Nat Helms, author of the recent book “My Men are Heroes,” has written extensively about Haditha. He said: “Sullivan, who is prosecuting Wuterich, may eventually face some heat of his own for how and why star prosecution witness [Lance Cpl.] Humberto Mendoza managed to get transferred to Sullivan’s Chicago-based reserve unit as a driver after he was granted immunity.
Another article from 2007 USA Today:
Among those provided with immunity to testify are an officer who told troops to raid a house and a sergeant who took photographs of the dead but later deleted them from his camera.Mendoza, who was not charged in the case, told investigators that he shot at least two men, but did so because they were in houses declared hostile.
"I was following my training that all individuals in a hostile house are to be shot," Mendoza told investigators. He was given immunity Dec. 18, just days before the Marine Corps announced murder charges against four enlisted men and dereliction of duty charges against four officers.
Thanks, xzins. I had completely forgotten about those articles and remember them now that you linked them.