Brent Marks 09 Beyond All Recognition by Kenneth Eade

Author:Kenneth Eade [Eade, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781535097710
Google: yYJDDQEACAAJ
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-07-04T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

Before the trial started, Brinkman took Brent aside and made him an offer that he thought Ryan could not refuse. Ryan would plead guilty to murder and serve fifteen years in prison. Brent wanted to tell Brinkman to stuff his offer, but since the offer had been made, he had an obligation to communicate it to Ryan, who didn’t take long to consider it. In his view, being separated from his family until his daughters were grown up was not a lot different than life in prison. Without even consulting his wife, he told Brent to reject the offer.

Brent had made a sealed motion to the military judge to produce Robert Garcia as a witness without revealing his identity to the government. Brent didn’t even reveal his identity to the judge. The motion asked the judge not only to conceal the identity of the witness, but also to grant him testimonial immunity so that what he said could not be used against him in another court-martial trial.

The proffered testimony of the witness, John Doe 1, is critical to the theory of the defense case that, at the highest levels of the government, it was decided that death squads be utilized in Iraq to fight the insurgency, not only to fight the insurgents, but also to make it appear that large groups of organized Al-Qaeda terrorists were operating in conjunction with the insurgency.

Much to Brinkman’s chagrin, the judge granted the motion. He also denied the government’s motion to exclude the deposition testimony of John Riechert and Colonel Steelman, opting to have a closed session with the members and to rule whether each item objected to was critical to national security or not when the point came up in court.

Ryan understood the judge’s pronouncement of his rulings and he could see that Brinkman was visibly upset with them.

“Why did he rule in our favor?”

“Sometimes the good guys get a point, Ryan. And sometimes they know how much of a rigged game it is and they just want to make it appear to be fair.”

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