Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick. ..........Well, look who we have here.
This is the same Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick that mailed the CD full of photos to his uncle, Bill Lawson.
Uncle Bill then tried to blackmail the U.S. Army into dropping the charges. When the Army refused to abandon the rule of law in the face of blackmail, Uncle Bill then released the photos to Hackworth and 60 Minutes who then released them to everybody on the Internet from Islamic Jihad to al Qaeda.
Uncle Bill later had a news conference where he declared that the Army "had a chance to avoid all this"......if the Army had only given in to his blackmail.
It is my hope that Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick be prosecuted for every offense in the UCMJ the U.S. Army can come up with including UCMJ Article 104—Aiding the enemy.
That was a rotten thing for him to do, and a dumb thing to say. It won't help Sgt. Frederick a bit. It sets up an atmosphere where the Army has NO chance to be moderate in the sentence. So far, Sivits who plead guilty and cooperated, got the maximum sentence possible under a Special Court Martial.
Frederick faces a General Court Martial with more severe jeopardy of punishment and by the time they get to him the fallout from this can only have gotten worse. All Uncle Bill has achieved for his nephew is to make certain the Army will throw the book at him.