As far as John was concerned, this report was a smoking-gun hot potato, both politically and legally, that cast inexcusable shame and wrongdoing at the feet of the prosecution. Either the prosecution had deliberately withheld exonerating evidence, or had been criminally negligent in failing to turn over exonerating evidence that should have been made available to the defense—and the military jury—from the beginning. Carney must have discovered this, too, as soon as he ran the search.
