Army probe of Reuters death tainted: U.S. inspector

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers who killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq acted within military rules, but the Army's probe of the incident was tainted by its failure to preserve evidence, a Pentagon investigation said on Monday.

The Defense Department's inspector general, the Pentagon's watchdog agency, found that U.S. soldiers who fired on a Reuters car in west Baghdad in August 2005, killing Reuters Television soundman Waleed Khaled, reasonably responded to what they thought was a threat.

But the inspector general criticized the Army investigator for losing a critical piece of evidence -- video from a Reuters cameraman in the car that captured events leading up to and including the shooting.

That Army investigator's actions rightfully led Reuters to believe the investigation was not thorough or independent, the inspector general's report said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/media_nm/iraq_usa_journalist_dc_1

[JDPriestly]

1. Hmm. So the deaths of some journalists get very little attention

and the deaths of others get headlines for days. What is to account for how little or how much we value human life? So the military did not bother to preserve the evidence? How callous can you get?

[acmavm]

2. They LOST it? How con-veeeeeennnnnnient!

[defendandprotect]

3. Leads me to believe . . .

that the attitudes of this neo-con administration leads to murder --- torture ---
and cover up --- everywhere in our government!!!