[RedRover]

So when the SecNavy finally relents and cleans house at NCIS he can 1) abolish the polygraph and 2) insist that interviews be recorded. That’s for starters.

Good to see you, jude.

[jazusamo]

It sounds like the SecNavy should also tell the NCIS to complete the entire investigation before charges are brought against anyone.

Going back after the Article 32 hearings and piecemealing the balance of an investigation does not sound too professional to me.

While he’s at it he might take the time to fire Special Agent Nayda Mannle for incompetency also.

[gardencatz]

While acknowledging that the polygraph did not indicate that Sharratt's account to investigators was deceptive, Mannle also testified that the account the Marines gave of what happened when four homes were stormed by the Marines did not match what some family members of the slain Iraqis said occurred.

Are these the same family members whose story changed with each new telling? Like the brother of one died in 3 or 4 different places? Like the young girl who KNEW the bomb was going off that morning so didn't go to school and covered her ears beforehand? And given that, the NCIS takes the word of these people over that of our Marines?

[snip]

The defense also is trying to show that forensic evidence taken from a bedroom where men died inside the fourth house is inconsistent with an account given by those men's surviving family members, who told investigators the men were herded into that room and executed in rapid succession.

So forensic evidence doesn't match the stories of the "family" members. The Marines' account differs from the family but the NCIS is persecuting (yes, I mean persecuting, not prosecuting) these men? And no one in the government or the military brass gives a damn. I'm truly sickened by this.

Cindie