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Open letter to Congressman Delahunt (D) Mass

Tim Harrington, Sgt HMM-165, has been personally involved with the families of the accused Marines of the Hamdania Case, (PENDLETON 8 ) and Haditha.
During this time, Tim has been in constant contact with his state rep, William Delahunt, D-MA 10th district. Mr Delahunt is the representative of Sgt Hutchins who was found guilty in his court martial for the charge of murdering a civilian in Iraq.

This issue is important because it has shown a level of corruption and perjury in the NCIS system and specifically 2 individuals that are common to the Hamadania and Haditha cases. It also shows a pattern of the government using evidence to prosecute but denying access to that evidence for the defense. ( Un-Manned aerial footage taken by drones over the combat area )

As we sit here, a documentary is being made to expose this. Also, some high ranking individuals involved with the JAG corp are aware of these incidents and are offering to testify before congress. These officers are above the O-5 grade.

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BOLD words are Sandy's]

By Sandy:

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh a couple of days ago. He said something about McCain that bothers me.

I’d already heard a lot about the government wanting to give Gitmo detainees the same rights as Americans in the judicial system but hadn’t heard of McCain’s interview with Der Spiegel, a German magazine.

Question from Der Spiegel: “America has lost a lot of friends because President George W. Bush angered, indeed outraged, them. He allowed human rights to be violated at Guantanamo Bay, and he dismissed the joint effort to combat global warming. Under a President McCain, could we expect a change of course?”

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By Diana West Friday, January 4, 2008

A major story of 2007 was the progressive unraveling of the case against the seven Marines and one Navy corpsman [Blog note: Now known as the "Pendleton 8"...from the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, or "3/5"] charged in connection with the Nov. 19, 2005, killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha during a day of intense action. To date, charges against four of the men have been dismissed altogether. Two men have been ordered to a court martial. Two cases are pending.

What a difference a year has made since charges came down at the end of 2006. The New York Times in October mourned — I mean, noted — the shift: “Last year, when accounts of the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of Marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced its defining atrocity, just as the conflict in Vietnam had spawned the My Lai massacre a generation ago.”

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12/28/07: Below received via email this morning. Interesting reading…(Thanks to Mark Shallow, USMC Ret)

This week our daughter Cathy was traveling home from college to be with us for Christmas. When she checked in at the airport in College Station (home of Texas A&M where she is a student) she found they had canceled her flight due to mechanical problems with the aircraft. Because of the Christmas holiday, available seats on other flights were almost impossible to find.

After waiting many hours and not finding any seats on other flights, things were not looking good. Alone in the airport (with the exception of workers) she didn’t know if she was going to make it home to see us. After sitting on a bench and crying in frustration an older gentleman approached her and asked what was wrong. She explained the situation. They chatted a while, and the gentleman explained he was visiting A&M to see his grandson get commissioned in the Marines.

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