So it was payoff for past ‘support’ of the defense industry?
That’s what I believe.
There is also the fact that Winter authorized somewhere around 70 NCIS agents to investigate the Haditha Marine incident and Murtha was shooting his mouth off about them being cold blooded killers quite awhile before that investigation was even completed. Murtha was slandering them in May and they weren’t charged until December.
Murtha tried to say he got that info from Marine Corps Commandant General Hagee but it was proven Murtha didn’t meet with Gen. Hagee until a week after he shot his mouth off, then he said he got it from officials in DOD. Many of ue believe he could have gotten it from Winter tho I doubt we’ll ever know where he got it.