Hunter to Gates: Review SEAL abuse claims

[unhappycamper]

Hunter to Gates: Review SEAL abuse claims
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 3, 2009 20:36:21 EST

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego area congressman and Iraq war veteran is asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to look into charges levied against three Navy SEALs in connection with the alleged abuse of a detainee in Iraq in early September, calling the charges an “overreaction.”

“It’s just so absurd. I mean, they split his lip. In a boxing situation, that’s legal,” Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, R-Calif., told Navy Times during a telephone interview Thursday. “They punched a terrorist in the face and, boom, we’re going to launch these guys out of the Navy.”

U.S. Special Operations Command Central on Oct. 2 charged three SEALs — Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe, and SO1 Julio Huertas — with various violations after the early September capture of Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the U.S. suspects planned the 2004 ambush of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah, Iraq.

McCabe is charged with one count each of assault, dereliction of duty and making a false official statement. Keefe is charge with one count each of dereliction of duty and false official statement. Huertas is accused of dereliction of duty, false official statement and impeding an investigation.

All three are assigned to SEAL Team 10, based in Little Creek, Va.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/12/navy_hunter_seals_120309w/



unhappycamper comment: This is the son of Duncan 'Lemon-Chicken' Hunter.

[rpannier]

1. Boxing is a sport involving 2 willing participants

Using Hunter's analogy, if I punch someone walking out of the store, that's not battery