Do we even know that Obama knew about this case? I do not know every courts martial that goes on in the Navy for example. I think he is scum but regardless of that it has nothing to do with the charges against this guy. The way to go about this issue would be get a conservative Senator who agrees with him and see if he could state his case to Congress. Many people speak to congress on a daily basis (perhaps exaggerated) but very often. That is the way to go not saying FU to your bosses who simply ask you to report to their offices. That was his biggest mistake. How does he know that seeing his superiors would not have ended up being a positive thing.
He went to a Congress-critter and high-level staffers and was told he had a legitimate concern but because the media ridicules the issue the Congress-critter wasn’t going to do anything about it.
Not only are we not governed by the rule of law, we are governed by Olbermann and Matthews. Can you believe this is really happening? Good Lord, preserve us all!
Great Britain had begun that system of impressment of seamen from American merchant-vessels which was destined to result finally in war between the two nations. Seriously in need of men to aid in her struggle with France, and now unable to buy them from the German duchies, as she had done in the American war, she claimed the right to take British seamen wherever found, and to stop and search vessels on the high seas. At first, indeed, the claim was limited to deserters from the British service. But it was soon extended to cover British seamen, and finally to embrace all British subjects. Eventually the seamen on American merchantmen were obliged to prove on the spot that they were to American birth, or be subject to impressment. As early as the years 1796-7 applications were made in London for the release of two hundred and seventy-one seamen thus seized within nine months, most of them American citizens. It was later, however, before this evil grew so intolerable as to demand warlike redress.http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_II/britishim_jc.html
Do you seriously believe that nobody in his administration, not Gibbs, not Gates, nobody, told him about the case?