re: #784 subsailor68

Hm, could be, but the trials themselves appear to be about assault and failure to protect, not about covering it up - which is interesting. I need to do some more reading to get the chronology/decisions straight.

The Seal’s were accused of a cover up by denying they punched the terrorist in the gut and trying to get others to go along. They won because of lack of enough proof that the non Seals testimony backing up the terrorist version was accurate. I suspect a Seal lost his temper, others helped cover his ass and the military just wanted the uppopular issue to go away.
Like many technical infractions of the rules of war that happen in the heat of battle, this one could have just been ignored, but it’s a gray area.