” >Driscoll then blamed the defense for not giving him what he wanted.
“I expressly instructed ‘[y]our submissions, if any, on the subject of lawfulness of orders, derivation of authority, political questions and the like should be sufficiently scholarly to allow me to make an informed determination of relevance of the requested items to the truth of the specifications and charges at issue,” Driscoll wrote.” <
I believe that the Article 32 Investigating Officer, LTC Driscoll, has been “talked to.”
If so, then there’s a possibility of “undue command influence” in the prosecution of LTC Lakin’s Trial by Court-martial.
Also... “Derivation of authority?” What greater “derivation of authority” is there other than the Constitution of the United States?
By the Constitution, LTC Lakin has the responsibility to question the authority of Obama and in the same respect those officers appointed over him IF HE BELIEVES THAT ORDERS ARE ILLEGAL.
A Commissioned Officer’s FIRST responsibility is to the Constitution. Period.
He did that, which is why he's being court martialed. Not he has to show why the orders of his brigade commander are illegal.