OK, please show legal cause to arrest him--cite the specific statute he's guilty of violating.
True. But journalists used to have war footage and even cables or dispatches approved. Before Nam most were patriotic enough that it wasn't a big deal. This scum bucket has done nothing but fuel the Jihad fire. And the MSM is using the incident to damn our soldiers. Had I been through what this Marine had been through and knowing what they have faced every day, I'd have emptied my clip into a moving terrorist scumbag.
So I'll go to the original secondary offer, let Kevin Sites join his heroes the terrorists and film their happy exploits.
From the DOD rules for embedded reporters...
3.R. There is no general review process for media products. See para 6.A. for further detail concerning security at the source.
This whole thread was premised, 400+ posts ago, on the goofy notion that: "Was not the reporter under the duty to hand over this tape to military authorities,under the rules of imbeds?". Well, it is now conclusively established that there are no such rules for embeds.
--Boot Hill
for the sake of discussion, let us consider the death of the irregular fighter to be a war crime.
This is what the UN, EU, and assorted a$$holes-other choose to call it, so let us run with it.
There were three people directly involved:
1. The irregular fighter
2. The Marine
3. Kevin Sites
I find it interesting that Sites is a known anti-war activist...
was in the room at the right time, camera rolling...
apparently KNEW the bldg had been cleared by another group of Marines...
yet neglected to inform the incoming troops of this datum.
It seems to me that, if a war crime has been committed, the perpertator is Mr. Sites: knowingly permitting and contributing to the death-by-gunfire of a wounded and incapacitated hostile for the purposes of garnering ratings, fame, and furtherance of his anti-war/anti-American agenda.
Mr. Sites and his "negligence" should be investigated at least as rigorously as those of the gunner. Indeed, I am of the opinion that the Marine is utterly blameless in this incident.
That's the way I see it.