[VadeRetro]

At her court martial, her defense attorney could rightfully claim the inability to receive a fair trial at the hands of the military due to the Senatorial comments...

Most courts martial of enlisted personnel are so rubber-stamp as to be ridiculous. Back when I was in the Air Force (over 30 years ago), Stars and Stripes published the statistics of courts martial (IIRC just for US forces in Europe) in the previous year. Only about 13 officers had been tried. I think seven had been found guilty and six acquitted. In the same period some thousands of enlisteds had been tried with well over 90 percent convicted.

Back then I had a book on the subject titled, "Military Justice is to Justice What Military Music is to Music." Raise anything you want, score all the points you want, the answer is "Guilty!"

However, this one will be unusually high-profile, so I give your remark a "Maybe." But, prejudicial publicity or not, there seems to be a lot of evidence here. Yes, it's high profile, but all the pressure will be on the usual direction. "Guilty!"

[AFPhys]

In large part, the court martial stats (at least 30 yrs ago) were as you say because officers who could committed court martial offenses often took a plea bargain that ended their career instead of going to the court.

[Khurkris]

I was in the Army during the same time period...You mean Officers actually received Courts Martials?

I thought they just got a promotion and a transfer.

In the Army it was euphemistically referred to as 'Up & Out.'