Posted on 06/14/2019 9:28:31 AM PDT by jazusamo
When I served as a Navy prosecutor in the early 1990s, the military justice system served America well. We stood alongside warfighting commanders to instill good order and discipline, with a goal of victory in combat.
If a Marine did not report for duty, we prosecuted him. If a sailor disobeyed a lawful order, a court-martial followed. If a Bo Bergdahl deserted the Army and conspired with the enemy while Americans died looking for him, we would prosecute the hell out of him and then throw away the key.
All of this supported a sharp, buffed-up, well-oiled military without extra fat, built to defeat the enemy.
How things have changed.
These days, corrupt military investigators and prosecutors follow a simple formula: prosecute a high-profile case, make national news, and then punch your ticket when you leave the Judge Advocate General's Corps.
Cha-ching, cha-ching.
This prosecutorial ambition is only part of the cancer. Outright corruption is a bigger problem.
This month in San Diego, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s defense team exposed tons of prosecutorial corruption, revealing that Navy prosecutors spied on defense lawyers. (Gallagher is on trial for the "murder" of an Islamic State terrorist.) They made a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. Defense attorney Tim Parlatore also exposed Navy criminal investigators in the process.
When hauled before the military judge to explain the alleged spying, three Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents retreated like cowards and refused to testify. Imagine that! criminal investigators sworn to uphold the Constitution decided to hide behind the Fifth Amendment to cover their own tracks.
Navy Captain Capt. Aaron Rugh, the military judge, chided the NCIS agents, saying the "lack of candor or cooperation in this process, I think, could be huge as a sign of culpability."
No kidding.
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I agree.
Political correctness has thoroughly spread through our military commands and the JAG Corps.
There’s no place for PC in the military, especially when fighting a war
I fear this occurred on many occasions.
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Amen to that!
Thanks JonPreston. Lets hope we all remain in the fight...
All the best...
PING
Check out # 8.
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It is past time.
You make valid points, D1.
I think PDJT works harder than most any president has.
For all the people who say this isn’t important and Trump is too busy - I don’t agree.
First, this goes to the heart of military discipline - and “Commander in Chief” is the President’s first job.
Second - it isn’t hard. You find a bulldog, you give that bulldog orders, and you tell the bulldog to report back to you every 3 months.
You want to free up time for the President? Peel off most of the public head of state crap he has to waste time on.
You are right about that. They[Republicans] also did everything in their power to put Hillary Clinton in the White House.
Thanks Jazusamo.
“....if military justice itself is corrupted....”
It’s not corrupted, it’s user friendly. For the longest time there has been a real shortfall on people in the military and to fill certain jobs within it that no one wants. Closing off career fields, forced cross training like Palace Balance, and cutting off other career field from advancement and SRB’s, (selective reenlistment bonuses), have become tools to try to stay with the fast leaving troops. So the article 15 also became the way to keep people in line so they could reenlist without poisoning their chances. It’s all about numbers.
But this is the UCMJ. It’s a game of standoffs.
rwood
[You are right about that. They[Republicans] also did everything in their power to put Hillary Clinton in the White House.]
Ah, the Jeb! 2016 “campaign”.......
Good article.
Our newly minted little congressman Conor Lamb made it the centerpiece of his campaign. I believe he served all of eight months with the USMC in Okinawa before being pulled home for a political appointment in the ObaMao administration.
Who else gets deals like that? At least the congressman in my new district, Guy Reschenthaler, served three years in an ACTUAL COMBAT zone (Iraq) and didn't make it the centerpiece of his campaign. He actually successfully defended a Navy SEAL accused of roughing up a terrorist.
Yeah, that was ObaMao's military.
God Bless this PResident!!
Things have changed since your day.
And get the military to stop waving around that GD queer flag.
Yes...
In the Air Force, an Art 15 is pretty poisonous for your changes to re-up.
Colonel, USAF (ret)
Bump!
Really? As of five years ago when i was a JAG commanders still had to be the ones that decided to punish or charge people, not lawyers.
So has the UCMJ or the MCM changed the rule that has existed since 1940?
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