[Lancey Howard]

"It's understandable why they didn't go after the line officers," said Kevin McDermott, who represents Captain Lucas McConnell, the company commander who was not at the scene of the shootings in Haditha. "They would have had to throw Huck under the bus as well."

What makes Huck untouchable?

[RedRover]

He’s just too high up. The suggestion is that charging Gen Huck means charging the Corps itself. So they’re pruning the branch at the lieutenant colonel level to preserve the rest of the tree (so to speak).

This isn’t my theory, but it’s what people mean when they say the Corps eats its own to protect itself.