the judge said that there was good reason to believe a railroading was taking place
live with it.
your hero has problems
those who fail to admit that also have problems
Well, then the system worked in the end didn't it, with the accused Marines going free?
And quite frankly, all I'm seeing on this thread are a bunch of keyboard JAGs stringing together external articles and blog stories which only present a flawed, emotionally charged picture of what was going on with the case which has absolutely nothing to do with the UCMJ perspective.
And since I know the principal senior officers involved, I'm not about to violate their confidence and post descriptions of internal discussions just so that you keyboard JAGs can kick at Mattis.
He's now CENTCOM commander. If Obama and Gates let him do his job, he'll finish cleaning out Iraq and put the Iranians in their place. If not, then he'll shortly join McChrystal in troubled retirement.