The lawyer defending the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians said on Friday U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident.
“We are facing an almost complete information blackout from the government which is having a devastating effect on our ability to investigate the charges preferred against our client,” said John Henry Browne, who is defending the accused Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has been charged with murdering eight adults and nine children in cold blood. But the official story – that he left his base to kill only once and that he acted alone – has been challenged by eyewitnesses and other Afghan villagers.
The U.S. military has claimed that there is no access to the crime scene for security reasons, but recent excursions by journalists seeking to view the evidence and interview the eyewitnesses and victims’ surviving family members belie those excuses.
Brown claims American authorities are trying to prevent him from investigating by denying access and letting the witnesses scatter without a way to contact them again. “When we tried to interview the injured civilians being treated at Kandahar Hospital we were denied access and told to coordinate with the prosecution team,” said Browne.
“The next day the prosecution team interviewed the civilian injured. We found out shortly after the prosecution interviews of the injured civilians that the civilians were all released from the hospital and there was no contact information for them,” the statement said.
I saw Bales' lawyer John Henry Browne speaking in a video. To me, he is not someone I would trust to tell the truth.
This is going to make the Pat Tillman cover-up look like child's play……..
Easiest job in the world: discrediting the US military information service.
Blind alley fiction
When lawyer Browne first got the job, before he had a chance to investigate anything, he was feeding us this song and dance, “There is no evidence whatsoever against my client… A defense attorney’s dream.”
So, we the public want the truth, we and we alone demand the truth, whereas everyone on both sides of this criminal prosecution will strive to generate fiction, the whole fiction and nothing but fiction.
“Deepest shadow and deep fiction,
where even light is like fiction.”
And we expect anything less from a government that claims it has no records, documents or photographs, of Osama bin Laden's death and burial?
Arrrr matey, methinks there be skullduggery below decks.
Worse than that John, there is skullduggery above decks too…. They lie right to our faces and when they get caught, OOOOOOO "I can't discuss that" because it's being litigated, investigated…. or it is an "official Secret" metastasizing untreated in what once resembled a system of justice so it has now become nearly unrecognizable…
The U.S. military engaging in a cover-up? Inconceivable!
Well, whatadaya expect? When sleep with a dog, you'll wake up with fleas. BTW, this is poetic justice at its best.
This lawyer is probably pursuing a greymail strategy.