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Hey, it's Graham Smith and I'm here with Tom Bowman. You might remember us

where the hosts and reporters behind taking cover, the series that

investigated a friendly fire in Iraq back in 2004.

Two Marines and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in the tragedy after a marine mortar targeted one of their own positions.

More than a dozen others were wounded and the whole thing was covered up.

First, we want to say thank you for listening and staying tuned to

embedded. It's been so gratifying to hear from listeners through reviews and

emails and some folks who were there in Iraq at the time have given us new information

that we'll keep looking into. Of course we've also kept in touch with the people

who were in the schoolhouse and we were continuing to push for accountability here in

Washington and that's at the heart of the update we're bringing you today

because there's new attention on this case from Capitol Hill. You'll remember that the Marines wouldn't release

the investigative report on the friendly fire to us until we won a federal court

case against them. But before that, the widow of Rob Zerhide, one of the Marines who was

killed along with Brad's shooter, shared a copy she'd received three years late.

And even then, a lot was held back.

Elena Zerheide still wants to know why.

Because that's what I view all of this is a big fat lie.

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