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Another Haditha Marine Found Not Guilty

by BigT | June 5, 2008 at 05:23 pm

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Are any of our congressmen and senators who condemned these men without a trial rushing to offer apologies? How about the media? What - no? All I've got to say is that these same people who convicted these Marines in the court of public opinion are many of the same people who shriek and shout when terrorists don't get a quick trial. And they wonder why some people question whose side they are on.

A Marine intelligence officer accused of trying to cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis appeared stunned at first when a jury acquitted him of the charges.

For more than two years, 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson had been under suspicion, accused of ordering the destruction of evidence in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths to come out of the war.

"I didn't really believe it was going to end until they said not guilty," Grayson said in his first public comments following the verdict. "The case was so volatile, you didn't know which way it was going to go."

Grayson had always maintained his innocence. On Wednesday, a military jury agreed with him.

Cheers erupted as the jury found him not guilty of ordering a sergeant to delete photographs of the bodies from a digital camera and laptop computer.