broadsword
Brigadier
The circumstantial evidence was probably weak also.
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The circumstantial evidence was probably weak also.
So who is actually accountable for this? Hundreds of millions did go up in smoke didn’t it?
In the counter-argument from the defendant side, faulty lithium batteries combusting was one of the possible causes.
Some details on closing arguments submitted before the not-guilty verdict -
Then whoever purchased faulty batteries and people who failed to check it should be held accountable. If they let people off the hook then what’s there to stop similar things from happening in the future?
The problem now is that we don't know if the Navy has even initiated a formal investigation into other causes for the fire, since the bulk of their investigative efforts had been focused on a one-man arson operation, based entirely on circumstantial evidence provided by a single corroborating witness, who "agreed" to testify because he was getting harassed by NCIS, who still couldn't keep his story straight throughout the trial.
That obviously all went up in smoke now (pun intended), and the Navy is presently caught with their pants down wondering: "What now?"
“There’s a temptation because the Chinese military is untested from a combat perspective, to sort of say, well, maybe they’re just as feckless as the Russian forces were. I think that would be a mistake,” Flournoy said. “You know, I don’t think we should say they’re 10 feet tall, [and] they have their own problems and their own challenges, and they are untested. But they’ve also made tremendous strides in the professionalization of the force, particularly over the last decade, and I don’t think we should underestimate them.”
Pearl Harbor but with Lenovo and HP laptops instead of planes and carriers.
