Marine could be booted from Corps for warning troops about rapist Afghanistan cop

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Marine could be booted from Corps for warning troops about rapist Afghanistan cop
By Arturo Garcia
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 22:23 EDT

A 13-year Marine Corps veteran has drawn lawmakers’ support as he faces the end of his career for using classified information to warn his colleagues serving in Afghanistan about a local police official fired for raping children, CNN reported on Tuesday.

“The only person who’s being penalized, or potentially punished, is the person who tried to warn the Marines,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) told CNN in describing Maj. Jason Brezler’s case. “I cannot possibly understand it.”

Brezler’s attorney, Kevin Carroll, told CNN that Brezler turned himself in to superiors in summer 2012 after using classified material to alert troops Forward Operating Base Delhi in Afghanistan about police commander Sarwar Jan, whom he encountered while serving in the country’s Helmand province from 2009 and 2010, and had been hired to command Afghan officers in another district. The classified file Brezler sent to Delhi contained allegations that Jan was connected to the Taliban.

“He caused Sarwar Jan, a police official, to be fired from that position because he was raping children,” Brezler explained to CNN. “Jason immediately responded with everything he knew, including some extraordinarily derogatory information he knew about this man indicating that he was a threat not only to local children but to Marines.”