VIDEO: STAFF SERGEANT RAY GIROUARD'S SWEETWATER HOMECOMING (CLICK HERE)

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UPDATE: RAY GIROUARD'S RETURN HOME TO SWEETWATER (CLICK HERE)

Army Staff Sergeant Raymond Lee Girouard

Whitney Holmes - WATE Channel 6 T.V (click here)


"[Staff Sergeant]Girouard is expected to be back in Sweetwater around 8:00 Monday night. A public homecoming celebration is scheduled for 11:00 Saturday morning at Engleman Park."

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US military commissions: neither court nor tribunal

Military commissions [and U.S. courts martial] also allowed second-hand evidence, that is to say the presentation of witness statements without the presence of the witness in the courtroom to be challenged on his testimony. Normal US courts would reject such evidence as "hearsay."

Marine Sergeant Ryan Weemer cleared of Iraq killing

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Sgt Weemer's defence argued that prosecutors could not prove he killed
the unarmed captive because there were no bodies, no relatives complaining of
lost loved ones and no forensic evidence.

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JAG HUNTER HERE:

There were no bodies, no relatives, no lost loved ones and no forensic evidence in the cases brought against Marine Sergerant Lawrence Gordon Hutchins, III or Army Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymond Lee Girouard!

But Sergeants Hutchins and Girouard are imprisoned at Fort Leaveanworth.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!

THE CHALLENGE STANDS!

JAG HUNTER here: (posting from the Sweetwater, Tennessee Library)

STEELE'S MARCH (PART III)
(PART I) - (PART II) - (PART IV) - (PART V with related links)

This narrative is intended to explain how and why senior commanders forced-marched Michael Steele into exile, and Steel's innocent subordinates into Defense Department catacombs. The four purposes served in this posting are:

(1) To discuss the "guilty memories" of Ray Girouard's commanders (Part II), exposing his Article 32 probable cause hearing as a counterfeit substitute,

(2) To justify the call for Ray's immediate release, the release of Ray's men, the release of Larry Hutchins, and every other innocent serviceman followed by,

(3) Effecting their return home by Christmas and,

(4) Using examples on these JAG HUNTER pages (this series in particular) to repeat the warning to Americans that U.S. military commanders have forsaken the U.S. Constitution.

So, anyone who has access, get the word to General of the Army George W. Bush (commander in chief): release Ray and the others today/tonight!

Anyone with access to Mike Steele, tell him God and sinners reconcile. Come forward and speak the truth!

MICHAEL STEELE'S BATTALION COMMANDER

~~NATHANIEL JOHNSON, JR.~~

Nathaniel Johnson, Jr. commanded the 3rd battalion of the 187th infantry regiment during the Iron Triangle Operation. Michael Steele, as the brigade commander, was one of Johnson's senior officers.

Ray Girouard was a squad leader and sergeant in CHARLIE company, one of the companies in Nate Johnson's 3rd battalion.

Nate Johnson was one of Ray's senior officers.

Mike Steele, Nate Johnson, and Ray Girouard--operating within there respective combat units--were on the ground on 9 May 2006, near Samara, Iraq, engaged in the combat actions of Iron Triangle.

Nate Johnson, as a combat battalion commander under Steele's brigade command, was intimately familiar and briefed completely on Iron Triangle operational details encompassing every aspect of urban infantry warfare. Nate Johnson had to be completely familiar, for instance, with Mike Steele's specialized Iron Triangle rules of engagement (ROE) so as to effectively deploy Ray Girouard's CHARLIE company in the subsequent battle.

Nate Johnson was present at the 4 May 2006 Iron Triangle pre-mission OPORDER briefing.

Nate Johnson was on the ground--in combat--on 9 May 2006 at and during the Iron Triangle assault, and...

Nate Johnson was present at the 14 May 2006 Iron Triangle post-operational briefing (or "hot wash-up" review and lessons learned meeting).

Nate Johnson's battlefield conduct during Iron Triangle, with that of Johnson's boss, Michael Steele came under criminal scrutiny on 11 May 2006 (OIT's third day).

In fact, Steele's entire stint as 3rd brigade combat team commander had become problematic to Army brass and had soared to crisis status as perceived a rapidly growing threat to the Army's public image. Steele's standing order to "KILL ALL MILITARY AGED MALES" had leaked to the press.

The frenetic activity that erupted to shield senior officers from examination and embarrassment locked-up Ray Girouard and his men in Fort Leavenworth.

EARLY INVESTIGATIONS

Brigadier General Thomas Maffey (one-star flag officer) was an early actor taking notes, gathering facts, interviewing soldiers who fought at Iron Triangle, taking their official statements.

The Army Criminal Investigative Division (or CID) began inquiries.

Steele's command climate rendered the Pentagon's Courtney Masengales panic-stricken.

Steele's KILL ALL MILITARY AGED MALES standing order produced
48 dead at the Multhana Chemical site, (not all of the dead were men) (44 bodies
added to body parts identifying 4 others).

The need for a cover-story pushing the problem to the lowest level combat unit-- disconnecting combat commanders Pete Chiarelli, Mike Steele and Nate Johnson from responsibility and accountability--was as evident as it was urgent.

Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard's name and the names of his squad mates were pulled from the hat in the "Massengale lottery."

It must surprise no one that battalion commander Nate Johnson was directed to assemble and oversee the Article 32 investigation that would ensure the safety of the Army's IMAGE and the careers of many senior political officers.

The Bogus Article 32

Nate Johnson ordered James Daniel to appear to the public as the Article 32 hearing officer. But in this ventriloquist's performance, Daniel was the wooden dummy sitting on Nate Johnson's lap, lifeless and powerless.

Exposition of Daniel--the Article 32 hearing officer--as a government mole is dispositive and fatal. Evidence of government intrigue rapidly accumulates seen through this magnifying glass.

The Article 32 plan was to create a fictive story intended to lead a false path. The fiction became sensational once the death penalty was put in play. The scheme was audacious in its false beginning spawning something even more sinister and hideous.

In these early moments, the work of Nate Johnson is recognized as attempted murder. Physical evidence available to betray Johnson's efforts is concealed or destroyed. What's left only serves to punctuate the government's deception.

The need for secrecy was imperative!

Nate Johnson issued a gag order regarding information that exposed the government campaign against Ray and his men for what it was.

All pertinent documents are locked up or destroyed.

Samara hospital records were collected by government officials and then disappeared. Medical examiner reports are gone. Papers recording the identities of the dead are guarded or shredded.

Available film footage was confiscated never to surface.

Nate Johnson was still in command of the 187th infantry regiment during Ray Girouard's 1 August 2006 Article 32. It was Johnson's 187th infantry regiment that engaged Iron Triangle objectives on 9 May 2006. Johnson himself was a full participant in this operation, and was called as a witness to his own hearing. Johnson denied the request that Johnson appear and answer questions.

Johnson did allow men under his command influence to testify. Twenty-three of twenty-seven Article 32 witnesses were under Johnson's command and control.

Johnson denied requests that his boss, Michael Steele appear to answer questions.

Thomas Maffey's earlier investigation report was disallowed into Article 32 evidence.

When questioned, James Daniel, Johnson's wooden dummy, lied to the assembled Article 32 audience regarding his connections to the case and seven accused soldiers. Daniel, for instance, said he did not know Michael Steele formally. What Daniel the wooden dummy failed to publicly state was that Daniel had met with Steele two-hours earlier to read Steele his rights and attempt an interview.

After the government agents had sufficient time and resources to perfect there counterfeit Article 32 substitution, Johnson dumped the fraud on unalerted and already overworked defense teams. It's a small point really. A belt and suspenders approach. Johnson's other plans made certain there was no possibility to prepare a counter-offensive, even if the time were available.

For example, in agency with other government officials, Johnson populated a witness list of over one-hundred people, knowing fully that many credible witnesses did not exist. This tactic was employed to engage Ray's advocates in activities counterproductive to Ray's defense.

For his part--enjoying the full protection and power afforded him by the U.S. government--Johnson was unconcerned he would suffer any criminal consequence for his manipulation of information and people .

Johnson's insurmountable conflict manifesting himself in command of the investigation of his own outfit was of no consequence to Army brass.

Johnson's mission was to pave the way for Steele's quiet ouster. Johnson's assignment was to ensure Ray and his men ran block to curious outsiders distracting them with a series of death penalty courts-martial.

Under America's War Articles (the Uniform Code of Military Justice) a general court-martial is prohibited without first conducting a proper Article 32 hearing.

Even under its own martial system of discipline, if military governors depart from established process, the investigation or court-martial is void. A nullity. It's nothing!

No Article 32--No
court-martial !!

These are the same pages from DOD's court-martial playbook used in the Camp Pendleton Eight courts-martial package. Marine Sergeant Larry Hutchins is innocent as well as Ray Girouard and for the same sorts of reasons.

More follows...

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!

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JAG HUNTER HERE (posting from the Sweetwater, Tennessee Library):

STEELE'S MARCH (PART I)

(PART II) - (PART III) - (PART IV) - (PART V with related links)

America's courts-martial scheme is burdened by a grim reputation. Experienced readers of courts-martial records become conscious always of power and design. In the series of courts-martial surrounding Operation Iron Triangle (9 May 2006), these distinctive factors quickly emerge from the shadows as a ship emerges from dense fog.

Army Ranger -- Staff Sergeant Raymond L. Girouard is being punished without a jury trial for crimes he never committed.

Courts-martial records are full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. In consequence of reading yesterday some of the earliest Iron Triangle reports the diabolical government agency that acted against Ray and Ray's men took immediate shape and became coherent.

JAG-knifed, Ray Girouard pays with his life for Michael Steele's avarice of rank and audacity.

Colonel "Black Hawk Down" Michael Steele was Iron Triangle's senior on-scene commander and was in Ray's chain of command on 9 May 2006. Steele is a man of reputation.

The small mysteries attendant to the Iron Triangle investigations and discipline hearings are quickly undone with exposition of Steele's unique command climate and Steele's own personal rules of engagement (ROE).

50 to 71 people died during the IT operation. Army officials buried all the bodies in a tomb of classified records.

Steele--a disciple of Civil War General William T. Sherman--crafted an ROE that employed a system of urban infantry warfare fully expressing the power of the U.S. government designed to force the Iraqi people to succumb.

The Fake Article-32

The quicksand foundation in the conduct of the preliminary investigations and in the Article 32 hearing does not support the weight of any of the subsequent IT courts-martial. Instead the hidden hands of government intent are exposed. Ray and his men were picked to protect and shield with their freedoms and their lives the IMAGE of the U.S. Army.

Steele was commanding officer, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

Ray's court-martial, as all the others, were command performances of the 187th Infantry Regiment. These were "family affairs." Mike Steele (brigade commander) was Nathaniel Johnson's, Jr. boss. It was Johnson who ordered the Article 32 investigation into being.

Johnson ordered James P. Daniel to sit as the Art. 32 hearing officer.

Daniel's duty as hearing officer to the formal Art. 32 was to impartially find and report facts.

But Daniel abrogated his authority as impartial fact-finder secretly switching roles to become a combination military detective and prosecutor. A government advocate. Ray's deliberate and dedicated enemy.

Daniel's subsequent activities rendered his own Art. 32 investigation, along with Ray's court-martial (and all the others) not just voidable, but void. All of the IT disciplinary hearings are nothing...as if they never occurred.

Daniel's formal Art. 32 commenced at 1850 hours (6: 50 p.m. local), Tuesday evening, 1 August 2006 in theater Iraq with all attorneys and other actors present.

Nearly two-hours earlier, at 1700 hours (5:00 p.m. local), James Daniel met privately, one-on-one, with suspect Michael Steele. There were no attorneys present. Daniel's purpose at this pre-Art. 32 gathering was to issue to suspect Steele his formal rights warning regarding the events surrounding the IT operation. Daniel would have interviewed Steele had Steele agreed to waive his protections.

Daniel met with six other Iron Triangle suspects to read them their protections and conduct interviews had these men been amenable. That Tuesday afternoon Daniel met with suspect Daniel C. Hart at 1649 hours, with Eric J. Geressy at 1650 hours, and with suspect Leonel Lemus (2253 hours) after the fake 32 hearing shut down.

Daniel met with Micah B. Bivins, Kevin A. Ryan, and David A. Neuman. The date and times of these secret meetings are not recorded.

The scope of Daniel's criminal conduct is extraordinary. None of the seven clandestine encounters were attended by attorneys. NONE OF THEM!

There's more.

In the first thirty-minutes of the Art. 32 starting that Tuesday night, Mr. Michael Waddington (civilian defense counsel for defendant William Hunsacker) asked James Daniel, "Do you know Colonel Steele?"

Daniel answered, "I've met him. I don't know him." Daniel continued, "We're not friends," I've never worked with him." Of course, at this moment in time and place, Daniel lied to a squad of attorneys representing Ray and the others.

The Article 32 hearing officer--Army Lieutenant Colonel James Daniel--openly lied in an open gathering. Daniel's lie is one of the keys that unlocks the door to Ray Girouard's prison cell.

Daniel's contact with suspects before and outside the formal Art. 32 hearing room constitutes witness intimidation and witness influencing/tampering.

Daniel's willful dissembling constitutes a great deal more.

To be continued.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON !

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JAG HUNTER HERE:

Any practice of attainder is a criminal act. Those then who committ acts of attainder are--by extension--criminals.

Facts are stubborn things.

Source: The United States Constitution.

Here endth the lesson.

JAG HUNTER HERE: ATTAINDER'S THREE-PART TEST!

Defense Department policy makers embrace and publicly admit in published policy statements that the U.S. military courts-martial scheme violates the Constitution's ARTICLE I, Section 9, Clause 3 proscription against the crime of Attainder (the Bill of Attainder Clause).

The Constitution outlaws courts-martial!

The Constitution outlaws courts-martial because courts-martial are not courts (that is, federal courts holding trials under Article III) and moreover deny affected persons the constitutional protection of a jury.

In a series of significant Supreme Court cases listed below the High Court constructed a three-part test for attainder that lines up with military precision with published DOD policy.

As a matter of published DOD policy the courts-martial system meets the first Supreme Court test by requiring the affected persons be specifically named on a charge sheet that also gives their rank (Winthrop's Military Law and Precedents, p. 137).

Attainder test #2, as crafted by Supreme Court Justices, requires the affected person(s) experience punishment. DOD policy states that courts-martial sentences constitute criminal judgments. In fact, punishment is a function of military command. American courts-martial are defined as gatherings of persons under orders invested only with criminal punishment powers and authority (Winthrop's Military Law and Precedents, p. 400).

DOD's published policy admission that courts-martial are not a part of the judiciary, but rather an agency of the Executive Department (the President as Commander in Chief) fulfills completely the Supreme Court's thrid test for Attainder. That is, punishments carried out against affected persons are executed lacking a judicial trial (Winthrop's Military Law and Precedents, pgs. 49, 313).

In keeping with DOD's ATTAINDER POLICY is the total absence of outside (the military) review!

NO JUDICIAL APPEAL IS POSSIBLE!

Instead there is substituted ONLY AN EXECUTIVE APPEAL.

"As the [courts-martial] is an EXECUTIVE AGENCY, the appeal is to a superior EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY (the President as CINC). So [in the courts-martial scheme] an Accused has always [and only] an [EXECUTIVE] appeal from [attainder punishment] by courts-martial to the President, [or Defense Secretary,] who, in entertaining and determining such [EXECUTIVE] APPEAL, is assisted and advised by the TJAGS or their respective services (Winthrop's Military Law and Precedents, pgs. 50-54).

Significant Supreme Court cases

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)
Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87 (1810)
Cummings v. Missouri, 71 U.S. (4 Wall) 277 (1867)
United States v. Klein, 80 U.S. (13 Wall) 128 (1871)
United States v. Lovett, 328 U.S. 303 (1946)
United States v. Brown, 381 U.S. 437 (1965)
Nixon v. Administration of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977)
Selective Service System v. Minnesota Publich Interest Research Group, 468 U.S. 84 (1984)

Here endth the lesson!

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JAG HUNTER HERE:

It must be observed, correcting the report of the Advocate/Democrat, Steele's histrionics were delivered TEN DAYS BEFORE this unit deployed to Southwest Asia. This is a pre-deployment briefing, not an after-action hot wash-up.

Army Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard WAS in the auditorium audience.
Whether Steele's grunts and utterances conveyed unlawful orders is an open question. The details of Steel's command philosophy and junior/senior interactions are guarded as national secrets in the voluminous written record attendant to Steele's non-judicial punishment proceedings that took place months before Staff Sgt. Girouard and his men were courts-martialed.

ANITA GORECKI and ALAN DERSHOWITZ both knew the details of Steele's reprimand before the IRON TRIANGLE discipline ceremonies. GORECKI was Ray's privately retained defense counsel, DERSHOWITZ was Col. Steele's paid defense attorney.

None of this information was available in Ray's defense, nor in the defense of his men.

Testimony we heard regarding these matters was coerced!

U.S. ARMY Colonel Michael "BLACKHAWK DOWN" STEELE'S

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT BRIEFING!

COLONEL STEELE WAS RAY GIROUARD'S COMMANDING OFFICER DURING THE IRON TRIANGLE ASSAULT NEAR SAMARA, IRAQ.

THIS VIDEO EVIDENCE WAS UNLAWFULLY PROHIBITED FROM THE COURTS-MARTIAL OF ARMY RANGER/STAFF SERGEANT RAYMOND GIROUARD. GIROUARD AND HIS MEN STOOD UNARMED BEFORE THEIR INQUISITORS, UNABLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

THIS VIDEO ROE BRIEFING COULD JUST AS WELL BE USED TO DEFEND MARINE SERGEANT LAWRENCE HUTCHINS.

AGAIN: THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE IS A BILL OF ATTAINDER!!

Here endth the lesson.

POSTINGS FROM THE SWEETWATER LIBRARY

(Seventh in a series)

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Congressmen and commanders nowadays are like leaky diapers. They can't be trusted and must be frequently changed for the same reasons.

--The JAG HUNTER

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"--'can I call you Court?' she asked him. 'It sounds so--I don't know: so strong and savage. Ruthless, sort of, General Court..."

[Army General Courtney Massengale interrupted the movie starlet, finishing her sentence]

'Ah, but imagine if my last name had been Marshall.' "

--Anton Myrer in his military classic novel: ONCE AN EAGLE (1968)

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The military system can say this for itself: It knows what it wants, and it systematically goes in and gets it."

--John Henry Wigmore, dean of American evidence law and World War I JAG

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JAG HUNTER HERE WITH TIM HARRINGTON AND GEORGE REILLY:



Promising general courts-martial punishment and deep family embarrassment non-related accusations regarding sex crimes and aberrant personal behavior (real or invented) unscrupulous military detectives and JAGs forced false witness testimony to knowingly and illicitly imprison Sergeants Larry Hutchins, Ray Girouard, and other innocent men.

Sponsors in the sacrifice of our sergeants to the gods of political expediency Congressmen Jack Murtha, Bill Delahunt and John Duncan--in concert with the generals, the JAGs, and creep detectives--are furiously scrambling today to contain (with frantic hope to control) the unstoppable political firestorm about to explode in a stiffening wind.

Representatives Norm Dicks, Jay Inslee, and John Shadegg--standing upwind with burnt matches fallen at their feet--suffer the same worries.

But damage control is impossible, overtaken by unfolding events.

The word is out!

Detailed public disclosure regarding threats made against Brad Mason, Jason Graber, Corey Clagett, William Huntsacker, and Robert Pennington forcing these warriors to lie under oath are imminent.

OPPORTUNITY

Ironically it was the perceived threat of compromise and public disclosure that led us to where we find ourselves this day. Disgruntled troops shooting off their mouths combined with Iraqis angling for a hush-money payday panicked U.S. commanders and lawmakers by intimating they'd tell all regarding the true nature of urban street fighting and the rules of engagement (ROE) approved for use by U.S. infantry troops.

It became necessary for the congressmen and commanders to invent barefaced falsehoods to foist a valiant character on themselves. So those specific, but routine combat events about to come under a magnifying glass were declared "war crimes" and the Marines and soldiers involved dragged into courts-martial.

MOTIVE

The strongest argument to be advanced in protest to America's military adventures overseas is that congressmen and commanders are more than capable and willing to entomb innocent infantry soldiers and Marines to conceal from the folks at home the stark reality of urban, counter-insurgent war fighting against an enemy that refuses to wear a uniform.

Given our politically correct and incendiary society congressmen and commanders were unprepared and unable to survive the scorching scrutiny should the ROE for ground operations be revealed.

These command creeps didn't want you to know, for instance, what Marine Lieutenant Nathan Phan recognizes as every day, unremarkable routine combat events:

"We do what is necessary to get the job done" Phan writes. "I'm what they call a Paying Agent. It means I'm authorized to reimburse Iraqi civilians with U.S. government dollars as restitution in the event we damage their personal property or cause unnecessary grief. This tends to happen a lot. Not because we're a bunch of [vulgarity deleted] who like to blow things up, beat [or kill] women and children...[but because] What is necessary for us means unnecessary suffering for them. We conduct raids in the dead of night, kick families out of their homes and take over...we do this on a regular basis. This may seem harsh or even cruel, but it is absolutely necessary."

Make no mistake...Sergeants Hutchins and Girouard and their men faced general courts-martial for doing what is commonly considered "absolutely necessary." They did exactly as they were ordered!

Army Colonel Michael "Black Hawk Down" Steele exhorted his men to regard the enemy as faceless, immoral, and inhuman (what we know of Steele's "hoo-ah" speech comes from those very few people who've viewed a not yet released documentary titled: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER). Steel's men were ordered to kill all military aged males (MAMs) on sight during their IRON TRIANGLE operation assault on a terrorist training camp near Samara, Iraq. It was in the infantry's ROE!


But congressmen and commanders could not allow Lt. Phan's or Col. Steele's testimonies to be publicly voiced in defense of their sergeants and infantrymen. Military aristocrats, martial royalty toiled aggressively, tirelessly, and decisively to block ground commanders from repeating orders they'd given their men in the field.

Ergo: The need for the cover stories!

MEANS

"The military system can say this for itself: It knows what it wants and it systematically goes in and gets it!"

For the cover story plans to work command racketeers had to hang the sergeants (plausible deniability doncha know).

Since May 1951 the character of the court-martial is that of a psychological operation (PSYOP). It's simply an imposing tool in the ultimate expression of Executive will. Courts-martial--in their design, intent, and sublime operation--are the naked application of irresistible force.


The courts-martial PSYOPs process is forceful enough to make people lie about others and to lie about themselves.

Courts-martial PSYOPs prey upon the very weakest.

Flag officers--generally speaking--do not face courts-martial (pun intended!).

Unscrupulous military detective creeps and deceitful, dishonest JAGs are sanctioned, encouraged, and nowadays emboldened to commit despicable acts against our warriors, their families, and their extended communities.

Martial monsters--the JAGs and detective agents assigned by military royalty--exploit targets whose psychological complexions and makeups are marked by lower levels of maturity, sophistication, education, and intelligence.

Special agents like Jim Connolly (aggressively profiled on these JAG HUNTER pages regarding the Camp Pendleton Eight series of courts-martial) mentally torture our kids during interrogation sessions like those American POWs suffered during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. Devious and sinister JAGs and special agents deprive those they accuse, their comrades, and their families of the freedom to speak the truth. Congressmen and commanders play with their constituents and men by inoculating them with false hope and extraordinary fear. These terrible people inject terror, suspicions of one another, doubts, and mistrust.

Men and women like Jim Connolly threatened obstruction in one Marine seeking U.S. citizenship.

Pernicious men and women like Jim Connolly threatened the kind of repercussions and violence attendant to accusations of pedophilia, child-porn, statuary rape (real or not in any case) that had nothing to do with the events in question.

Innuendo tore combat units and families apart. Mom and dads wondered if they knew their boy. Siblings wondered if they knew each other. Privates were forced to lie about their sergeants while the officers betrayed and lied about their men.

This is how the restructured courts-martial PSYOP works. It is the ultimate expression of Executive will. The will of the commander in chief.

The congressmen and commanders are more than willing to build and advance ghost stories about the lowly infantryman, to protect and shield themselves, and to keep secret from you--the American body politic--the orders being issued to men like Hutchins and Girouard.

Courts-martial PSYOPs facilitated martial injunctions guarding against disclosure or compromise of ground combat operations overseas.

Recent and alarming comments uttered by military politicos close more public cases are particularly clear and instructive explaining how courts-martial are so exceptionally useful in the exploitation of U.S. servicemen.

David Brahms, pointing at the congressmen, sardonically commented: "Who cares about these men?" Brahms continued: These soldiers and Marines are insignificant...no one can find where these men live on a map of the U.S."

John Kivlan flaunting his prior knowledge of conviction, and who later sat in the hearing room, told Sergeant Hutchins' parents that no one was going to uncover the corruption. Their son was going to a military prison innocent or not. Pay attention to the sentencing phase.

Jonathan Griswold, when petitioned to challenge Ray Girouard's court-martial (among others) declined in this candid response: "Who wants to take on the DOD?"

David Brahms is a retired one-star brigadier general and former Judge Advocate, Marines.

Kivlan is the staff attorney to Representative Bill Delahunt.

Griswold is the national security advisor to Congressman John Duncan.

It's worth noting that Brahms was the paid civilian defense counsel to Marine Lance Corporal Robert Pennington. Brahms was (and remains) a full participant in the travesties described above. David Brahms is to Lcpl. Pennington as Rich Brannon is to Sgt. Hutchins, as Anita Gorecki is to SSgt. Ray Girouard. Each of the defense attorneys robbed their clients, their families, and their communities by cooperating with and advancing the government's ghost cover stories.

The cover stories were easy to dismantle. Military detectives and unreliable witnesses and evidence were ripe for impeachment. Competent and concerned--honest and honorable defense teams and individual counselors could have extracted from the infantry COs information regarding the ROE and actual scheme of operations for the urban street war fight. Under defense questioning the infantry commanders could have narrated in intimate detail the routine nature of raid and ambush carried out in watch-bill rotation before and after those days in question. The COs could have discussed ROE orders to kill all MAMs, to patrol and engage any suspicious vehicle or structure. They could have revealed the existence of the high-value insurgents hit list and the deployment of "Hunter-Killer" teams to reduce the number of MAMs on that list, or to shoot on sight those insurgents found in the act of planting improvised explosive devices.

Cowardly lion commanders instead crafted and advanced elaborate "war crimes" cover stories pointing to their men as rogue soldiers or Marines gone off the reservation. The infantry COs dishonored themselves by providing cover for higher ranking officers and congressmen (the command racketeers). The commanding officers in monstrous acts of betrayal, turned their backs leaving their men for dead--buried alive in the DOD catacombs.

Corrupt and complicit defense teams colluded with each other and with the government abandoning our warriors in service to their own self-aggrandizement, self-promotion, and self interests.

Congressmen and commanders nowadays are like leaky diapers. They can't be trusted and must be frequently changed for the same reasons.

America does not plant the seed of democracy on foreign shores--in this Great Moral Enterprise--by burying innocent soldiers and Marines alive at home as political prisoners.

Congressmen and commanders fail to extend or extol the virtues of Freedom overseas by destroying the lives and homes of innocent people!

The children are watching!

As so many others are watching.

Here endth the lesson.

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE INNOCENT MAN!

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“ROE” Rules of Endangerment:

The “new manipulated” guideline for the military leadership to abandon their men and women in uniform while maintaining their place in history.

Don and All:

As promised, I have taken the time to title and name these writings. Documents that have come into our possession are filling in all blanks bringing this entire masquerade into perspective.

These missing pieces of information uncovers the evidence that the Government and all defense councils were not allowed or it was decided that it could not be used in the defense of these Marines and Soldiers.

What is revealing in the most basic thoughts are within itself criminal acts. The purpose was to keep the truth of operations that was put into place away from the media and the American people. If Laurence Hutchins III, Sgt. U.S.M.C. is guilty of anything, he is guilty of telling the truth! We have the combat operations logs and memos of the real everyday life of true “Warriors. The biggest shame is that none of this information was allowed in these trials as provided by the Constitution of the United States on behalf of these Marines. The Constitution takes precedence over the UCMJ and sets the standard as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The misinformation that has been published by the main stream media and most especially Mr. Mark Walker of the North County Times concerning the Pendleton 8 in particular has set a new standard of entertainment. These folks want to keep the aura of so called “war crimes” going in order to sell themselves and their papers for self-aggrandizement. They know the truth! We also have documents and transcripts of these cases which these entities refused or were told that it could not be printed setting the stage to work with the government and NCIS, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Either way they were not competent to have taken on the task. Thereby their own involvement and writings have become part of the cover up.

Lt. Phan in the beginning of the “Ronin” diaries writes: “ My guy’s call me Ronin. I earned this call sign a while back during our work up in preparation for our deployment to Iraq. I guess the name signifies how stubborn I am some times or how I like to do things a little differently from the rest of my peers. Our Co. is Kilo Company 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, call sign Samurai. This is a memoir of my experience in Iraq shared with my guy’s, my boy’s, my Marines. This is our story.” We are willing to bet at this point in time that the Lieutenant could not ever have imagined the story of deceit and abandonment that would follow with the help of the media and the government has brought to them. From his writings one would think when given the chance to have honor and speak the truth that he would do so for the men who would have followed him off the edge of the earth in a moments notice. In hindsight, who could hold him responsible when his senior leadership abandoned him. It is with disbelief what was and wasn’t done in these courts- martial. The documents are the work product of the investigation by NCIS and were not allowed to come out in the defense of the very Marines that were being accused of “War Crimes” coincidence not possible. The true story and smoking gun of these documents are the exposition of a well orchestrated play and the work product by those who want to conceal what it takes for today’s warrior to meet mission standards and success with minimal risk to them in their environment. The press with its appetite for “war crimes” and news that works well in their environment as well as their bias of their opinion of war were the easiest tools for the government to use in order to keep these sanctioned activities quiet. All that was needed to convict and meet the press standards was to continue to give them “ meat”. It’s that easy in this one-sided black opp’s of secrecy. Thank God the media of today was not on scene or embedded during the second World War. Can you just imagine what would have been reported about the operations on Iwo and the hero’s and legends that make up the Corps history?

The release of information on the “JAG HUNTER” on Thursday speaks of the days and dates of this so-called incident and supposed crime. There is no crime when following orders. Lt. Phan’s own notes reveal how they had to set and execute an ambush. But more importantly, his combat ledger also reveals the order of the day that actually there had been an ongoing patrol from April 25th. In these “Frag” orders that are given prior to moving to the objectives are discussed and understood by the NCO’s in command of the patrols. This information and or notes would be in the Lt, Phan’s thumb drive and laptop. The documents that are quoted are derived from his daily diary that he maintained with meticulous detail. This brings me to the next point, The Co. CO. Capt. Correa. (Now Maj.)

This is what some would call the “BOSS”. Funny thing, he is some-ones “boss” but even he answers to and operates with orders from his “BOSS” which in turn goes up the chain of “COMMAND” and command answers to there perspective “BOSSES”. In the service there is a chain of command but most importantly a chain of “responsibility and accountability”. I will now add another quote from the “RONNIN” Diaries.

“Captain Corria, the commanding Officer of Kilo Company (my Boss) came out of the field earlier this morning. He only comes out of the field for his command and staff meetings with the B.C. (Battalion Commander) on Wednesday nights. I link up with them to get the latest updates on the [removed] and get the “FRAG” order (Fragmentary orders) before I head out tonight. We’re starting a new rotation, eight days out, four day’s back (It was six and three before) 1st platoon [removed] will stay out an extra day and 2nd platoon [removed] will get an extra day off. I wasn’t exactly thrilled about this, but my offer to relieve 1 was denied”

This is written to show why there was never a murder and why this has been done to these very men in uniform this for reasons of secrecy. Marines do not operate as an individual they operate as a team. This means no one has the rare moment to conduct an operation of this scale in the environment they were operating in with no one knowing where they were!!! One watches the other. These squads work together and operate on a daily basis under the leadership and the direction of the folks discussed above and have to work in this way for basic survival. This information comes from an unimpeachable source and shows this to be the standard on any mission.

Sgt Laurence Hutchins and his squad were sent out on this patrol to continue what has now been made public and known as hunter killer patrols or under Gen. Mattis “Combat Hunter Teams.” This ROE existed in real time to estimate its effectiveness long before the public relations officers from camp Pendleton ever released the information in Mark Walkers article of the North County Times direct from the Marines who were doing this OJT (On The Job Training) and following the orders given by their “BOSS”. While doing these missions (that had to exist for the forward movement of operations) they had targets that were called (HVI) “High Value Insurgents” and the mission statement was not just to capture but kill. Some PC folks will not like what is being written here. For those I would ask would you be willing to trade places? We think not!

The night of this combat action was no different from any that had been repeatedly done for months. What is different is that it has received media attention and the media demanded instant justice as has been their battle cry for months. Note also that Lt. Phan was what is called a “pay agent” This means when they entered houses in the middle of the night to commandeer for operations that if any damage or destruction of the premises or death, Lt. Phan had an open check book to pay for more secrecy along with a humble we’re sorry. Yes, pay for silence. Understand this is also routine procedure and was also part of the mission statements. Now, how many pay agents do you think exist in two country’s right now?

The reason we have had so much trouble with figuring out what went on from the investigation is that there never was an investigation. The so-called investigation was intimidation and stories plotted by once again NCIS with direction from Washington and the Secretary of the Navy. The DOD was directing this escapade with the expertise of a surgeon with full knowledge from 1600 Penn. Ave. The current administration with the help of Congressman Murtha prevented the truth from ever rising to the surface.

We can tell you first hand what it has been like to gain the ears of Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the isle. These current bantering’s by all three candidates for election to the highest office is also a charade. EVERYONE in Washington knows the truth but they do not know how to explain it.

So in closing some thoughts. Gen. Mattis made a statement in a private conversation that if we could prove an order was given or eluded too………. Then Larry should be set free.

Here is the answer: Laurence Hutchins III was given orders by his direct OIC (Officer in charge) Lt. Phan to go to this location for a HVI (High Value Insurgent). He was briefed with the frag orders given that night or prior to the description and orders to locate and kill a certain individual. Whether the right person was targeted is not the issue. The orders were given and they were followed by a good group of Marines who had done the same many times before. These documents speak for themselves. Will he stand by his AAR? I can’t speak for him. Sgt. Hutchins has been locked away now for almost eight months after his trial without discussion. We can tell you that we have spoken to folks who have talked to him and he has confirmed the information in the documents. The documents that we have been sent by a source that is impeachable and is written by the Governments own hand. I don’t think he will stand by his AAR (after action report). He no longer needs to be loyal to those who have most certainly been disloyal to him, either to Lt. Phan, the Corps or those running the Corps.

We started writing this information two days ago. We have been interrupted by news on a daily basis from many veterans who have read the truth.

To those Congressmen and folks in Washington, especially Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Kerry… you are all from this young Marines state; and, Mr. Delahunt is his representative in the 10th district. You have had your staff involved in the courts-martial and he has had personal knowledge of. what has been written several times. We have spoken to his staff and they all know what the truth is and have not moved forward on any of this information or held anyone accountable for wrongfully putting this young Marine in the political dungeon he now finds himself in. Politics are over he should be set free immediately.

I was asked last night by a family directly involved in this terrible instance of injustice. The question was.. Does it matter to me if we help to show the truth and it disgraces the Marine Corps.

My answer: We have been reminded several times over the last many months that we have all taken an oath. This includes those who serve in both houses. Our oaths like many others before and after me were also asked to swear to the Corps not to just protect the Constitution and what we stand for but also our duty to the Marine Corps. This is what we are doing with Marine Vets all over the country. This injustice does not represent the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps will carry on long after we are all gone. What it does represent is the disgrace of those in command positions. In the Corps, for those who have not had the pleasure of earning a title, an individual does not represent anything. If someone was to call you and individual while in uniform you knew you had been caught in the wrong and there was no answer for the proclamation. These individuals in command are directly responsible not only for what is uncovered through their mismanagement but are indirectly responsible for feeding those entities that are protesting all around the country. They have brought a shame that never should have existed in the first place when all that was needed was to tell the truth and stand up for the Marines in uniform and their families who support them and also make up the Marine Corps.

The leadership of the corps is just that and in it you have decent and indecent folks. At this particular time there seems to be some people who have committed some errors in judgment and in their actions you will find that it reflects on them and them only.

So, in ending, there is still time for honor. We know our fighting men and women have it and we know it lives and breathes well in the junior ranks. We wait to see what the leadership is made off and how far they are willing to go and how bad they are willing to disgrace the things they control. The Marine Corps will survive… too many stories of achievements; too many heroes past and present and in the future…this is the Marine Corps. Those at the top control there own destiny not the Corps.

There have been a number of petitions circulating that folks have sent around signed in Sgt. Hutchins behalf. We are sending ours:

To: Lt.Gen. Helland:

Now is the time to set Sgt. Larry Hutchins free. We know through Haditha and the investigating body involved in Hamdania that no crimes have or ever were committed. These marines are Marines following the history of the Corps and have followed the “ROE” to the letter that has been set in place by the CIC. The documentation that is being released into the hands of veterans around the country will become public property where at this time it belongs. It will show all that has been withheld in the defense of true Warriors that you and the politicians have sent to war. It shows the deceit and abandonment by their leadership at the highest levels and reveals to these young warriors that their enemy is not always in front of them. It lurks behind, masked as political correctness, and men running a military like a corporation. The two do not mix. You are all historians. These families and Marines and Soldiers have paid a dear price…once to leave for battle and once the battle you put upon them. Let Larry out. Restore his dignity and the pain that this has caused all the families and replace their entire honor by telling the truth and abiding by the truth. This needs to be done today.

These documents do show that the Emperor has no clothes!

Respectfully,
/s/
Tim Harrington

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POSTINGS FROM THE SWEETWATER LIBRARY

(SIXTH IN A SERIES)

RONIN'S MEMOS

(Tim and Mary Harrington, George Reilly co-contributors)

"No one knows the meaning of innocence except those who are!"

-Unknown

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"Convince your colonies that you are able,

and not afraid to control them,

and depend upon it,

obedience will be the result of

your deliberations."

Lord North in a speech to the English Parliment before Parliment's 1774

passage of the Quartering Act and other Coercive Acts

American colonists condemened as the "Intolerable Acts."

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JAG HUNTER HERE:

Preamble - Just last evening Tim and Mary Harrington and myself were told, while putting the final flourishes to this posting, our importunities will be ignored, we're wasting our time. Supremely powerful military governors know all of what's to be exposed here (it's common knowledge), nothing's going to change (the Constitution is old news), it's just the way things are, and Larry Hutchins and Ray Girouard are going to stay locked up as innocents (with all the others)...move along, move on, there's nothing here to see.

Then the following arrogant taunts were given voice: Whatta ya goin' to do about it! And why are we surprised!

Lord North's comments are quoted above because they chillingly proclaim what America's military politicians are doing to us--American citizens here at home. But now--speaking personally--having suffered for almost twenty years the insolence, haughtiness, audacity, arrogance, and pride first from John Bitoff, then most recently David Brahms, Jim Mattis, I must tell you Lord North's words starkly depict what America's professional criminals holding high command are doing to peoples worldwide without fear of criminal consequence.

Command racketeers--from Commander in Chief Bush down the chain of command--are so ashamed, so fearful about their personal fates should America's populace be made aware of and then scrutinize their scheme of military operations their willing to bury alive innocent servicemen (our sons and daughters, our comrades) to enrich, shield and save themselves.

I'm not concerned here with questions swirling about the rightness or wrongness of the tactics our troops employ to seek out, locate, engage, and destroy immoral insurgent street fighters who refuse to wear uniforms and threaten the lives of those U.S. servicemen every moment of every day.

I am instead outraged beyond description that America's senior commanders are capable and willing to imprison innocent U.S. servicemen to quell or altogether block discussion and debate of politically sensitive military adventures if only to protect their careers and themselves from perceived political danger.

I'll do my best to communicate plainly and clearly. I singularly accept in advance all responsibility by any failure to do so.

With that I pass to you, the reader, the taunts of Navy Rear Admiral John Bitoff and Marine Corps Brigadier General David Brahms taunts.

As you absorb these words, are you surprised?

And whatta goin' to do about it when you're done?

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Marine Sergeant Lawrence G. Hutchins' squad mission that night and early morning (25/26 April 2006) was to set up an ambush in the vicinity of checkpoint 203. This day was just like yesterday, and would be just like tomorrow. Higher command were detailing Hutchins' men with other Marine infantry units to patrol, raid, and ambush in a watch bill like rotation each day, every day, months without end.

Hutchins and his men would come to be known as the Camp Pendleton Eight.

Sgt. Hutchins' team stepped out at 1700 hours for their twelve-hour ambush operation en route to a palm grove previously used as a patrol base. This position offered good concealment and decent cover but Hutchins could not make out the road ahead even using his night vision goggles. It was too dark.

Hutchins moved his men closer to the road at about 2200 hours sacrificing cover in exchange for a more optimal field of view. The sergeant pushed Corporals Thomas and Magincalda, Lance Corporal Jackson and Private First Class Jodka in to the tall grass about 70 meters north of his position. Lance Corporals Pennington and Shumate and Navy Third Class Petty Officer--Hospitalman Corpsman Bacos were with Hutchins next to a tree.

"It appeared to be a quiet night with no vehicle or personnel traffic until 0238 hours on the 26th."

"At 0238 Lcpl. Shumate spotted movement on the east side [of the road]. Hutchins immediately reported this to KILO TWO." Before KILO TWO could get the question out of his mouth regarding a shovel, Hutchins' spotted the shovel with the stranger insurgent and ordered engagement in accordance with his rules of engagement for an ambush.

"We initiated the ambush with M16 fire...volleyed with my two SAWs [squad automatic weapons]. A moment later we began to take AK47 fire..."

HM3 Bacos pronounced the stranger dead at the scene after the shooting stopped. The QRF [quick response force] arrived soon after to retrieve the insurgents body. Hutchins' squad accompanied the QRF to link up with RAZRO SIX.

This narrative, taken directly from Larry's combat action report, has never before been publicly reported. A Navy doctor's autopsy examination narration (released just days ago) is completely consistent with Sgt. Hutchins' official written submission dated 26 April 2006. No one was ever able to identify the dead insurgent stranger.

Three weeks after the Hutchins' ambush, on 9 May 2006, Army Staff Sergeant (Ranger) Raymond L. Girouard led another infantry unit into combat against a known enemy hard target near Hutchins' area of operations. Ray's operation was a larger, daylight airborne assault with the objective to wipe out a snake pit terrorist training camp.

In the days leading up to the training camp raid Staff Sergeant Girouard and his men were told they were going on a "suicide mission" against a hard target fortress providing cover to a large, well armed enemy.

Girouard and Hutchins' missions were grandly successful. In reward and recognition of their bravery, gallantry, intrepidity and valor in battle Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins was sentenced to 15-years in a military dungeon. Army Ranger Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard was awarded 10-years. Their men received greater or lesser punishments.

After action reports, computer ledgers, logs, and records with recorded personal accounts revealed in the past two weeks allied with previously published public reports regarding ongoing U.S. military operations and planning shed bright for the first time upon politically sensitive, highly controversial, newly developed urban warfare combat tactics and intelligence gathering methods.

The tactics Sergeants Girouard and Hutchins rehearsed in real world, real time environments (undergoing trial and error research and development 2006, now adopted as standard operating procedure) are the brain-child of Marine four-star General James Mattis in association with companies of other Marine and Army flag officers.

Neither Hutchins or Girouard were told, nor did they realize they were field-testing the "Warrior Monk's" (General Mattis' nom de guerre) scheme of urban street-fighting. Neither did either sergeant apprehend their most dangerous enemy was behind them, a threat soon manifested in betrayal at the hands of their own senior officers.

Negative and stereotypical reports were already flooding the airwaves thanks to those segments of the press corps and Congress who hate the military. Abu Ghraib and Pat Tillman were stories of grand political theatre. General Mattis (and his cohorts), frightened by the withering congressional and media scrutiny they'd surely suffer, developed a public relations counter-offensive to deflate and defeat a foreseeable runaway, uncontrollable, frenetic public assault should Mattis' urban warfare plan be exposed.

Mattis' public relations counter-assault demanded the ritual sacrifice of Girouad, Hutchins, and any other expendable warrior who could (unknowingly) take a bullet in service to what Mattis regarded a cause transcendent to constitutional protections of life and liberty. Girouard and Hutchins and their men were sent to military prison camps, innocent all, to change the subject and divert and deflect attention in anticipation of what Mattis feared was a potential leak regarding his supremely controversial and politically explosive urban war-fighting methods.

Exploiting the facility of courts-martial, devious and clever public affairs officers, judge advocates, military detectives, and command racketeers--under orders from Commander in Chief Bush and General Mattis and his minions--first cobble together, then perfectly crafted fictional cover stories of war crimes committed by errant and inept Soldiers and Marines.

Innocent infantrymen and mud-Marines were charged and chained like animals while the bogus cover stories were leaked to hyper-active media personalities and blabber-mouth congressmen. Courts-martial were announced and docketed. Press conferences gave voice to the make believe criminal accusations. A million dollar media center was designed and constructed. The flames of the funeral pyre grew to consume innocent grunts while hypnotized media moths (Mattis' moths) drew near. Mattis' last-ditch media/congressional counter offensive worked like a charm as Hutchins and Girouard were burned at the stake as the mouths of the easily manipulated opened wide and watched in wonderment.

(Note: For more on the efficacious use of cover-stories see Ed Offley's recently published expose--SCORPION DOWN--regarding the charade perpetrated to prevent news of the communist-Russian attack and sinking of a U.S. submarine.)

Mattis' diversion works flawlessly to this moment. Distracted from the real-world of inter-city combat, press professionals and cozy congressman gravitate to warm hearing rooms and klieg lights lulled by duplicitious military royalty. There, smooth generals and PAOs assure their gullible audiences, those stuck on stupid, that the few ugly details of street fighting--what Mattis and his merry men call "war crimes"--are (were) the unavoidable results and consequences of reckless and incompetent Soldiers/Marines that beneficient and just commanding officers are more than capable of punishing.

The cover stories are swallowed whole.

But from combat after action reports, combat journals, and log books, and intelligence reports there emerges the real scope and operation of our brave warriors. There exist graphic accounts depicting the emotionally charged stark reality regarding CINC Bush's approved and ordered rules of engagement (ROE) for urban combat operatons against terrorists insurgents in the badlands.

But none of these reports were admissible (in fact the information was banned outright) at courts-martial to defend innocent warriors.

Teresly, CINC Bush's ROE (authored by the Warrior Monk) authorizes Army and Marine infantrymen to "get the job done." Marine Lieutenant Nathan Phan (call sign "RONIN") instructs and informs us that "what is necessary" for American gound troops to complete their assigned missions routinely causes "unnecessary suffering" for Iraqi civilians.

Here is a portion of what Lt. Phan recounts: "Our company's area of operation [AO] is the province of [deleted] about a 20x30 square kilometer piece of real estate. The city of Falluja can fit over twenty times in our AO...[province deleted] is a hotbed of arms smugglers, dealers, and black market traffickers, not to mention fanatical insurgents."

"So in order to establish security and stability in this...region, we are forced to move around constantly. Since [province deleted] is mostly flat irrigated farmland, there is no covered and concealed position to establish patrol bases. So the only practical alternative is to take a [civilian] house for a few days."

"I'm what they call a Paying Agent. It means I'm authorized [by CINC Bush's ROE] to reimburse Iraqi civilians with U.S. government dollars as restititution in the event we damage their personal property or cause unnecessary grief."

"This tends to happen a lot."

"We conduct raids in the dead of night, kick families out of their homes and take over, sometimes for a few hours, usually for a few days. We do this on a regular basis."

"We use the house as a patrol base, a safe haven for Marines, to conduct operations. Then pay the homeowner for 'wear and tear' for their homes. It's either this or put my Marines in the open, in Harm's Way, exposed to indirect fires and snipers."

"Screw the civilians."

"This is why I'm a Paying Agent. So I sign for my U.S. government cash and go on my way."

CINC Bush knows all this as do uncounted generals and admirals (flag officers).

Our commanders don't want you, the public, to know.

Ergo: Invented cover stories and counterfit courts-martial of innocent warriors.

I'm not going to recount here how a court-martial is used to routinely punish the innocent. Nor am I going to recount the fictions that were created around Hutchins, Girouard, and their men.

I will tell you this: Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent James H. Connolly dug up a stranger in Iraq. Then Connolly (with his team of NCIS goons) wrote a ghost story about how Sgt. Hutchins and his men murdered a man no one was ever able to identify.

The autopsy report (now revealed) was blocked from use in Sgt. Hutchin's defense. So was every other physical piece of exculpatory evidence.

You've already read in Larry's own words what happened on the night/morning of 25-26 April 2006. Larry's was under orders that day to kill enemy insurgents in ambush.

Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard was under the same orders issued by Black Hawk Down's Army Colonel Michael Steel in May. Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID) detectives didn't bother with autopsies in Ray's circumstance. The bodies, never identified, were collected up by Army personnel and allowed to disappear.

Raids and ambushes in the target-rich Iraqi urban environs are so frequent, so necessary, and time sensitive that infantry units are rotated hourly, daily, in a month-to-month schedule that reads like a watchbill.

RONIN logs: "I get to Camp [deleted] and find my guys busy preparing to push out to the field."

Sounding just like Col. Steel in his pre-battle exhortations (captured on DVD, suppressed from public view and denied as exculpatory evidence in defense of Ray Girouard during his March 2007 court-martial) RONIN tells us: "Believe it or not, I love the field. It's where Marines get to really be Marines. It's the reason why so many of my guys joined the Corps. To go out in the 'bush' look for the enemy, kill him and come back to tell stories about it. It's where Marines build camaraderie and esprit de corps.

It's where I really get to know my guys. Most importantly, it's where I get to do my job (my emphasis), conduct counterinsurgency operations in order to destroy the enemy and establish stability. As a bonus, in the field, time goes by a hell of a lot faster than being in the rear."

This is the world of the urban combat infantryman and mud-Marine that no warrior is allowed to speak about publicly in a politically charged, politically correct atmosphere where lurks military-hating segments of the media and congress ready to cannibalise our own troops.

The betrayal.

America's military politicians are so afraid to explain and display to regular citizens the violence that is the soul of modern day urban combat. So they selectively pick isolated events, magnify them out of context and proportion, wrongly (but intentionally) name them war crimes, and then rob innocent warriors (and their immediate families) of their liberty and lives.

The scheme of maneuver in urban street fighting--now adopted as standard operating procedure--is precisely as narrated above by the brave men who are there! We are targeting all military aged males (MAMs--a euphanism to describe all males capable of inflicting injury on U.S. troops). Infantry units just like Hutchins' and Girouard's are deployed hourly in "HUNTER-KILLER TEAMS" to seek out, engage, and destroy enemy personnel and equipment. Intelligence is collected in every way possible.

But you're not to know any of this.

Instead, random, elaborate, and unbelievable cover stories are fabricated and crafted, built around innocent warriors like Hutchins and Girouard to divert attention away from the brutal reality of urban, insurgent, terrorist street fighting.

Courts-martial operations discussed and exposed on these JAG HUNTER pages for almost six years are known to you as prefect instruments in the advancement of the criminal adventures of corrupt military detectives making work for corrupt JAGs to effectively shield and protect the command racketeers.

Courts-martial are not courts. Juries don't wear uniforms. Courts-martial don't allow a defendant to confront an accuser. Innocent acts are regularly criminalized. Forced confessions are a staple, common place and encouraged. Exculpatory evidence is withheld or destroyed as a matter of course. Information impeaching the government's case is made to disapppear. Summary judgments by professional criminals in command is standard operating procedure.

None (and so much more) of information presented here--always available and now released--was allowed for use in the defense of any infantryman in any of the hundreds of courts-martial so far suffered by U.S. ground combat troops.

Warriors are ordered to military catacombs to waste away until they're forgotten.

Girouard and Hutchins never stood a chance.

The generals know both men did exactly what they were ordered to do!

Mean while, America's flag officers are conducting raids and ambushes in the dead of night against U.S. citizens stateside destroying families and homes on a regular basis.

Unfortunately for families of Hutchins and Girouard (and all the rest) there's no "Paying Agent" authorized to reinburse U.S. citizens with U.S. government dollars as restitution for the unnecessary and wanton damage.

Girouard and Hutchins and their men (with so many others) are wasting away in military dungeons--innocent men all!

Screw the sergeants!

Screw the civilians!

Pin medals on the generals!

Here endth the lesson.

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!

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