You’re still trying to say that the case agent for the Haditha investigation is just an office manager?
Her supervisor, SA Cranfill, considered himself a team coordinator. His own testimony about the reporting relationship doesn’t support the hierarchy above Mannle you keep suggesting. He wasn’t, by his own testimony, bustling around giving orders to flunkies.
If you don’t consider Mannle a lead investigator, you’ll have to explain why she was assigned to interview crucial witnesses, for starters.
And, yes, she interviewed women but she also interviewed men.
You’re right that this bit of testimony was not important to LCpl Sharratt’s exoneration.
It’s just a sidebar that provides a window into NCIS procedures and mentality. A little comic relief for people who’ve been following the case for the past 18 months. Sorry it failed to amuse.
“If you don’t consider Mannle a lead investigator, you’ll have to explain why she was assigned to interview crucial witnesses, for starters.”
How about ... she wasn’t - At the house she was tasked with interviewing anyone IF they found someone and they expected not not find anyone - hardly “crucial”.
With Sharratt she was tasked with reading others questions and taking down answers, and as you say NOT deviating in any way.
With Kallop she assisted at the end, whatever that means.
Someone was telling her what to do and when to do it.
Even when they asked her about titling Sharratt, she has to explain “ Well, I didn’t decide to title anybody, me myself.”
Q. Would that have affected your recommendation as regards to the titling decision?
So, it appears she makes a reccomendation ( as other co-case agents might do ) and someone else makes the decision - fit’s being an office manager.
“Her supervisor, SA Cranfill, considered himself a team coordinator. His own testimony ...”
Got Link ?