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Home Front: WoT
Lawyers: Threats Used Against Hamdania.Marines
2006-06-17
ht to Drudge
Pentagon investigators threatened the death penalty and used other coercive techniques to obtain statements from some of the seven Marines and a Navy corpsman jailed for the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian, two defense lawyers say.
illegal if threatened against Gitmo scumbags?
Attorney Jane Siegel, who represents Marine Pfc. John Jodka, 20, said Naval Criminal Investigative Service officials spoke to her client three times after he was taken into custody May 12. Jodka was questioned for up to eight hours at a time and was not offered water or toilet breaks, Siegel said.
Where's AI or ACLU or HRW? Cowardly traitorous hypocrites.
Posted by:Frank G

#3  The Gitmo detainees are not going to be tried before a court of law. They were captured on an active battlefield and are being held as illegal combatants. Information solicited from them is not for prosecution of crimes. It is being employed to identify the terrorist network, means of operation, and potential future actions.

Those ’policed’ up in a criminal investigation have to be handled differently if the ’authorities’ intend to criminally prosecute. Miranda warnings and, once given and invoked, the presence of his/her attorney must be followed. ‘If’ the information posted is valid, it appears they’ve already jeopardized their case.

The Military Court of Appeals has no sense of humor. The command chain may indeed be able to railroad someone for a while, but in the end, the MCA will hammer back. ThatÂ’s when separate investigations begin focused on those involved in corrupting the process.
Posted by: Hupitle Phereger1161   2006-06-17 08:05  

#2  Wait a frikkin' minute....OK I'm spouting off without reading the entire article but what's described above IS NOT THE HADITHA CASE.... this whole crap bag is so out of hand that even the basic facts aren't being accounted for - and as such...those poor Marines are screwed.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2006-06-17 01:44  

#1  Pisses me off.

Pretty fucking bad when illegal combatants who have a habit of sawing off heads and blowing up innocent civilians in cold blood get kid-glove treatment while our own men - who are fighting the above and risking their lives so traitors like the NYT, LAT, Murtha and Kerry can slander them are treated as common criminals before even being charged.

What the hell is the brass thinking? Who's side are they on anyway? Apparently not ours! Do they *want* to lose the WOT? That is what they are working toward. Sounds like someone needs to clean house. And a few people (and a couple of Senators) need to be brought up on charges treason or aiding-and-abedding the enemy.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-06-17 01:29  

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