Posted on 08/12/2007 4:07:09 PM PDT by RedRover
This is the first time that any portion of the LCpl Sharratt hearing transcripts has been made available. I hope to have more soon.
To read the actual transcript of SA Platt's testimony, click at the link.
What’s Platt’s personal relationship with John Murtha?
Excellent question! Throughout Platt’s testimony, he says he narrowly focused on his assignments—which did not include following exculpatory leads.
If Agent Platt was following a script, I’d like to see whose signature was on it!
Excellent post, Red.
Red INSERT MIDDLE NAME Rover!
If I die, it will be the fault of you, NCIS and Inspector Clouseau
: )
Why does he look like inspector Clouseau?
Excellent post!
Nailed it, SA Platt is a real life Inspector Clouseau and to think the NCIS affect so many in our military.
(The link above has the transcript without pictures, if you want to read it that way.)
“Torturing Freema” is my middle name! ;)
Where ARE my manners (I’ve been reading and forgot to ping) ping.
Excellent thread. Thanks for sharing this important info.
Even the prosecution must be disgusted with NCIS.
Sure looks like the boneheads on the prosecution side are going to slowly get put through the hamburger grinder. About damn time.
Dang Red after reading that transcript, I think Barney Fife would have been a better choice than Clouseau. That was plum pitiful and an embarrassment to investigators every where. I sincerely hope this “investigator” is now investigating parking violations or the like.
BTW - his statement about “murder” was entirely too explicit to have just been a misspoken word. That phrase “right before their eyes” is telling indeed.
Discovery 27 Jul 07 00159
Q. Do you have any knowledge of what is actually in the report?
A. No, I do not.
Q. So what are your personal observations when you entered that back bedroom in house four?
A. Prior to our arrival at house four, we had no photographs from that house. The previous team of NCIS agents that had deployed out into that area, for whatever reason, the photographs that they took at house four somehow were compromised. So they had nothing; nothing on the outside, nothing on the inside, nothing of the area adjacent to house four. So we made the determination that we were going to go to house four first, being that we had nothing from that house.
Discovery 27 Jul 07 00161
Q. Was any other evidence gathered in that room?
A. Samples of all the major groupings of what we believed to be bloodstains were taken for future DNA analysis.
Q. You had mentioned earlier today that you ended up interviewing some Iraqi witnesses. How did that happen?
A. Again, those interviews occurred after I was initially at the dam. I departed for Fallujah and returned to the dam about a week or ten days later, arranged for these interviews to be conducted. I was escorted from the forward operating base by the Marines to house four where I conducted the interviews in a living room.
Q. How many days after the deaths did these interviews take place, approximately?
A. It was approximately ten days.
Q. Do you recall who you interviewed?
A. Yes, I do.
Q. Who did you interview?
A. The first interview I conducted was a young Iraqi female by the name of Ehab.
You’re welcome, LilAngel!
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