Ah but they did because they think it is a political determination and not a judicial one. LTC West did not overstay his welcome at a parking meter. He committed certain acts to protect the lives of his men. The decision about the propriety of those acts is political first, and only later judicial.
You fail to understand. LTC West is not the combat commander. That is the CG and his superiors in theater, and they are the ones who are the subject of Duncan Hunters inquiry.
Then they are about to be made to look like fools.