[Modernman]

That reporter should be arrested and tried for treason for aiding and abetting the enemy!

Why? For filming events as they happened?

[RamingtonStall]

Ref: <<"That reporter should be arrested and tried for treason for aiding and abetting the enemy!
Why? For filming events as they happened?">>

No, for releasing the tape to the press and NBC.

RamS

[hawkiye]

No for skewing the report and feeding inflammatory propaganda to the enemy! The elitist media has been reporting on our military in a negative light inspiring the enemy to fight on just like John Kerry did. Where are all the reports of heroism? Where is the report from a day ago of this same Marine taking a shot in the face and watching his buddy killed by a booby trapped body?

Do you think we would even be discussing this if the reporter had not been filming or better yet shown his support of the troops by not releasing something he knew would crucify a Marine in the PC anti-American media who never risked a hang nail in their life, rather then throwing him to the wolves for DOING HIS JOB PROTECTING HIS SQUAD????? Or are you some kind of closet leftist?

[AMDG&BVMH]

"For filming events as they happened?"

That is NOT what he did. He CREATED the scene.

He knew more about the situation than the Marines. He knew wounded had been left there. He did NOT tell the Marines this key information.

However he DID whisper into his mike as he was filming "these are the wounded who were left behind". I heard that when Hannity played the complete tape yest.

The Marine, after the shooting, exclaimed, I did not KNOW, SIR.

I.e. that these were wounded who had been disarmed. (However, someone else could have come into the bldg in the mean time in anycase.)

Seits DENIED the Marines important contextual information -- so he could film them going into the building, tension filled, not knowing what to expect. High drama.

So Seits set the stage, and let roll the camera. He CREATED this scene, then stood back to record it . . .

Not only is he guilty of putting a young Marine on the spot with fractions of a second to make a decision, he is MORE guilty than the Marine pulling the trigger -- because HE had more knowledge of the situation.

PLUS, if he thought a war crime was in the process of taking place, HE should have intervened, NOT stood there to record it on film, then LATER posture how UNFORTUNATE it was!! ANYONE has a moral duty to intervene.

He needs to be charged.