[brityank]

Hallelujah indeed.

It won’t happen — but at the end of this long, painful road I would wish that General Mattis could say: “I am recommending Court Martial be instituted against those members of JAG and the NCIS who bought into this tragedy, with the aim of assisting in the civilian prosecution of the members of the Media that promulgated lies and innuendo as fact. The damage done to my Marines and my Corps deserves nothing less!”

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The JAG military prosecutors are not culpable, imho. In their very next assignment, they could be assigned as "defense lawyers." They must follow a process when a titling takes place, and they must give it all they've got with the best of their ability. NCIS is a culprit, and so is the requirement for investigations of every little act in Iraq.

One great inequity that's now apparent, imho, is the disparity in budgets. The prosecutors and NCIS apparently have limitless, gov't financed budgets. This seems unfair to me in that, as opposed to the civilian world, the congressionally mandated UCMJ REQUIRES defense of accused soldiers as well as prosecution. They REQUIRE a defense counsel be appointed as part of the UCMJ process. They should, therefore, also require EQUAL expenditures for both defense and prosecution, since both are under the auspices of the very same military.