While congress & O are busy being outraged over AIG, here’s some news you might have missed in the MSM.

Remember murtha’s rant about the cold blooded Marine-killers at Haditha?

SAN DIEGO (AP) -
A military appeals court has upheld the DISSMISSAL of war crime charges against the highest-ranking Marine charged with killing 24 civilians in Iraq in 2005.

The ruling on Tuesday agreed with a Camp Pendleton military judge’s decision to dismiss charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani.
In June 2008, the judge found that a four-star general overseeing the case was improperly influenced by an investigator probing the killings in Haditha.

And then there’s this little gem:

Woman Recants Claim Marine Raped Her

MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino woman whose accusations of rape led to the conviction of a U.S. Marine has altered her testimony and emigrated to the United States, saying she was no longer certain that a crime took place, a lawyer said Wednesday.

The case has strained U.S.-Philippine military relations amid calls for the scrapping of a pact allowing U.S. troops to train Filipino soldiers, and has become a rallying point for anti-American protests.

Three years after Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith was convicted of rape and sentenced to 40 years in jail, his accuser submitted a five-page affidavit to an appeals court Tuesday saying she now doubts her own version of events.

The U.S. Embassy in Manila is consulting with American government legal experts in Washington on the case, embassy spokeswoman Rebecca Thompson said, without elaborating. She refused to comment on reports that the woman had gone to the United States.

Smith, 23, from St. Louis, Missouri, has been detained at the U.S. Embassy while his case is on appeal. Last month, the Philippine Supreme Court ruled he should be serving his sentence in a Philippine jail but left it to the government to negotiate his transfer with Washington. Smith is appealing his conviction.