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Published: 03/26/09

Murtha Feeling the Blog Heat

By  Dave - Politics Daily
Murtha Feeling the Blog Heat

Blackfive.net, a blog that's in my reader and should be in yours, gets a little love from Jen Dimascio of Politico today, at the expense of US Rep, John Murtha:Rep. John P. Murtha knows something about taking enemy fire - from his two Purple Hearts in Vietnam to the recent salvos over his ties to lobbyists and defense contractors and the alleged exchange of earmarks for campaign contributions.But he's sustaining incoming of a different sort from Uncle Jimbo, aka James Hanson, a former special forces soldier-turned-military blogger who has the Pennsylvania congressman in his cross hairs. Hanson ...

Published: 06/5/08

Marine Acquitted of Haditha Cover Up

By  Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily
Marine Acquitted of Haditha Cover Up

Marine First Lieutenant Andrew Grayson was acquitted yesterday of charges that he helped cover up the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The Haditha case had become a cause celeb for anti-war liberals and some Democratic members of Congress, who said that it demonstrated the strain that U.S. forces were under in Iraq and amounted to Iraq's My Lai. But the facts of the case have always been in dispute. Eight Marines were initially charged with various crimes in the incident. That list is down to three as military prosecutors dropped charges against five of the Marines. ...

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