My NEW Enemy Within Award Goes to The Two Traitors Listed

November 9, 2007
Military Jury Acquits Army Sniper of Premeditated Murder in Killings of 3 Iraqis
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
The leader of an Army sniper unit was acquitted yesterday of premeditated murder charges in connection with the killings of three Iraqi men in a region south of Baghdad last spring.
A military jury found the soldier, Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley, 27, of the First Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, Fourth Brigade (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, not guilty of murder in the three killings on separate occasions in April and May near Iskandariya.
He was found guilty of wrongfully placing an AK-47 rifle with the remains of one of the three men and of showing disrespect for a superior officer.
The verdict was handed down late yesterday evening at Camp Liberty, Iraq, the sprawling American military base where the court-martial of Sergeant Hensley, of Candler, N.C., was held. Neither Sergeant Hensley nor his parents, Christian missionaries who had returned from Macedonia this year to support their son, could be immediately reached for comment.
In an e-mail interview last month, Sergeant Hensley, an Army Ranger who was brought into the sniper unit to train other soldiers to become more deadly, said he felt bitter toward First Battalion’s two senior leaders for making him “the fall guy” for tactics they had encouraged.
“I felt betrayed by my battalion commander and command sergeant major,” he said, referring to Lt. Col. Robert Balcavage and Command Sgt. Maj. Bernie Knight, respectively. “Every last man we killed was a confirmed terrorist. We were praised when bad guys died. We were upbraided when bad guys did not die.”
Colonel Balcavage and Sergeant Major Knight could not be reached for comment.

NOTE : My Take ( And MY Option ) on this Story is " Colonel Balcavage and Sergeant Major Knight should be Relived From Duty as Traitors to the Men of their unit, Traitors to the US Army and as Traitors to their Country
At Any other time in our Country’s History, they would have been drummed Out of the U.S. Army for putting their men on Trail for shooting the Enemy