The discrepancies in the timeline for that night, the apparent disinformation from the US military, a massacre carefully planned to include only houses in 2 different villages where the man was not home and that ended with Bales going back to base, turning himself in, and asking for a lawyer... this whole story has the telltale signs of something being not right.
Reminds me a lot of 2 other assassinations: Bin Laden and Judge John Roll (in the Giffords shooting).
We’ll probably never know what really happened - especially after the Haditha mess showed us that we can’t trust the NCIS or military leadership to tell the truth.
Funny you should mention the NCIS ...they have a long standing and rather notorious reputation for implementing “cover-ups” in order to protect the careers of flag officers who found themselves in “difficult” legal predicaments. I remember my Father, who was a career officer in the Marine Corps (from 1938 to 1965), referring to the NCIS as “the Admiral’s Mafia.”
You make some good points. I, too, wondered a lot about the Judge Roll shooting.
If this suspect dies in prison before the trial, it would not surprise me.
The latest reports are that the suspect has “no memory” of any of the events that night.
There is much being hidden about this case.