Hey, Girl! Isn’t this great news?!? Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I don’t understand what happened. It can’t be common for charges to be dropped between an Article 32 and a court martial. Maybe we’ll learn more tomorrow in the NC Times. In the meantime, I’m just stunned. Happy, but stunned.
The statements against 2nd Lt. Nathan Phan that THREE Marines said were not true; these same Marines indicated that NCIS agents had coerced and threatened and then ordered them to sign statements to the contrary; the prosecutors who browbeat them in an effort to convince them to stick with the NCIS-fabricated version of events; NCIS Special Agents who couldn’t be found to testify for the hearing.
And then there’s the Lt. Col Pigott who totally made a farce of the hearings. He’s up first with the first Haditha Marine in less than a week.