“bullshit, you are wrong wrong wrong, no order is presumptively legal.”
BS to you. All orders are presumptively legal, otherwise every order would have to come with an explanation of the lawful authority for the order.
Subordinate: “You want me to do what? Well, just prove that’s a lawful order!”
Superior: “I don’t need to. You can think about it in Leavenworth, and I’ll find someone else to carry out my
orders.”
“All orders are presumptively legal...”
So...when I was ordered to falsify official documents, was that presumptively legal?
There is a reason why I and others like me were required to review the laws of armed conflict on a regular basis. There is a reason why I’ve sat in an exercise and listened to a 3-star general discuss the legality of certain options with the staff lawyers.
There is a reason I was told in OTS that I must not obey orders blindly.
wrong, dude