads one misleading headline. One bloviating idiot (who happens to be chief editor of the Atlantic Free Press) had the nerve to call his article “Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat: America’s New Moral Universe.” Chris Floyd complains at the idea that Hutchins’ sentence be reduced at all, and makes it blindingly obvious that he has no idea what the facts of the case even are.

“When even the scapegoats escape justice,” pontificates Floyd, “what possible hope can there be that the perpetrators and abettors of the Nazi-like war crime in Iraq will ever pay the price — or even suffer the slightest trouble — for their monstrous outrage?”

Allow me to use this article to educate both Mr. Floyd and Mr. Watkins–the first of whom is just clueless. Mr. Watkins, however, is something far worse: informed and uncaring.

You see, Mr. Watkins has had many, many documents made available to him. He has been given enough information about this case to make it perfectly clear that the government’s case is fraudulent. He of all people knows full well that Sgt Hutchins was never purported to be the shooter in this case that killed the unidentified man the government “believes” is Mohammed Awad. Hutchins performed a dead check. The Marines who actually shot the insurgent (and yes, he was an insurgent, Mr. Watkins, do your research–I know you have the documents) were Shumate, Thomas, Magincalda, and Jodka. Not Sgt Lawrence Hutchins, who was on the roof until after the shooting occurred.

Watkins, like many of the other reporters consistently writing on this case (and who will be named soon in another story exposing their willful incompetence and dangerous disregard for ethics and truth), ignored the evidence that the government prosecuted Marines for the sake of political expediency. He ignored the hard-copy proof that the commanders of Hutchins’ unit demanded, taught, and engaged in tactics that they now claim never happened. He dismisses what even Slate knows: that military leadership is literally training men to do a job and then prosecuting and jailing them for doing it exactly as they were trained.

Do I sound frustrated? It’s because I am. It’s bad enough to see an innocent Marine shackled, imprisoned, and denied all rights of due process, who sat in the brig at Camp Pendleton for two years before his case was finally trumped up enough to ram past a judge and convening authority looking the other way. It is anathema to see the media and their leftist lapdogs spew their twisted opinions all over the internet disguised as “news.” This isn’t news. It’s typical anti-war bias, evidenced by Floyd’s coy and repeated mention of the boring old Nazi comparison yet again. And yet again, I will say the boring old answer that it’s not the same thing.

Maybe Watkins and Floyd should go cover celebrities. At least the fruits in Hollywood have a chance of being guilty of something.

Hutchins’ Sentence Reduced to 11 Years

I first learned about this a few days ago but had to wait for the official news reports to come out. Sgt Lawrence Hutchins, the squad leader of the Pendleton 8 and one of my personal heroes, had his sentence reduced from 15 years to 11 this week. Before you start cheering, let’s all remember that he was wrongfully convicted by a corrupt system, a faked investigation, fraudulent and misleading practices, and a governmental coverup that smells worse than my dog after a rainstorm. (Don’t believe me? Take the time to read about the case. It’s all here at ER, and has been for two years.)

I am also being told that Hutchins is being moved from Camp Pendleton to Fort Leavenworth, KS, to spend the remainder of his sentence. This is interesting because SSG Ray Girouard, of the Iron Triangle Case, is also there, spending his sentence. You may remember SSG Girouard as the highly decorated Army Ranger who was also wrongfully convicted of murder during combat operations. I have been highly involved in his case as well, and it is my hope that Larry and Ray can find some common ground that will help keep both of their spirits up in the times to come.

In the meantime, we on the front lines of their case continue to fight, continue to bring more evidence to light in their cases, showing that these men were–and shall forever remain–innocent of all charges. Our position is not popular, it is not socially acceptable, but it is right, and I will go as long as it takes to free them.

Please consider writing to Larry and Ray. They are two of the most amazing men you could ever hope to meet, and to this day they are honorable men of character who still love their nation–even though her government betrayed them.

Pendleton 8 Background: Judge Was Openly Biased

In the Lt. Phan case, defense attorneys submitted this memo to the presiding judge, who had engaged in unethical and improper conduct throughout the proceedings.

From: David Sheldon

To: Investigating Officer

Subj: Article 32 hearing ICO United States v. Phan

Date: 28 January 2007

Sir,

1. On behalf of my client, I wanted to state for the record the following:

(a) The defense believes a classification review should be undertaken without delay. We ask you to make this recommendation;

(b) Your recommendation that an investigation into the testimony and conduct of both certain NCIS agents and the three Marines at issue should be initiated and is appropriate. These matters are important as you well recognized;

(c) Your recommendation regarding counsel should include the trial team as well. It became abundantly clear that Major Plowman and Captain Gannon became witnesses when as Major Plowman said “I believe this witness (LCPL Kraus) is lying regarding whether or not he met with me in August of last year.” I should note that Lance Corporal Kraus testified that he did not remember meeting with Major Plowman. Additionally, I have concerns about the testimony of two junior, enlisted Marines who testified that two members of the prosecution team, a Captain and a Staff Sergeant Logan, may have sought to improperly threaten them and/or improperly influence their testimony. The defense team has acted in a manner consistent with their ethical obligations. Your comments that these Marines’ affidavits were “colored by a third party” are without any basis in fact. As you well know, all three Marines testified under oath repeatedly that their affidavits were voluntary and accurate;

(d) Finally, I am deeply concerned about your repeated statements regarding the credibility of witnesses and the validity of the charges on and off the record prior to hearing all of the evidence or commencing your deliberation. Your comments that you will use your personal experiences and beliefs with respect to operations in Iraq as a bellwether for what is and isn’t legal and what is or isn’t credible in the present case, and your representation that you intend to use your personal past experiences and relationships with NCIS and its agents, are equally disturbing. In my 16 years of practice, I have never seen an investigating officer or military judge make such patently biased and inappropriate comments. Nor have I ever seen an investigating officer or military judge ever prevent a counsel from making a record as you did just prior to the close of the hearing. Your actions clearly violated L T Phan’ s right to a fair and impartial hearing and were an attempt by you to play to the media in order to put the Marine Corps and NCIS in the best possible light. Moreover, your obstreperous, condescending (to include your loud exaggerated sighs and eye rolling) behavior and repeated derogatory comments to Lt. Col. Cord during his closing comments were offensive and without precedence. In sum, you paid lip service to L T Phan’s right to a full, fair and impartial Article 32 hearing.

I insist that you make this memorandum an exhibit and attach it to the record.

David Sheldon
Defense Counsel

Copy to:
File
Trial Counsel
Convening Authority

This Week on The Front Line: The Pendleton 8 Documents

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Back Up After the Hacking Attacks

At about 1800 hours yesterday, ER was hacked. (For photos of the damage, click here.) It looks like a Jordanian Muslim group, right? All the points are in place: The broken English, references to Allah and infidels and the rest of it. But let’s take a closer look at the attack.

a) The wp-posts database was not fully deleted. But two years’ worth of posts were wiped out. Why is this significant? I began writing about the Pendleton 8 two years ago this month.

b) The user database was deleted.

c) Backups were deleted.

d) Tag and category database tables were deleted, while everything else was left alone.

What’s the point of all of this? The hacker deleted everything on my site having to do with the Pendleton 8 case. Every tag, every category, every post, everything. Don’t believe me? Do a search.

I had most of the site (sans the two years’ of articles, of course) back up last night but this morning they hit me again, this time taking more posts and altering my actual Wordpress files to redirect my site to one of my subdomains.

Long story short is, we fought back and forth for control of the site all morning. I finally deleted it all and rolled back my WP version. That seems to have stopped the attacks (someone needs to look into WP 2.5’s security holes). I’m working to get stuff back online from hosting company backups. Will update as I can.

Oh, and to the parties who put so much time and work into making sure my Pendleton 8 material was vaporized–Never fear. It’s going back up. In fact, by Saturday’s episode of The Front Line, there will be an entire archive of case material, including the NCIS work product from their “investigation,” statements, reports, photos of the body after the incident, and even documentation showing the Iraqi witnesses and “family” members to be terrorists–NOT innocent Iraqis who had just lost a loved one. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he’s been making sure I have the information I need to get out the truth about this case.

As for the other things we’ve been known for over the last few years, such as Brother Against Brother, the Ilario Pantano case, and even the Israeli-Lebanon War coverage…it’s gone. Backups were destroyed. If you have anything on your blog that you maybe posted at some point from ER, please let me know. I’d love to recreate what I can.

Regardless of who is responsible for the total loss of four years worth of writing, you can be assured of one thing: I will not stop writing. I will not stop exposing Islam as the piece of trash, pedophilia-loving, goat-f***ing, baby-cutting, insane world domination bulls*** that it is. I will not stop exposing the current military justice system as the broken, ridiculous, corrupt, farce of an idea that IT is.

As my friend Ilario says…”Molon Labe!” You want my weapons?

Come and get them.

Pendleton 8 Exposed: Autopsy and Pathology Report

As promised, here are the first of many documents to come in the Pendleton 8 case. This is the autopsy of a dead Iraqi that even the report admits is only “believed to be” Awad. You’ll see handwritten notes throughout the report, and these are the notes of Sgt Larry Hutchins himself.

What makes this document so incredible is that there is no proof that the man autopsied is even the man the Marines killed that night. In fact, there is some evidence to show that the government autopsied someone who was NOT Awad, and then used that autopsy in their railroad job of the Pendleton 8. To cover their tracks, the NCIS claims they did DNA research on the man and the DNA “matches.” What they don’t tell you is that the “match” was only between the man autopsied and the man exhumed from a