Mr. Stancik recommended dismissing the former teacher, now assigned to administrative duties at a Bronx high school.
Mr. Muhsin, Mr. Maliki's anticorruption coordinator, said the judge was one of three cabinet-level officials serving on the committee that had recommended dismissing the inspectors general.
A military investigator has recommended dismissing all charges against a Marine Corps infantryman accused of killing Iraqi civilians, including women and children, in a house-to-house raid in Haditha in late 2005.
Colonel Ware later recommended dismissing the charges against those two men, and he has said the killings should be viewed in the context of combat against an enemy that ruthlessly employs civilians as cover.
Last month, Lt. Col. Paul J. Ware, who has presided over the hearings for all three enlisted men in the Haditha case, recommended dismissing all charges against the other enlisted man, but no decision has been made.
This month, a Marine lawyer investigating the charges recommended dismissing them, for lack of evidence, and warned that pressing flimsy cases against combat troops "sets a dangerous precedent" that eroded public support for the war and could cause infantrymen to hesitate when fighting a determined enemy.
General Mattis followed the recommendation of the Marine officer who presided over the evidentiary hearing for Colonel Chessani, but went against the advice of the investigator who examined the evidence in Corporal Tatum's case and later recommended dismissing all charges.
In his latest report, in which he recommended dismissing 10 murder charges against Sergeant Wuterich and reducing seven others to negligent homicide, Colonel Ware wrote that the evidence presented to him "is simply not strong enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt".
On June 25, Federal Magistrate Karen Litkovitz recommended dismissing the case, which was filed in Cincinnati, noting that shooter's allegations were "rambling, difficult to decipher and borders on delusional".
The Justice Department agreed to delay prosecution for a year and eventually to recommend dismissing charges if the bank complies fully with the agreement, which was a result of a four-year investigation.
