| From the website of Bob McCarty, Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 2006. |
As my first investigative reporting effort related to the SEALs' case, I offer six important facts about the case you're likely not to read about in the mainstream media supplied to me by a source whom I cannot name inside the Pentagon:
1) The charges or accusations against the three Navy SEALs were not made from within the SEAL community. Sources tell me they came from someone within the Navy's Master-at-Arms community.
2) The SEALs were presented with the option of going to Captain's Mast for these charges but declined this form of non-judicial punishment and opted for court-martial instead. Why? Because they did not want to be judged by those outside of the SEAL community and believed the court-martial route would assure them the representation necessary to prove their innocence.
| There was speculation here to that effect when the story broke. |
3) At no time did anyone within the Naval Special Warfare community have any control over these accusations or events other than providing advice or guidance to the accused SEALs.
4) The integrity of the chain of custody of the prisoner is at question.
5) There are extenuating circumstances that indicate there is questionable evidence in some of the accusations made.
6) Evidence will come out in a court-martial that might not have come out in a Captain's Mast in favor of the accused SEALs.
| If true, the result will make idiots think twice before trying something like this on again. What, after all, is the penalty for someone who deliberately brings false charges of this seriousness, besides ruining one's own military career? |
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