Sorry, ongoing oerations and support there of predating the swearing in of Barack Obama make his course of action as someone earlier stated,... ridiculous.
The questions he was asking perhaps should have been asked and answered but not in the manner or venue he chose.
Apologies:
Ongoing operations
These orders were part of a surge. Joe Biden, who would have been President/CINC if Obama was not eligible, wanted us to withdraw from Afghanistan at the time. This was very much a decision of whether to have combat operations or to fold up shop. And that decision could only lawfully be made by a Constitutional Commander in Chief.
As to venue, what is a person who has sworn to protect and defend the US Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic to do when the courts have said that there literally is no venue in which it is anybody’s business whether the Commander-in-Chief is actually a foreign enemy combatant against the US Constitution? You may think there was a better venue through which the issue should have been resolved but the fact is that ALL THE JUDGES disagreed with you. This was literally the only venue that hadn’t already been shot down by the courts.
And the same thing happened again when Trump questioned in legal proceedings whether the 2020 election was stolen - a case in which the DOJ ALREADY KNEW that it was stolen by a hostile foreign nation (as per Emerald Robinson who I linked to earlier). All the courts said either it was too early, too late, wrong venue, non-justiciable, or it was not even Trump’s business whether his rightful election was stolen from him. And now it looks very, very possible that the judges who hamstrung the whole nation and Constitution were themselves in the treasonous employ of Venezuela, China, Cuba, Iran, and Serbia via Cartel del Sol.
Everybody else was “just following orders” (of people probably owned by the enemies of the USA). Maybe there was no right way of doing anything, but if I had to choose between Lakin’s sacrifice of himself as the only chance that hadn’t already been shot down, versus the Nuremburg-type plea of “just following orders”, I would choose Lakin’s sacrificial love of this country EVERY DAMN TIME.