NCIS AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY TO OUR U.S. MARINES:

YOU ARE EXPENDABLE!!

by Walt Fitzpatrick and Tim Harrington (“Flight line”)

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Tim Harrington and I received word within the past few hours that Rich Brannon, lead defense attorney to Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins, will rest his defense this morning at 9:00 a.m. PDT (0900 hours local Camp Pendleton). Hearing room observers report Brannon and his defense team have examined only Nathan Phan and Melson Bacos.

Tim and I have been frantic in our attempts to intervene in the court-martial getting word to Sgt. Hutchins that Rich Brannon is setting up Hutchins for a fall. James Connolly will not be recalled to the stand (as Tim and I are told) as this posting is published. Advising Brannon is John Kivlan, staff attorney to William Delahunt (D-10th MA.). Delahunt is Sgt. Hutchins' federal representative. Both Kivlan and Delahunt are working under the advice of Alan Dershowitz (previously reported in The JAG HUNTER). Kivlan is actually present at the Hutchins court-martial, sitting directly behind the defense table, and regularly consulting with Brannon and Hutchins' assigned military defense counsel during recesses.

In review of press reports regarding development in the Camp Pendleton Eight series of courts-martial, Tim and I have discerned James Connolly and his NCIS investigation team planted a fictional story about the death of Awad, and have successfully advanced this fantasy with the full criminal complicity and knowledge of Lt. James Mattis, Mattis' staff JAG Lt. Col. Riggs, other senior Marine Corps officials, Bill Delahunt, John Kivlan, and Al Dershowitz (recall the the court-martial of Staff Sgt. Raymond Girouard).

NOT RECALLING CONNOLLY TO THE STAND

Rich Brannon is about to willfully forfeit on an opportunity to publicly undue all eight courts-martial. Not calling Jim Connolly as a defense witness in this case is like Anita Gorecki not calling Army Colonel Michael Steele in the SSgt. Ray Girouard military ceremony. The Lootenant Culpepper defense is being played out (predictably) before our very eyes.

James H. Connolly is a liar. His theory of the 26 April 2006 combat events in Hamdania, Iraq is a total fiction. Connolly’s accusations against the Camp Pendleton Eight are completely false. And the Naval Criminal Investigative Service supervisory special agent and companion special agents have yet to produce a single shred of physical evidence, nor any record (chain-of-custody) that any evidence was ever collected. Agents working under Connolly are liars as well as Connolly.

Recalling the first five of the Camp Pendleton Eight cases concluded by way of government coerced deals—horse-trading bargains wherein sweetheart sentences were offered up for suborned, perjurious testimony—it’s worth taking note of emerging information from the contested military ceremonies over the past two weeks (as well as from earlier Article 32 hearings, plea-deal hearings, and press reports).

Ø James H. Connolly is a known and reported federal felon. Connolly is the supervisory Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special agent in charge of the investigation of all eight servicemen now famously known as the Camp Pendleton Eight. Connolly is charged with protecting the practice of forced and coerced confessions that Connolly now himself exploits in all eight cases regarding Hamdania, Iraq.[1]

Ø Connolly’s NCIS team forced incompetent confessions form the only basis in the case against the CP8 Marines (no physical evidence exists).

Ø Connolly and his NCIS team planted the identity and name of 52-year old Hashim Ibrahim Awad into their reckless, incompetent, and politically motivated work (think Mike Nifong and the Duke Lacrosse team rape cases). Connolly even collected DNA samples. Yet, today, no person alive can verify Connolly's identification. Every mention of Awad's name after Connolly's construct is merely a repetition of Connolly's big lie.

Ø Physical evidence reported to exist has either been destroyed (Lt. Phan's computer records) or is being concealed (Connolly's "fliers," Connolly's DNA samples, unmanned airborne vehicle camera footage, and DNA autopsy lab reports).

Ø Connolly perjured himself in the Corporal Trent Thomas court-martial.[2]

Ø NCIS officials are withholding exculpatory evidence from the defense teams (citations below).

Ø Connolly did not read the Marines their Miranda protections prior to initial questioning.

Ø The Marines repeatedly requested, and Connolly repeatedly denied, attorney representation during NCIS interrogations.

Ø NCIS medieval interrogation techniques were employed. Questioning was conducted immediately after the men had returned from a battlefield patrol, was conducted for upwards of 14-hours without “head-calls” (bathroom breaks), and in the stifling Iraqi heat. The Gulag-like inquisitions were neither video nor audio recorded.

Ø Connolly’s NCIS goons found no physical evidence. Connolly is unable to produce the two DNA samples Connolly reported under oath he collected. No chain-of-custody is in evidence. Marine “Prosecutors called James Connolly, the lead investigator who has 19 years experience with [the NCIS], who said that he [Connolly] took samples from one of the alleged victims (sic), as well as from a pair of pants seized from Hutchins, the squad leader.”

Ø No one knows the identity of the alleged “victim” who first misidentified as Hashim Ibrahim Awad, was reduced to an “unknown Iraqi male.” Although medical experts from Dover AFB conducted an autopsy on a headless cadaver, no DNA was matched in support of a positive identification. Outside observers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how anyone even knows the sex.

Ø Sgt. Hutchins is charged with firing three “dead-check” head shots. How can that charge possibly be advanced considering the exhumed corpse reported returned to Dover for autopsy was severely decomposed and decapitated? No photos were taken.

Ø There is no corpse . It’s reported a copse was exhumed, examined, and returned to Iraq for reburial, but there’s no independent confirmation any of this occurred.

Ø An autopsy was conducted, but upon whom? Defense team forensic pathologists were denied access to the corpse for independent autopsy scrutiny. No pictures were taken. The complete autopsy report remains concealed. No DNA was recovered nor matched at least two DNA samples S/A Connolly stated under oath he obtained.

Ø Connolly once testified "arrogant" Marines distributed fliers in and around Hamdania two days after (28 or 29 April 2006) the initial combat that announced, in Arabic, AWAD had been killed caught trying to plant an explosive device. Connolly planted this story and it's a lie. Connolly's "flier" are missing.

Ø Witness intimidation tactics are ubiquitous (threats of charging perjury against Marines at Lt. Phan's Article 32 hearing, and yesterday as voiced by Lt. Col. John Baker in threatening HM3 Bacos).

Ø Earlier reports of Awad’s “relatives” reporting war-crimes committed by our Marines are completely undone. There are no relatives. There are no witnesses. There are no accusers.

Ø Connolly can be queried regarding problems found in the timeline.

Ø Lance Corporal Robert Pennington narrated during the ongoing Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins’ court-martial that Connolly’s NCIS henchmen commanded Pennington three times to rewrite his “statement” until it satisfactorily conformed to the NCIS’s fantasy theory of the war-crime.

Ø Jackson and Jodka have testified (during the Hutchins’ court-martial) that Connolly’s NCIS team forced their written statements and actually personally authored parts of the Marines’ written narrative.

Ø Marines and at least one JAG participated in the destruction of (then) Second Lieutenant Nathan Phan’s computer records. In a press release, Phan’s defense team decried the seizure and destruction of Phan’s thumb (flash) drive containing operating orders, after action reports, insurgent identity lists, and operational notes and details.

Ø Photographic evidence is compromised. Pictures used to force plea deals are different from government displayed photos during the Trent Thomas hearing.

Ø Marine intelligence experts quietly report their forensic analysis supports the Marines’ complete innocence. Classified information proves the Camp Pendleton Eight acted fully within the laws of land warfare, and their rules of engagement.

Ø Lcpl. Robert Pennington is caught in numerous testimonial contradictions. (See endnote 2)

Ø Previously leaked NCIS reports are proven false. No one knows yet who leaked the NCIS investigative work product.

Ø Unmanned airborne vehicle camera footage cleared all eight men of any wrongdoing. That UAV film footage is being withheld from public view.

Ø Connolly planted an unsubstantiated story regarding the UAV footage that Sgt. Hutchins and his squad were able to disguise ground activities by “tricking” the drone. The UAV film footage is not reported seized by NCIS agents as evidence.

Ø Defense teams were denied full access to the Hamdania urban area to conduct an independent and comprehensive investigation regarding accusations made against the Camp Pendleton Eight. Our government maintained Hamdania was too hostile and investigators could not be properly protected.

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient men!!

References:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/02/

http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/2007/06/lootenant-culpeppers-defense-court.html

http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/2007/07/james-connollys-ncis-team-rigged-all.html

http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/2007/07/ncis-special-agent-james-connolly.html

http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/2007/07/marine-says-james-h.html

http://www.usmc.mil/lapa/Iraq/Hamdania/Hamdania-Timeline.htm

http://www.usmc.mil./lapa/iraq-investigations.htm

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/13/news/top_stories21

http://www.10news.com/print/13674156/detail.htm

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/02/08/news/top_stories/1_0

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http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_9503.shtml

http://www.house.gov/delahunt/hutchins.shtml

http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51329

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/28/news/top_stories/01_

http://www.house.gov/delahunt/hutchins0228.html

http://www.wired.com/print/politics/security/news/2007/03/UAV

http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/search?q=for+immediate+release

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[1] In a criminal complaint filed with the FBI, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and NCIS.

[2] As reported by court-martial observers.

CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT UPDATE
(and Happy Birthday to Army Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymoun Girouard!!)

Trial starts Monday - Wicked Local Plymouth - News

"...the government was unable to prove the victim’s identity and could not even use his name in the closing stages of the trial," Harrington said.

Harrington is part of a group of former Marines who believe that flaws in the military justice system allowed investigators to manipulate the probe into the killing.

JAG HUNTER HERE:

Reporter Rich Harbert only scratches the surface regarding what JAG HUNTER Tim Harrington disclosed.

Tim has worked relentlessly on the side of U.S. Marines in their running gun-battle with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

NCIS SPECIAL AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY IS NAMED HERE, ONCE MORE, AS A PARTICIPATING FELON IN THIS AND OTHER CONTEMPORANEOUS LONG-RUNNING CRIMINAL BUSINESS.

CONNOLLY REMAINS UNDER A TWO-YEAR OLD FEDERAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FOR ATTEMPTED INTIMIDATION, AND COMMUNICATING THREATS OF PHYSICAL HARM (WITH OTHER NCIS HENCHMEN), IN A STRONG-ARM ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THE WELL-KNOWN MILITARY PRACTICE OF COERCING CONFESSIONS FROM INNOCENTS. THIS THE VERY SAME POLICY CONNOLLY EMPLOYS AGAINST THE CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT.

CONNOLLY, lead investigator in the Camp Pendleton Eight cases, rigged the evidence (with his NCIS playmates) as a matter of accepted NCIS procedure. Proofs of NCIS outlawry have become as ubiquitous as they are now in public view in the war the NCIS is waging against our young Marines in service to political expedient.

Attorney John Kivlin, staffer to Congressman William Delahunt (Sgt. Hutchins' representative), said to Sergeant Harrington that although, "no man should be charged with the crime of murder in combat," still admits that Sgt. Hutchins is pronounced guilty before his court-martial ceremony, with only the length of imprisonment left to determine.

Folks, among so many others, such as Kivlin, Delahunt, Congressmen Norman D. Dicks, John Shadegg, Duncan Hunter, John Duncan, Jay Inslee, Walter B. Jones all know the military discipline is badly broken (as reported out by the COX COMMISSION in May 2001). So do Senators Ted Kennedy, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, John McCain, Jon Kyl, and John Kerry know the fix is in.

The complicity of most media outlets, those using Marines to profile liberal press political agendas, is outrageous.

Physical evidence in the CP8 nightmare is a hash, every bit of it manufactured, none of it able to survive scrutiny outside the military establishment. It's reported to Tim Harrington by individuals tied to the CP8 case, for instance, that photographs of "the body" produced in last week's Trent Thomas general court-martial are different from those used to coerce plea deals from the other four Marines and Navy Corpsman.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON.

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!

NCIS SPECIAL AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY
&
THE CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT
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FROM TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL
AN OP-ED BY FORMER DOJ LUMINARY JOHN YOO

"If Senate Democrats really thought there was any crime here, then they ought to find somebody maliciously or politically prosecuted by a new U.S. attorney, or an FBI agent forced to drop a good case because of a new U.S. Attorney's partisan agenda."

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JAG HUNTER HERE:

U.S. Attorney John Mckay was working aggressively on the Law Enforcement Information Exchange program (LInX) in March 2005 when I filed my criminal complaint against NCIS Special Agent James H. Connolly. Connolly worked out of the Silverdale, Washington Pacific Northwest regional NCIS headquarters. Special Agent Scott Jacobs was in charge at the time, Conolly's boss.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service had resurrected the LInX program by providing funding the DOJ was hard pressed to pony up. SAC Scott E. Jacobs worked on the prototype LInX program using the Pacific Northwest geographic footprint as the initial test bed. NCIS, in fact, had taken the lead on the LInX project. Scott Jacobs was the NCIS program manager working closely with McKay. (More ABOUT LInX here and POWER POINT PRESENTATION here)

I filed my criminal complaint against Connolly with the local Silverdale office of the FBI (Special Agents Patrick Gann and Stephanie Gleason - both still here). Pursuing the criminal complaint against Connolly ran the risk of focusing bright sunlight on the operation of the NCIS in local communities (local policing), and on their overall operation. More than that, my criminal complaint opened up the door on an investigation into a much larger criminal business, and was sure to seriously threaten, if not quash outright the planned launch of the LInX program. So the FBI (DOJ), the NCIS, and the DODIG ignored and stonewalled the complaint of a felony crime.

Special Agent Scott E. Jacobs was handsomely awarded by way of promotion for his successfully development and launch of LInX. Navy admirals awarded U.S. Attorney John McKay, before getting fired, the highest citation that can be given a civilian. Special Agent Ernest A. Simon holds an equivalent NCIS management position for criminal investigations.

NCIS Special Agent James H. Connolly is the supervisory special agent in charge of the Camp Pendleton Eight (HAMDANIA, IRAQ) investigation and is expected to testify in a matter of days in the court-martial of Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins that begins tomorrow.

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient man!

JAG HUNTER HERE: JAMES H. CONNOLLY, NCIS AGENT AND FRAUD, made up the HAMDANIA events. CONNOLLY and his team of NCIS thugs are all liars!! As has been drummed into my head for months by those trained in criminal investigations: NO BODY, NO DNA, NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, NO CRIME!!

In the Camp Pendleton Eight cases there hasn't been a single article of physical evidence shown the panels. All that's left are INCOMPETENT CONFESSIONS FORCED BY NCIS agent JAMES CONNOLLY and his team of henchmen.

By the way, lest you've missed it, repeating here, hoping it takes: THERE ARE NO JURIES IN MILITARY DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS. GET THAT? NO JURIES!! COURTS-MARTIAL, ALL OF 'EM, ARE ACTS OF ATTAINDER. PUNISHMENT WITHOUT LAW!!

Exculpatory evidence that did exist was suppressed or destroyed (CONNOLLY'S collection of DNA samples, chain-of-custody paper trails, forensic laboratory and autopsy reports, Lt. Nathan Phan's extensive computer records, and unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) camera footage). The UAV film is publicly reported to completely clear the Camp Pendleton Eight.

Should any reader discover a news report that speaks to the problem of physical evidence in the CP8 series of courts-martial, please send it to: THE JAGHUNTER

Meanwhile, this garbage is regularly trotted out by reporters the likes of Rick Rogers, Steve Liewer, Tom Watkins, Mark Walker, and Teri Figueroa and fed to hungry flies.

NEED AN EXAMPLE?

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!!

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!!


Copyright© The JAG HUNTER 2007

USMC - The Camp Pendleton Eight

NBCSanDiego.com Blog: Military Not Pursuing Death Penalty Against Marine

"Shumate, 21, joined the Marine Corps straight out of high school. The military has charged Shumate -- along with six other Marines and a Navy corpsman -- with murder in the death of a 52-year-old Iraqi last spring. Hashim Ibrahim Awad was shot to death in a hole near a dusty road west of Baghdad."

JAG Hunter here: Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate's Jr. home is in Matlock, Wa., near Shelton. Those who wish to help can contact Friends of Jerry!

As it happens I personally know Naval Criminal Investigative Service "beyond boundaries" (BB) Special Agent James H. Connolly.

Connolly, with fellow BBs Scott E. Jacobs , Ernest A. Simon, and L. J. Beyer (NCIS Inspector General) are all protecting former Rear Admiral John W. Bitoff, Commander Timothy W. Zeller, and Marine Corps Captain Kevin M. "Andy" Anderson in an ongoing criminal enterprise centered around a forged confession commissioned by Bitoff, and consummated by Zeller and Anderson.

These men are joined in their criminal conduct by Navy Judge Advocate General Bruce Macdonald (Navy TJAG).

BB Connolly lead a team of four armed NCIS agents who personnally threatened me on the afternoon of Thursday, 3 March 2005.

As already observed on these JAG Hunter pages, the criminal investigation of the The Camp Pendleton Eight is severely compromised.

Stay tuned! And pay attention!

JAMES H. CONNOLLY testifies in Marine's court-martial

"CAMP PENDLETON: A military investigator said his reaction was 'Holy crap!' when he learned that a member of a Marine squad had admitted to helping abduct and kill a defenseless Iraqi man in April 2006, according to testimony yesterday.

James Connelly (sic) said that until that moment, he didn't believe the squad could have done such a thing. Connelly is a special agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service."

JAG HUNTER here:

Jim Connolly is a known and reported federal felon. He's been reported a criminal (with hundreds of accomplices) to the NCIS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), FBI and others for years, years, and years.

Jim Connolly is a liar. NCIS cohort henchmen Ernest "Ernie" A. Simon and Scott Jacobs are criminally complicit. Nearly 50 NCIS agents and a few Army CID agents are presently identified as criminal thugs.

Then we have tens of criminals in high command who are currently outed and thus far similarly immune.

Still no arrests nor prosecutions of federal agents who've locked up innocent men like Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard, Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Holt, Army Private Corey Cox, Gary Shafto, all of the Camp Pendleton Eight, Edward Richmond, and thousands of other military personnel.

As previously reported in these JAG HUNTER pages, no legal standard exists allowing for military detectives working for the NCIS (or Army CID or Air Force OSI or Coast Guard Investigative Service) to be brought to consequence for their criminal conduct.

And Congress abrogated its oversight duties over two centuries ago.

John Kivlin, Bill Delahunt, Norm Dicks, Ted Kennedy, John Duncan, Dave Reichert, Kevin Kelly, Sean Noble, Tom Young, Kevin Coughlin, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, John Kerry, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Cheri-Fitz-Williams, Paula Blake, George Behan, Muriel Gibson, Jonathan Griswold, John Thomas, Walter B. Jones, Duncan Hunter, Vicki Middleton, Lincoln Vander Veen, John Shadegg, Jay Inslee, Ed O'Neil, and Adam Smith take especial notice!!

It's time to put an end to the outrage and release America's political prisoners!!

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient man!!

CAMP PENDLETON 8

Worth repeating...

Liberal media ignore Camp Pendleton Eight | Home News Tribune Online

Innocent until proven guilty? Justice for all? Benefit of the doubt? These are apparently foreign concepts when it comes to Americans in uniform being held on American soil.

JAG Hunter: That's because the NCIS is "beyond boundaries!"

BREAKING!!!

CLOSING ARGUMENT IN SGT. HUTCHINS COURT-MARTIAL

JIM CONNOLLY A CRIMINAL!!

NCIS AGENT CONNOLLY
MADE UP THE ENTIRE CASE AGAINST THE CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT!!

NCIS A ROUGE OUTLAW OUTFIT!!

ALL EIGHT COURTS-MARTIAL CALLED INTO QUESTION!!

NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE!! NO EVIDENCE AT ALL!!

SEE THE POSTING DIRECTLY BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS

CAMP PENDLETON 8

Don't Go Into The Light: The Pendleton Eight

Tim King (Salem News) reports:

On Sergeant Larry Hutchins and on the release of the Haditha Marines. Of interest is that all of the remaining Camp Pendleton Eight Marines are released as of yesterday by Lt. General James Mattis.

The CP8 serires of courts-martial (a nightmare and fiasco) were nothing but show-trials, political theatre.

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

MARINO'S MANIPULATION AND MENDACITY!

Dan Marino issued a threat Tuesday.


Marino communicated the threat through Marino's hostage, Ray Girouard.


Marino's threat was extended in agency with his colleague Tillman Finley, and on behalf of their law firm, Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan.


Marino's extortion is this: IF Marino's name, or Ray's name, or Finley's name, or a few other names appear on these JAG HUNTER pages ever again, or IF Ray's case is ever profiled here again, Marino, Finley, and their Sutherland firm will cease all representation on Ray's behalf.


Marino and the rest will leave Ray hangin'.


IF...

One must wonder whether Marino and Sutherland have communicated similar threats against Seymour Hersh at The New Yorker, or Tom Ricks of The Washington Post, or to the producers and reporters at CBS 60-minutes attempting to suppress their expression of free speech.

Marino told Ray on Tuesday that one-half million dollars is already expended on Ray's case.

So many questions rise up.


Before Marino flew to Fort Leavenworth to meet with Ray on Tuesday, Marino called here Monday at 9:29 EST.


Marino was adamant regarding Ray's guilt. Ray confessed so far as Marino and Sutherland are concerned, that's that.


Marino and company are also down with the practice of attainder.


Meanwhile, there's been a flurry of secret meetings, negotiations and quiet agreements going to Ray's release burdening Ray with the weight of a federal conviction for life.


Then there're the press deals.


Marino wire-brushed Ray on Tuesday for announcing a reporter from The New Yorker had been in Sweetwater about a month ago.


But the irritating detail that just won't go away is that Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard is innocent. And Ray's innocence is so easily demonstrated.


First off, Ray is being punished by the State without a jury's permission (attainder). Next, discovered and reported at the JAG HUNTER just before Christmas is the riggin' of Ray's probable cause hearing, the Article 32.


Marino said Monday he finds no problem with Jim Daniel's lies at the very beginning of the Art. 32. Or with those difficult details Daniel was lying about. The Article 32 is corrupted and unsustainable. By extension, the Iron Triangle series of courts-martial are corrupted and unstainable.


Statements attributed to Ray and his men were coerced. Written statements recorded closest to the events regarding Iron Triangle remain concealed or are destroyed. Marino holds the belief Ray and his men confessed freely.


But Ray had no motive.


Evidence is necessary to prove any crime, and yet, no physical evidence is presented in the cases against Ray and his men. However, a great deal of physical evidence supporting their innocence is reported held in the custody of Army officials.


Marino is admitted during Monday's telephone conversation that he's okay having expended one-half million dollars working to ensure Ray's bogus conviction remains undisturbed.


Still, the paper trail of manufactured, misleading, and false evidence attendant to Ray's counterfeit displine hearings is publicly accesible and in plain view. Copies of relevant papers were mailed out Monday.


Then there's Marino's (Sutherland's) Tuesday threat of abandonment. Ray is kidnapped and held hostage as much by Marino as by Army General Pete Chiarelli. Both men (with uncounted cohorts) obstruct the truth through the exercise of intimidation, control, and extortion.


The terrifying part of blackmail is that the victim is afraid to fight the accusations no matter how false.


It needs be mentioned that the play-action in the Ray Girouard case is as much at work in the Marine Corps. The first card to fall in that house of cards is the manufactured case against Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins (of the Camp Pendleton Eight).


Marino is expending time, energy, money and other resources (to the tune of half a million bucks) working with Army officials to handle the events surrounding Operation Iron Triangle as quitely as possible. All this goes on while Marino satifyies his own needs and interests at Ray's expense.


Marino's threat, and other ethically challenged and morally distressed activity in defense of Ray Girouard, taken together with Marino's other ethical lapses (not yet reported but widely known) render Marino severely vulnerable in a case for disbarrment. Marino's ethical misconduct stands to gravely damage the image and reputation of Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan.


This then from Ayn Rand:

"Suffering as such is not a value; only a man's fight against suffering is. If you choose to help a man who suffers, do it only on the ground of his virtures, of his fight to recover, of his rational record, of of the fact that he suffers unjustly; then you action is trade [of value for value -- virtue for virtue] and his virtue is the payment for your help."

-Atlas Shrugged

Character counts!

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!

John 15:13

Copyright © 2009 The JAG HUNTER

PANEL ACQUITS MAGINCALDA OF ALL MURDER CHARGES!

CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT UPDATE

BREAKING and BUILDING

MARINE CORPORAL FOUND BLAMEWORTHY FOR LARCENY!

NCIS AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY'S CASE A FRAUD!

SERGEANT HUTCHINS' PANEL STILL DELIBERATING.

JAG HUNTER HERE (POSTING FROM THE SWEETWATER, TENNESSEE LIBRARY):

THE RAPE OF MARINE SERGEANT

LAWRENCE GORDON HUTCHINS, III

Terry and Deanna Pennington are grandparents.

Robert Pennington, their son, raped two people. First there was the teenager, impregnated and now a mother of one.

Next there was the rape of Sergeant Hutchins.

The rape of the teenage girl led to the rape of Larry Hutchins, Rob Pennington's sergeant and squad leader in Hamdania, Iraq.

Sergeant Hutchins sits today--ATTAINTED--at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent James H. Connolly, senior investigator in the Hamdania series of courts-martial (the Camp Pendleton Eight), needed and dragooned Rob Pennington's false testimony against Sgt. Hutchins to support Connolly's fabled ghost story.

Pennington's rape of the girl was handled very quietly on the civilian side. But Pennington was an active duty Marine--on leave--at the moment of conception.

Military detective Jim Connolly found out about Pennington's rape having direct access to Pennington's civilian criminal through a new military-civilian joint data base constructed as part of the Law Enforcement Information Exchange program. With the LINX info in hand, Conolly threatened Marine Pennington with a court-martial on the girl's rape should Robert be tempted to do the right thing, and truthfully testify in defense of Sergeant Hutchins.

Pennington the coward, Robert the rapist saw to it instead that Sgt. Hutchins was imprisoned as an innocent man.

Terry and Deanna retained David Brahms as civilian defense counsel.

Brahms is a retired brigadier general (one-star officer) who retired from the Marine Corps as the Judge Advocate, Marines (JAM).

David Brahms raped Sergeant Hutchins too. Brahms is as much a coward as Rob Pennington. Both men disgrace the U.S. Marine Corps. Both men are criminals.

Terry Pennington tried to contact me two weeks ago. Grandfather Pennington knows that I know what his son did.

Both the Pennington grandparents are ranging around like cockroaches in the night trying to keep the lid on the crimes of their son, the crimes of the NCIS, the crimes of Jim Connolly, and the crimes of David Brahms.

The Pennington grandparents, doncha know, paid David Brahms a lot of money to work out Connolly's ghost story that attainted Sgt. Hutchins, and imprisoned an innocent man, and ruined an innocent family.

This is the THE AMERICAN MILITARY LEGACY OF ATTAINDER absent any judicial oversight, or credible law enforcement to hold command racketeers accountable.

NCIS-like, Connolly-like coercion and evidence tampering tactics were used in the case against Army Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard, and Marine Corporal Kevin Holt to name just two examples. In the Staff Sergeant Girouard circumstance, Army CID goons siezed a collection of lap top computers from Girouard's men, then claimed to find child porn. Witnesses against Girouard were strong-armed to testify against SSgt. Girouard or face courts-martial on fictional child pornography charges.

Connolly and other NCIS agents used the same stunt against Sgt. Hutchins.

The porn accusations remain unproved.

NCIS agents tampered with blood evidence in Marine Kevin Holt's court-martial. Navy-Marine Corps officials repeatedly refuse to allow any modern DNA testing Holt insists will clear him.

Hutchins, Girouard, Holt, and so many others could be home by Christmas only if military officers were obedient to their oaths.

Then we could get on with the task of putting the real criminals behind bars, with a real jury's permission of course.

Here endth the lesson!

UPDATES: Monday morning, 8 December 2008

Google search using "Rob Pennington's rape" as search word (60,200 hits as of 1000 hours local)
The clemency request (use PDF's rotate page tool to upright the pages -- see last sentence, page 2)...captured from Representative Bill Delahunt's website captured this morning.

JAG HUNTER HITS:

From West Point (probably wants to know the score to the Army-Navy game...34-zip! Go NAVY!!)

WHS (Washington D.C. Headquarters Services: The Pentagon

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

DO THE RIGHT THING!

Value not man-made law which Natural Law does not endorse!

Memo to Robert and Terry Pennington (son and father Pennington): DO THE RIGHT THING!

Come forward and tell the truth regarding the truth about the Camp Pendleton Eight.

Reports on these JAG HUNTER and JAGMIRE pages--and elsewhere--remain uncontested and are uncontestable.

The truth is known about the military disciplinary system and how it worked against the Pennington family (and so many other innocent families).

It's reported Terry Pennington and David Brahms recently engaged in argument. It's not hard to speculate on at least one point setting these two men afire.

Brahms with other federal agents sent the Pennington family packing on a guilt trip that grows more arduous as the days pass. Encouraged by brutes like David Brahms and James Connolly Terry and Robert are responsible for sending an innocent Marine to Fort Leavenworth.

Terry and Dave fought about the terrible weight Brahms put on their backs (and others) that eventually will crush all those under its burden.

Terry and Robert can shurg this burden and capture back what integrity and honor is left to the Pennington family name. Terry and Robert can see to it an innocent man is released from the DoD catacombs.

Report all you know regarding the diabolical agency that unites men like David Brahms, Alan Dershowitz, Anita Gorecki, Rich Brannon, Michael Steel. Tell us all you can about their cabal and community of interests. Explain to us how these reprobates make a living on your backs--and besmirch family names in the process!

Cast off the anchor. Give yourselves and other innocents one of the great gifts you have to offer in this season of giving.

Report the truth!

DO THE RIGHT THING!

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!

Copyright © THE JAG HUNTER 2008

Camp Pendleton Eight update:

U.S. MARINES recommend Trent Thomas, through an act of attainder, be punished by the commander-in-chief (represented by Lt. Gen. James Mattis) by a BAD CONDUCT DISCHARGE, reduction in rank from corporal to private first class, and prison time served.

The good news is that MARINE Corporal Thomas is being released today and gets to go home!

Here endth the lesson.

Camp Pendleton Eight

JURIST : US will not seek death penalty against second Marine in Hamdania killing

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

STEELE'S MARCH (PART II)

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

I wish to disabuse readers there was anything lawyerly, lawful, or moral regarding the IRON TRIANGLE series of courts-martial.

Ray Girouard, Ray's men and many others to include Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins are imprisoned in Defense Department caves as innocent men.

To understand why, one must comprehend and appreciate the mind of Army General Courtney or "Court" Massengale.

Massengale is Anton Myrer's antagonist in the novel Once An Eagle.

Court Massengail is a very dark appellation spoken in low whispers in code throughout Pentagon corridors. The disparagement laconically and instantly identifies flag officers known to embrace Massengail's evil nature.

Massengail's is a severely practical and vicious mind. The power, design, dim and vague patterns found in all courts-martial are its sinister products.

To Massengail, Soldiers and Marines like Ray and Larry are no more than firewood--to be cut down, chopped up, stacked, then burned in sacrifice to flag officer careers and myriad Defense Department interests.

Michael Steele, Ray's commanding officer, entered Iraq with gloves off. Steele's command climate and battlefield antics in early 2006 renewed and darkly redefined the one-time motto: "An Army of ONE." As Steele's combat antics drew closer to public attention he became a frightening threat to the Massengails then officed in the Pentagon who perceived the potential of serious harm to BIG ARMY's image. Pete Chiarelli was particularly stressed.

Michael Steele was an overreaching, careless, and incompetent infantry combat commander. Movie star Steele will appreciate more than most the movie metaphor comparing Steele to the Nick Nolte character in The Thin Red Line.

Author Anton Myrer used Massengail to symbolize the abuses of the military discipline system whereupon men like Massengail are the predators, and soldiers like Ray Girouard become the prey. In the novel Massengail day-dreams--after promoting to four-star flag rank-- that his last name had been Marshall.

General Courtney Marshall.

General "Court" Marshall.

Coming to an understating regarding the personality and motives of emperors like Court Massengail is to completely appreciate why Ray Girouard is locked up at Fort Leavenworth this Christmas time.

When Michael Steele became a threat to the Army's public image he had to go!

BIG ARMY's "Steele dilemma" accelerated to warp-speed damage control status when Steele's standing order to "KILL ALL MILITARY AGE MALES" found its way to print journalists.

Brigade commander, movie star Steele was too high profile a personality to court-martial, so Ray's court-martial was used as the vehicle to obstruct and divert public attention. Ray and his men were courts-martialed in a subterfuge combat action, while behind the scenes, Steele was quietly stripped of his infantry brigade combat command, removed from the battlefield, removed from Iraq, now to be quietly ushered out of the Army.

Any number of combat actions could have been singled out, used as a cover-story to shield Mike Steele and Pete Chiarelli. But Ray and his men--unfortunately--won the Massengail lottery. Ray's name, like Hutchins in the Camp Pendleton Eight circumstance, was plucked from the hat with the pleasure, amusement, and relief men like Massengail experience with the infliction of wrongful suffering upon innocent subordinates.

Massengail's crimes against Ray and his men are crimes of passion ever after on display.

Massengail's guilty memory is recorded in the preliminary records leading up to Ray's bogus disciplinary hearing. We'll begin profiling "Massengail's memories" in Part III of this series.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!

Copyright © THE JAG HUNTER 2008

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!

Copyright © The JAG HUNTER 2008