Posted on 01/20/2007 7:46:41 PM PST by RedRover
The Haditha Marine case, with its leaks of false information including, possibly, tidbits of confessions, has a recent parallel.
Remember the case of Petty Officer Daniel M. King? You don’t?
Evidently, neither does the Washington Post, Associated Press, National Public Radio, and the rest of the media that repeats every NCIS rumor as gospel. This is surprising because it wasn't that long ago that the NCIS lied to them all.
It was the Daniel M. King case, a few short years ago, that should make everyone suspicious of every leak, and every media report, in the Haditha Marines case.
Petty Officer King was a Navy cryptanalyst: Cryptologist Technician (Collection) First Class (CTR1). He was arrested in 1999 on suspicion of espionage, and was summarily stripped of all his rights as a citizen of this country.
NCIS agents administered a polygraph test. It is possible that the agents were not properly trained. In any event, Daniel King’s polygraph was ruled “inconclusive”. At the same time, no hard evidence was found to back up the charge. So the NCIS agents needed a confession.
Petty Officer King was detained by and subjected to a torturous interrogation that lasted over 26 days for 19 to 20 hours at a time.
At a Congressional hearing, attorney Jonathan Turley would testify, “The NCIS manufactured a theory of espionage without foundation and then took steps to compel statements to support that theory. The tapes and evidence secured by the defense in this case reveal agents seeking a trophy not the truth.”
At the same hearing, Lieutenant Robert A. Bailey (JAG, US Naval Reserve), stated:
“The conduct of NCIS agents in this case was nothing short of shocking. Independent reviewers have stated that their techniques were barbaric….
That such conduct occurred at the hands of NCIS is not surprising….Indeed, such conduct is predictable based on the training and guidance manual published by the NCIS.
According to the NCIS Manual, Chapter 14 - Interrogations, any person who adamantly denies any wrongdoing and points to his clean record is "subconsciously confessing."
If a confused suspect asks what is going to happen to him, the NCIS believes this is an indication that he "is beginning a confession."
Additionally, agents are to convey the idea that they will "persist as long as required to resolve the issue under investigation" and that they "will not give up the interrogation."….
[Petty Officer] King's only recourse was to confess to a crime he did not commit in the hopes that he would eventually receive a lawyer and the truth would come out.”
Finally, the truth did come out--despite the efforts of the NCIS. Petty Officer King was not a spy.
He was released in March 2001 after a hellish 520 days in confinement. Confinement in "Special Quarters," the equivalent to maximum security lock-down condition in which he spent approximately 20 hours a day in a six-foot by nine-foot cell.
Today, the NCIS is continuing the same criminal behavior of coercing confessions and ignoring rules and ethics in pursuit of its target. You haven't been reminded of this story in the mainstream media. But the truth is there for anyone willing to look. It's all right here at Documents in the Case of US v. Daniel M. King .
Spreading the word can be an act of patriotism. If the truth stays secret, the very worst of men will bring down our nation's very best.
You might be interested in this. There's complete media amnesia about the King case and the questions it raises about trusting leaks from the NCIS.
I know from experience that sometimes on a "heater" case that the field command ranks in the case of the military, the police chiefs in the case of law enforcement are pressured by politicians to get a criminal case closed and sent for prosecution. Sometimes a decision had already been made as to what the outcome of the criminal case should be. The investigators are "advised" that this is a case of "murder", "suicide", or fill in the blank_________, now go prove the outcome, which is exactly the opposite of what a thorough investigation should be.
Does the name Mike Nifong sound familiar?
Federally Mandated Lynching - The Lacrosse Rape Case
http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=walkerb&date=070121
Here's just a few of the NCIS abusive techniques used in their interrogation/prosecution. Amazingly, most of this only came to light when some interrogation tapes were accidently found by one of King's lawyers working on a seperate case.
"The intrusive, threatening, and illegal form of custody employed by these agents placed CTR1 King in a coercive and inescapable environment in which he was essentially subjected to custodial interrogation 24 hours a day seven days a week for 26 days. He would spend every waking minute with NCIS agents. They would wake him up in the morning, monitor him while he took a shower, take him to breakfast, take him to their office for interrogations, take him back to a safe house in the evening, monitor him while he slept, monitor his phone calls to his family, require that he obtain permission to call his daughters or mail a letter, and then start the process over again the next day. One agent told CTR1 King that he would shoot King if he tried to run away. Agents prominently displayed their firearms whenever they took CTR1 King outside the safe house. Agents made notes of everything CTR1 King might say that they felt they could later use in a prosecution, including expressions of hopelessness or fatigue at the process."
"In addition to depriving CTR1 King of sleep, the agents would threaten him and his family. During one interrogation, SA Hyter learned that CTR1 King is very close to his family, especially his daughters. He then told CTR1 King that he must come up with an explanation for his inability to pass the polygraph examination, or NCIS agents would be forced to interrogate his family in the same manner in which they were interrogating CTR1 King."
"At a later interrogation, SA Helen Sherry told CTR1 King the he must confess to espionage or "black operations" people would go after his family."
"According to NCIS reports, agents interviewed CTR1 King's former wife, his two daughters, sisters, and his brother-in-law "under the pretext of a routine background investigation." This was an outright lie. Even more troubling than these lies are the attempts by agents to interview CTR1 King's minor daughter, Melissa King, outside the presence of her mother. This happened after CTR1 King had been placed in the brig. At the time, Melissa was only 15 years old and living with her mother in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mrs. Jill King had made it very clear to the agent, SA Kelly Murphy, that she did not want Melissa to be interviewed without Mrs. King's consent and presence. SA Murphy was undeterred. She attempted to meet Melissa after school before her mother got home. Melissa said she did not want to talk. SA Murphy eventually gave up when Mrs. King told her she would be contacting a lawyer about the harassment."
"Third, agents ignored CTR1 King's efforts to obtain an attorney. CTR1 King clearly asked for an attorney and the agents refused to let him have one."..." Apparently when CTR1 King asked if he could speak with a lawyer, SA Wilson responded, "the only way you are getting through this is through us. Besides what are they going to give you? Some [Navy] lieutenant or [Marine] Captain? I eat twenty of them for breakfast" or words to that effect."
"Once CTR1 King was placed in the brig and charges were preferred, NCIS provided reams of documentary evidence to the prosecution who in turn provided a copy to the defense. In a clear violation of national security law, NCIS agents decided to label every single document Secret."... "A few examples will suffice to demonstrate the absurdity of the classification of this material. The Secret documents included a photocopy of a birthday card and envelope that CTR1 King sent his daughter while he was held at the safehouse in Guam."... "The contents of CTR1 King's wallet were photocopied and labeled Secret, to include his Blockbuster video card, his ATM Card, his Ohio driver's license, his military identification card, and a discount card for the Food Lion supermarket. "
Link to Statement of Lt. Robert A. Bailey in RedRover's link above for the full text.
Murtha wanted publicity so he went public. To your point, Murtha's actions give us an unusual look at how a politician can direct the outcome of an "investigation".
"I never lost faith in the Navy," King says. "The Navy, to me, (is) those men and women that I served with. The people who did this are not the men and the women that I served with in the Navy.
"I love my country. I love the people that I served with. I loved my job and I would do it again," King adds.
It's easy to see why the Powers That Be are hostile to civilian lawyers and to the defense funds that help pay for them. If King had played ball, the whole thing could have been wrapped up with a plea deal and no one would ever know the truth.
Amen.. And I am with you on trying to understand the why. People keep explaining it to me, i STILL do get it.
Is it out of the question to ask King to bring up the past himself in lieu of what is going on with this NCIS misconduct?
After reading about this it makes me wonder what they did to get to Dela Cruz.
Cindie
Seems like NCIS is using some of the same tactics as in the past:
Current investigation related to Hamdania Marines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768587/posts
NORTH COUNTY -- The investigative practices of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service will be under scrutiny later this month when three of its agents are expected to take the stand in a Camp Pendleton courtroom to answer an allegation they fabricated parts of statements being used in the prosecution of a Marine lieutenant.
David Sheldon, an attorney for 2nd Lt. Nathan Phan, alleged Friday that the agents added information into the statements taken from three Marines last spring that said they saw his client taking part in the assault of Iraqi civilians. The information they added, Sheldon contends, was false.
Those same three Marines have since consented to a request from Phan's defense team to provide signed affidavits saying they never told the agents Phan assaulted anyone.
"The question has to be 'What would motivate these three Marines to lie,'" Sheldon said during a telephone interview Monday. "Why would they bother to make up these allegations?"
One of the three Marines, Lance Cpl. Christopher Faulkner, testified Friday that he provided the affidavit because the statement attributed to him by the military's law enforcement agency was "a lie."
Now for a Flashback to 1990 from an article in USNews
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/921109/archive_018611_6.htm
In another case reviewed by U.S. News, however, it appears that the witness had no reason to lie or challenge NIS agents' account of the events in question. On a night in August 1990, Marine Lance Cpl. William "Chip" Jahn fired his .22-caliber rifle inside base housing and, as his family fled, then wandered around outside with the rifle. A standoff ensued between Jahn and military police as Jahn continued wandering about the yard, the rifle resting across his shoulders. Witnesses said the military police exercised great restraint, but when Jahn approached a Marine sergeant, the officer shot Jahn in the leg and disarmed him. Jahn's defense attorney said that his client was despondent and possibly suicidal. He was accused of six crimes, including attempted murder of the sergeant. Anne Colombo, a neighbor who witnessed the incident, was interviewed by the NIS. A few days later, Colombo says, an agent returned with a handwritten statement and asked her to sign it. Colombo said at a hearing that she examined the statement and saw that it was full of errors, including a sentence that quoted her as stating that she saw Jahn point his gun at the marine who shot and disarmed him. "I told the [agent] that wasn't how it went," Colombo advised a Navy judge, "but they just kind of blew me off." When Colombo continued to object to the report, she said, the agent told her, "This is just--I need it for my records. It's just a statement." Jahn was discharged and all criminal charges were dismissed.
Can you find him?
I've been wondering the exact same thing. Unbelievable that fancy law fims, the ACLU, the media, the Red Cross, the FBI, etc., etc., keep a watchful eye on Gitmo but turn a blind eye barbarous treatment of US Marines.
Good call. If anyone can get a hold of a way to reach him, I'd love to have him on the show.
Lily's got a shot. She's one of the good ones, euphoria.
Thanks for that find.
Yes,your right.
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