WorldNetDaily: Drop murder charges, says Pantano prober

And to think that the prober involved, Lt. Col. Mark E. Winn USMC, doesn't even like Lt. Pantano or his defense counsel. Nevertheless, in a classic swallow-my-gorge report, he flatly admits that the government would never be able to adduce sufficient evidence to convict Lt. Pantano of anything beyond firing more rounds of ammunition than might have been "necessary" to deal with the threat he faced. The Marine Corps cannot charge Lt. Pantano with premeditated murder--their chief witness is totally unreliable (well, duh!) and if that's all the Corps has, then it has no case.

Let's hope the Corps sees reason here. Lt. Pantano acted in self-defense. That much is abundantly clear, and always was. Furthermore, his act saved countless lives that we probably won't hear about. (What was it that Frederic Bastiat said about the most salient facts being those you don't even see?)