Attorneys stunned CNO's SEAL court-martial orders not followed

[Recursion]

Source: Navy Times

Hours after Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson ordered authorities to dismiss all charges against SEAL Lt. Jacob X. “Jake” Portier, prosecutors told the military judge hearing the case that they couldn’t actually dismiss it.

Prosecutors had accused Portier of helping to cover up alleged war crimes committed by Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher during an Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7, deployment to Iraq in 2017, but Richardson on Thursday ordered the Navy to drop the case in what appeared to be unambiguous language.

“Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson today dismissed all charges in the case of Lt. Jacob Portier," read the Thursday statement issued by the sea service.

Reached at the Pentagon by Navy Times, officials appeared stunned that CNO’s orders weren’t followed. Adm. Richardson at the time was in Millington, Tennessee, visiting Navy Personnel Command, they said.

Read more: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/08/02/attorneys-stunned-cnos-seal-court-martial-orders-not-followed/

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Holy crap

[mr_lebowski]

1. Looks like Trump's meddling in Military Justice, at the behest of Hannity et al ...

Might just create a major crisis.

I don't know TOO much about this shit, but my impression is the Military Justice is considered pretty sacrosanct. Like, as CiC you can tell the military where to go fight, and all sorts of other things, but a common belief is that when it comes to policing our own, when it comes to our internal system of Justice, that's not your DOMAIN, Mr. Politician CiC.

My guess is that Mango Mussolini done crossed a line in trying to defend these two Killers, to please Fox Viewers/Hannity.

We'll see what the price to pay turns out to be.

[TeamPooka]

2. Trump is telling troops its okay to act with dishonor as long as you're on my side.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Certainly f***ing looks that way ... which is DESPICABLE AND TRAITOROUS ...

Esp. for a Bone-Spur-faking COWARD ASS RICH BITCH CODDLED SPOILED MOTHERF***ER.

And I'm not even military, though my stepdad (for 51 years) is an Annapolis grad, as was his dad.

I can't imagine the DISGUST of anyone who served (who's not a Fox-bot) to see the shit this asshole is trying to pull.

[Mc Mike]

6. It's axiomatic. Acting with dishonor is the only way to act,

if the actor wants to be included on tRump's side.

[lark]

7. The price will be to further the right wing factions in the military.

Good guys will leave and bad guys will join and he'll have a more cohesive force to brutalize us with if he wins 2020.

[Marcuse]

9. trump was pro war crimes during the campaign. "They'll do it if I tell them to."

[link:http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/trump-asked-why-cia-drone-avoided-terrorists-family-report.html|]

“I would bring back waterboarding, and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,”
Sources: A Republican primary debate in New Hampshire
Subjects: Foreign Policy, Military, PolitiFact's Top Promises, Terrorism

[safeinOhio]

4. Pro Wrestling model for the military.

Trump will try to hit em over the head with a folding chair if they don't do as told.

[crazytown]

5. farce

[rpannier]

8. Read the whole article in Navy Times. This is the weirdest trial

It certainly isn't JAG the TV series

- It also ordered Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bob Burke to investigate the leadership and performance of the service’s Judge Advocate General Corps in the wake of a prosecution plagued by allegations of warrantless spying on defense lawyers and Navy Times; manipulating witness statements to Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents; using immunity grants and a bogus “target letter” in a crude attempt to keep pro-Gallagher witnesses from testifying; illegally leaking documents to the media to taint the military jury pool; and then trying to cover it all up when they got caught.

- Although military jurors credited Gallagher with time served in confinement, they recommended that the Navy demote him to petty officer first class. Under the services regulations, however, that conviction at a general court-martial proceeding coupled with a day behind bars could bust the highly decorated SEAL down to E-1.
Arguing that the minor photograph charge likely would netted Gallagher non-judicial punishment had it not been tied to a court-martial trial, the SEAL’s civilian attorney, Timothy Parlatore, urged Bolivar to defer that sanction and institute a lighter sentence that would preserve his anchors and let him retire quietly from the military after 20 years of service.
Dated Friday, a letter signed by Bolivar telegraphed a harsher outcome looming for the SEAL.
She suggested that factors such as witness intimidation, interference with the administration of justice, the effect of deferment on the good order and discipline on the command and Gallagher’s character could be considered and that Parlatore’s plea “fails to satisfy” those concerns.

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What a cluster this whole thing is

[SCVDem]

11. Drop The Charges!!!

I'm afraid I can't do that John.

The dishonor of the orange traitor has spread.

The services are more racist than during my 6 in the 70's.

Thanks tRump!

[murielm99]

12. Trump vilifies and abuses

a gold star family, and allows possibly criminal members of the military to walk away.

[Grins]

13. Not a first for the Navy...

The USS Shenandoah, the Captain of the USS Indianapolis, Nimitz and the hurricane in the Pacific, the USS IOWA - the Navy covers (or buries) its own.

Other services do also, but I think the Navy is the worst of them.