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Major Hasan Gets to Keep His Beard. That’s Good.

December 5th, 2012

By Dan Miller Getting a clean conviction of Major Hasan is more important than whether he has a clean face. The court martial of Army Major Nidal Hasan, who murdered thirteen people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009 and wounded thirty-two others while screaming Allah Akbar, has dragged on too long. If he had been forcibly […]

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Tags: appeal, beard, court-martial, Fort Hood, Hassan, Islam, judge, terrorist
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Reminiscences of a Senescent Former JAG Officer

July 14th, 2010

By Dan Miller When I went away to college in 1959, I joined the Army ROTC because I was concerned about the probability of being drafted and preferred to serve eventually as an officer rather than as an enlisted man. I had no particular love of the Army, even though having lived for years in […]

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Tags: attorney, court-martial, JAG, judge, lawyer, military justice, U.S. Army
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A Conservative on McChrystal

June 28th, 2010

By Tom Carter Victor Davis Hanson, one of my favorite conservatives, wrote an article at Pajamas Media the other day presenting a fairly typical conservative view of the McChrystal debacle. Hanson makes it clear that Rolling Stone is a disreputable rag (not much argument there), and the free-lance reporter who wrote the story is a […]

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Tags: court-martial, Hanson, McChrystal, military justice, Rolling Stone, UCMJ
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McChrystal Should Be Charged

June 24th, 2010

By Tom Carter There’s a lot of reporting and commentary on the saga of General Stanley A. McChrystal. He and his staff allowed a free-lance journalist writing for Rolling Stone to spend an extended amount of time with them to gather information for a profile on the general. The article contains highly negative comments by […]

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Tags: Article 88, charges, court-martial, McChrystal, UCMJ
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