Gitmo Continues to Haunt
Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first…
Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first time in modern history. The short answer is: Even in the military, the Secretary of Defense cannot change the rules and procedures for criminal prosecutions and tell military judges how to try cases.
Here is the backstory.
For years, the feds told us that Osama bin Laden was the 9/11 mastermind. Then, after they murdered bin Laden in his home in Pakistan in 2011, they decided that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the real mastermind and they. . .
Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first…
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