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Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Michael
Thanks Diana, this tells the story here. We need folks to post comments. Bob McCarty is going to publish 8 articles on Michael. Thanks
Here is the admittance in writing of the world renown forensic expert, Dr. MacDonnell, that his examination of the forensic evidence supports Lt Behenna's testimony that he acted in self-defense when he shot Ali Mansur, a known Al Qaeda member, and that the Prosecution was advised of this and sent him home rather calling him to testify. They withheld evidence that exonerates this Soldier! AND he sits in Leavenworth for 20 years! Thanks for any help you can give this Soldier.
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
(An) After Action Report In Support of Michael Behenna: I proudly accompanied Michael Behenna's mother, Vicki Behenna, to meetings on December 2nd and 3rd with Congress and Senate officers in DC.
We are profoundly grateful to Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Inhofe for meeting with us and special thanks to Senator Coburn and his office for making these arrangements. Thank you to Senator Lieberman's office for meeting with us. We are deeply grateful and appreciative to Congressman Steve King for his time and offer to help as well as Congressman Cole and Congressman Joe Wilson. Thank you to the congressional offices of Congressman Boren and Congressman Kline for meeting with us. Special Special thanks to Rebeccah Heinrichs of Trent Franks office for arranging a briefing for us with many officers of Congress. Congressional offices represented include House Minority Leader John Boehner, Duncan Hunter, Roy Blunt and Senator Coburn. If I missed any, please forgive me.
All offered to send letters to the Clemency Board in support of Michael and some feel hearings are in order! I am forever grateful to all of these elected officials for their concern for Michael and their offers of support to Michael's mother, Vicki Behenna. The motto of The Band of Mothers is "Warriors Come From Warriors" and Vicki Behenna is a Warrior!
To watch this mother fight for her son's life was humbling and inspiring. As her son is a Hero, so too is she. The following is a story posted on Big Government regarding the Navy Seals, Haditha Marines, and Michael Behenna!
GREAT NEWS that Big Government has exposed the travesty of justice regarding our Heroes. Special thanks to Kaite O'Malley for all she has done to get Michael's story out in the main stream media. God Bless You Katie!
Below is the link and my post in the comment section. Folks, Please leave a comment:
A big heartfelt "Thank You" to Mike Flynn and Bob McCarty for posting this despicable story of the abuse our Soldiers/Seals are suffering as they try to do the job we have asked them to do!! In the case of lst Lt Michael Behenna, who is serving 20 years at Leavenworth for DEFENDING himself against a known terrorist, Ali Mansur, not all the evidence was presented at his trial.
The prosecution had a world renown forensic expert, Dr. MacDonnel, as their witness. However, when the doctor heard Michael's testimony at trial as to what happened, he told the prosecutors Michael was telling the truth based on his examination of the forensic evidence, and that Michael did indeed DEFEND himself against this "KNOWN" terrorist, Ali Mansur, he did not commit pre-mediated murder.
What is horrendous is that the prosecution sent Dr. MacDonnell home that day and would not call him as a witness.
This is so terribly wrong as the doctor's testimony would have exonerated Michael and today he would be at home with his family instead of sitting in Leavenworth, where he has just begun his eighth month of incarceration! Further, at trial, the judge gave instruction to the jury before deliberations that since Michael had his gun drawn on the "KNOWN" terrorist Ali Mansur, that could be seen as provoking the attack by Mansur!
As the mother of a Son who served 4 deployments with the 82nd Airborne, that instruction to the jury has frightening implications for our military Heroes. In other words, if holding a gun on a terrorist in this war means you are provoking an attack by the terrorists, it looks like the Army will fill Leavenworth to the brim with military Heroes who, according to the judge in Michael's trial, do not have the inherent right to defend themselves from terrorists! Ali Mansur was a known Al Qaeda member. He had already planted an IED on a roadside and Michael and his men had had been instructed by intelligence to take another route! Further, Michael had lost two of his men weeks before due to the actions of Ali Mansur and this Al Qaeda cell!!!
What has happened to lst Lt Michael Behenna is an outrage! We are affording rights to terrorists and denying our brave men and women the right to defend themselves. Michael Behenna's mother and myself spent the last two days in DC meeting with Congress and Senate officers and they have expressed to us their concern in this matter also. I'd like to especially thank Congressman Steve King, who not only offered to write a letter to the clemency board, but who also will request Michael be released to his family while clemency hearing/appeals take place. Obviously, the Army does not feel Michael is a threat as Mike was given a presidential detail in the interim before he was formally charged!
Michael Behenna is a Hero who killed a terrorist! If he was serving during World War II, he would have come home to a ticker tape parade and medals for killing the enemy. Now, in this politically correct war we are fighting, the Army has turned their back on this Hero and sentenced him to 20 years in prison!
God help our military and shame on the Army! Please write the Secretary of the Army and ask him to afford Michael the inherent right to defend himself against a known terrorist, and let this brave young man go home to his family.
The Honorable John McHugh
Secretary of the United States Army
1400 Defense Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20301-1400
Thank You.
With A Mother's Heart,
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
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... check out the latest video from HUMAN EVENTS TV with Rep. Michele Bachmann on the undercover ACORN footage
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Today's Top Story
First there was “
Countrywide Chris” Dodd (D-Conn.), whose combination of poor judgment and possible corruption qualifies him to be Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Then there was Tim “TurboTax” Geithner, whose false tax return filings qualify him to be Secretary of the Treasury. And now, in keeping with the Democrats’ recent tendency to have scoundrels in the highest positions involving regulation of the nation’s finances, we have the Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who recently filed amended financial disclosure reports showing a net worth about double what he had previously reported.
(Rangel’s original 2007 disclosure form and the amendment can be seen
here in pdf form.)
In addition to showing his net worth increasing from a range of $516,015 and $1,316,000 to a range of $1,028,024 to $2,495,000 in his amended 2007 financial disclosure form filed last month, Rangel also reported substantial 2007 income and several transactions involving mutual fund sales, purchases, and exchanges which he had not disclosed earlier. The new numbers are not small, especially as a percentage of Rangel’s total net worth.
For example, while Rangel was reporting net worth in the area of $1 million, he “overlooked” two accounts worth over $250,000 each (one checking, one mutual fund), another bank account, several other mutual fund accounts, and holdings of stock and land totaling another roughly $300,000. In other words, Rangel’s unreported assets were worth about as much as his reported assets.
