6/5/2008: Intel News Brief: 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson Found Not Guilty:

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A Marine intelligence officer accused of
trying to cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis appeared stunned at first
when a jury acquitted him of the charges.

For more than two years, 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson had been under
suspicion, accused of ordering the destruction of evidence in the
biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths to come out of the
war.

"I didn't really believe it was going to end until they said not
guilty," Grayson said in his first public comments following the
verdict. "The case was so volatile, you didn't know which way it was
going to go."

Grayson had always maintained his innocence. On Wednesday, a military
jury agreed with him.

Cheers erupted as the jury found him not guilty of ordering a sergeant
to delete photographs of the bodies from a digital camera and laptop
computer.

The judge, Maj. Brian E. Kasprzyk, admonished the courtroom, telling
them: "There will be no more of that."

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