A bizarre turn on the investigative trail | Salon.com
I don't really know why Salon journalist Mark Benjamin let this story be published. It is a little amusing, but mainly at his expense.
In short, he attempts to follow a lead about a war crime in Iraq from an ex-Marine who sounds, right from the start, very unlike an ex-Marine.
Despite all the warning signs that this guy was not the genuine deal, the reporter goes on a snowy trip only to find a paranoid young guy sitting in a chalet with his stoner friends in a haze of pot smoke. The interview ends abruptly when the CIA is mentioned. It is never clearly established whether he was really a Marine at all (despite some apparent early confirmation of it from other sources.)
I would not have been particularly happy about paying for the trip if I were Mark Benjamin's editor.
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