Lt Corabi testified that investigators did not examine the truck but said investigators later told him the victims were not building a roadside bomb.
Well, alrighty then.
How in the world can anyone claim there was no intent to either plant an IED or practice planting IEDs when no one ever searched the truck?
This is pure witchhunt.
I think the prosectors in this one should be charged with presenting frivolous accusations.
A trained squad that's allowed to engage on their own observations. They see something. It appears at the time to be IED activity, and in retrospect it still seems to be IED activity. They had dead SYRIANS, and the have other participants who've fled but have no nationality. And now we know that they didn't even search the truck.
I don't see how there's any way these guys get convicted.
Again, they should be reimbursed all expenses, incidentals, and the government should have to pay punitive damages.
And whoever the brain was who decided to prosecute this should be charged with frivolous prosecution. That would be the beginnings of counter-balancing this new JAG ROE: "Prosecute at all costs!"