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pipistrelle wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:26 pm I have fabulous internet but I prefer a text version because my hearing isn't great but more than that I can read faster than I can sit through a video.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-28/ ... /101812040

The federal government has approved a request from Washington to extradite a former US marine pilot.

Key points:

Daniel Duggan has renounced his US citizenship and was living in Orange when he was arrested
His family has started a petition describing the case as "politically motivated"
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus had until Christmas Day to decide whether to approve the request
Daniel Duggan was arrested in the New South Wales Central West in October, the same week the British government issued a rare warning about China's recruitment of retired military pilots.



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The matter will return to court in January
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Sexual assaults at US military service academies at highest rate on record

Incidents of sexual assault at US military service academies were at the highest rate on record in the 2021-2022 academic year, according to a new report released on Friday.

There was an 18% increase in reported sexual assaults across the three academies in 2021-2022 compared to the the 2017-2018 academic year, according to the Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies. There were also 13% more women and 4% more men at the academies who were sexually harassed during the year than in 2017-2018.

“Our numbers indicate that this is the highest sexual assault estimated prevalence rate for both women and men at the military service academies since the department started measuring in 2006,” Beth Foster, executive director of the Office of Force Resiliency, told reporters on Friday. “These numbers are extremely disappointing and upsetting. I mean, there’s really no other way to see it.”

In a memo to the military service secretaries on Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin echoed that concern and described the new numbers as “an alarming increase” in assault, harassment, and “other concerning behaviors.”

“I expect you to reverse the harmful trends at our [military service academies],” Austin said. “Now is the time to employ the resources with which we have been entrusted and advance our common way forward.”

In total, the Pentagon estimates that 1,136 men and women at the service academies were assaulted, while 3,939 experienced some form of sexual harassment.

There was an increase among all three types of unwanted sexual contact that the department observes, including penetration, attempted penetration, and unwanted touching, Dr. Ashlea Klahr, the director of Health and Resilience Research at the Department of Defense, told reporters on Friday. Alleged sexual offenders were most often fellow students of the victim, which is consistent with reports from years past; assault is most often happening on-campus, followed by off-campus social events, she said.

The report also found “significant declines” in students’ perception of efforts from academy leaders to prevent assault and harassment: 59% of women trusted academy leadership compared to 72% in the 2017-2018 school year, and 76% of men trusted academy leadership compared to 83%.

The prevalence report that was supposed to be released in 2020 was not conducted because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In his memo on Friday, Austin directed the department to take a number of actions in an effort to curve the trend, including conducting on-site evaluations of the academies, with results being briefed by the academy superintendents no later than July 21 this year and issuing policies that will separate victims and alleged perpetrators in class and mandatory activities.

“Our future leaders are counting on you,” Austin concluded in his memo. “We must lead the change we require.”
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I wonder if there truly is an increase, or just people are more willing to report incidents of assault and harrassment?
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jez wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 5:30 pm I wonder if there truly is an increase, or just people are more willing to report incidents of assault and harrassment?
And I wonder why the military can't seem to get a handle on it. But yeah, I think more people are reporting it, too.
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Nearly 300,000 women served during the Iraq War. Two decades later, they remain ‘the invisible veterans.’
The increase in women soldiers, and the visibility of their service, led to policy changes over the next 20 years.


Christina Schauer deployed to Baghdad in March 2003 during her sophomore year in college. At age 20, Schauer was part of an 800-member reserve battalion that consisted mainly of engineers, truck drivers, mechanics and a handful of medics like herself, tasked with building up the military bases that are there now. About 10 percent were women, she said.

“I joined the military knowing that this was a possibility, but it was surreal,” said Schauer, who had enlisted during peacetime in 1999 to help pay for college and nursing school.

For the first couple of weeks, Schauer said, they didn’t have tents. They slept outside their trucks and held up curtains when people needed to shower. It took months to set up tents, flooring, electricity and eventually air-conditioning. During her year in Iraq, Schauer said she faced gunfire, exploding mortars and the constant threat of violence. Whether they were gunners or truck drivers, men and women alike engaged in combat roles — something that became far more commonplace in the conflict.

“I don’t think people think of women serving those types of roles in the military,” said Schauer, who now leads a military and veteran health care program at a community hospital in Dubuque, Iowa.

In the 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq, over a quarter of a million women have served there, the largest-scale and most visible deployment of women in U.S. history. More than 1,000 women had been injured in combat and 166 killed as of 2017, according to the Service Women’s Action Network. The capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch made headlines early in the war, and women were among the service members named in the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. The United States formally withdrew its combat forces in 2011, but maintains a military presence.

The increase in women soldiers, and the visibility of their service, was integral to the military’s mission and ultimately led to major policy changes like the removal of ground combat restrictions for women. Still, according to experts, many women veterans of the Iraq War remain invisible and unrecognized among the larger American public.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1994 as part of the first class of women eligible for combat on ships. Congress repealed the law banning women from combat aviation and on ships in 1991 and 1993, respectively. The Navy wouldn’t reverse the policy barring women from submarines until 2010.

When she was still a naval cadet, Sherrill said she and other cadets — including several other women — were deployed on a ship that only had enlisted men on it. After some “weird interactions,” Sherrill learned that the enlisted men had been told not to talk to the women because it would be “nothing but trouble.”

In Iraq, however, Sherrill said that women service members took on some of the more dangerous roles, gathering intelligence and clearing homes of suspected militants. It became clear as the conflict dragged on that the U.S. military needed to engage with Iraqi women, a job only possible with women specialty combat squads — called Lioness Teams. These women Marines and soldiers were encouraged to emphasize their femininity, instructed to take off their helmets, let their hair down and talk about their families or relate to Iraqi women on a more personal level in a way that would have been culturally objectionable if a man had been sent to interview them.

“The front lines are no longer as cleanly delineated in war as they had been in the past,” Sherrill said. The changes put women in places with more responsibility and risk, but often in a way that wasn’t reflected in record-keeping, housing and careers. “So you often had women being deployed to places that technically were combat positions or were deployed on submarines where they weren’t included in the official ship’s company of submarines. Women were serving in all kinds of combat roles; however, they weren’t given the billets, the credit or the promotions that often came with those roles. It was always done in this sort of jerry-rigged way.”

In 2013, Congress announced the repeal of the combat exclusion policy, though it wasn’t implemented until 2015.

“After years of fighting in Iraq, you finally saw an acknowledgment that these restrictions were sort of in name only and really punitive to women service members,” Sherrill said.

In addition to the repeal of the women in combat exclusion, several other major policy changes have been enacted in recent years, influenced in part by the growing visibility of women in the military — and by women veterans who pursued government service in the civilian world. Congress mandated in 2020 that the Marine Corps Recruit Training be gender integrated; the pink tax on military uniforms was eliminated in 2021; and women’s military uniforms continue to evolve. And as part of the latest National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, the military authorized increased funding to support military families and reformed how sexual assault and harassment cases were handled in the military justice system.
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US air force general convicted of abusive sexual contact losing ranking on retiring
William ‘Bill’ Cooley, the first general to face a military trial, will end his career on Thursday as a colonel

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Thu 1 Jun 2023 10.00 BST

A two-star US air force general convicted last year of abusive sexual contact for forcing his sister-in-law to kiss him will lose his rank on retiring, officials said.

William “Bill” Cooley was a major general but will end his career on Thursday as a colonel, officials said. The statement said the air force “expects its leaders to embody our core values and holds them accountable if they fall short of expectations”.

Cooley became the first general in the 76-year history of the US air force to face a military trial, after prosecutors accused him of drinking heavily at a barbecue with relatives in New Mexico in 2018, then trying to force himself on his brother’s wife.

News of Cooley’s demotion comes about a month after the Pentagon found military sexual assault reports increased about 1% during the last fiscal year. Protect Our Defenders, an organization which helped Cooley’s accuser press her case, said her success in holding accountable a high-ranking military leader was an “all too rare” outcome.

“There has been a perception and reality within our armed forces that the application of justice is different depending on your rank or race,” said Josh Connolly, senior vice-president of Protect Our Defenders. “Our service members deserve a justice system that treats everyone equally under the law and is blind to rank or race – we are still a long way from that.”

During a trial at Wright-Patterson air force base in Ohio in April last year, prosecutors outlined how the woman drove Cooley to his parents’ home to pick up some belongings after the cookout. He attempted to place her hand on his crotch and pushed her into a car window. Cooley then groped the woman’s breasts and genitals in what prosecutors argued was an attempt to satisfy a years-long desire.

The prosecution established that Cooley wrote an apology to his sister-in-law and brother, expressing how “his own selfish ego” hurt them. Cooley also sent emails to himself containing a confession but deleted them, prosecutors added.

Cooley was fired as commander of the research lab at Wright-Patterson in January 2020, after the woman reported him to his commanders. Military prosecutors filed abusive sexual contact charges. Cooley maintained his innocence and opted to face a judge rather than a jury.




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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-01/ ... /102422952

Justice Besanko's full reasons for making his judgement are yet to be released, but he found some serious claims made in the articles, published in 2018, had been substantiated, including:

That Mr Roberts-Smith murdered an unarmed man, named Ali Jan, by kicking him off a cliff in Afghanistan and procuring soldiers under his command to shoot him
That Mr Roberts-Smith broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement and is therefore a criminal
That he committed murder by pressuring an inexperienced SAS trooper to execute an elderly, unarmed Afghan to "blood the rookie"
That he committed murder by machine gunning a man with a prosthetic leg
That he was so callous and inhumane that he took the prosthetic leg back to Australia and encouraged other soldiers to use it as a novelty beer-drinking vessel
That while, as deputy commander of an SAS patrol in 2009, he authorised the execution of an unarmed Afghan by a junior trooper
That during a deployment in 2010, he bashed an unarmed Afghan in the face and kneed him in the stomach, alarming two patrol commanders who ordered him to back off
That, as patrol commander in 2012, he authorised the assault of an unarmed Afghan who was in custody and posed no threat
That he engaged in a campaign of bullying against a small and quiet soldier named Person 1, which included threats of violence
That he assaulted an unarmed Afghan in 2012
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Dave from down under wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:32 pm https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-01/ ... /102422952

Justice Besanko's full reasons for making his judgement are yet to be released, but he found some serious claims made in the articles, published in 2018, had been substantiated, including:

That Mr Roberts-Smith murdered an unarmed man, named Ali Jan, by kicking him off a cliff in Afghanistan and procuring soldiers under his command to shoot him
That Mr Roberts-Smith broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement and is therefore a criminal
That he committed murder by pressuring an inexperienced SAS trooper to execute an elderly, unarmed Afghan to "blood the rookie"
That he committed murder by machine gunning a man with a prosthetic leg
That he was so callous and inhumane that he took the prosthetic leg back to Australia and encouraged other soldiers to use it as a novelty beer-drinking vessel
That while, as deputy commander of an SAS patrol in 2009, he authorised the execution of an unarmed Afghan by a junior trooper
That during a deployment in 2010, he bashed an unarmed Afghan in the face and kneed him in the stomach, alarming two patrol commanders who ordered him to back off
That, as patrol commander in 2012, he authorised the assault of an unarmed Afghan who was in custody and posed no threat
That he engaged in a campaign of bullying against a small and quiet soldier named Person 1, which included threats of violence
That he assaulted an unarmed Afghan in 2012

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Wager thought him too high risk
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RTH10260 wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:39 am
US air force general convicted of abusive sexual contact losing ranking on retiring
William ‘Bill’ Cooley, the first general to face a military trial, will end his career on Thursday as a colonel

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Thu 1 Jun 2023 10.00 BST

A two-star US air force general convicted last year of abusive sexual contact for forcing his sister-in-law to kiss him will lose his rank on retiring, officials said.

William “Bill” Cooley was a major general but will end his career on Thursday as a colonel, officials said. The statement said the air force “expects its leaders to embody our core values and holds them accountable if they fall short of expectations”.

:snippity:

During a trial at Wright-Patterson air force base in Ohio in April last year, prosecutors outlined how the woman drove Cooley to his parents’ home to pick up some belongings after the cookout. He attempted to place her hand on his crotch and pushed her into a car window. Cooley then groped the woman’s breasts and genitals in what prosecutors argued was an attempt to satisfy a years-long desire.

:snippity:

Cooley was fired as commander of the research lab at Wright-Patterson in January 2020, after the woman reported him to his commanders. Military prosecutors filed abusive sexual contact charges. Cooley maintained his innocence and opted to face a judge rather than a jury.
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UK village marks 80th anniversary of fight against US Army racism in World War II

BAMBER BRIDGE, England (AP) — The village of Bamber Bridge in northwestern England is proud of the blow it struck against racism in the U.S. military during World War II.

When an all-Black truck regiment was stationed there, residents refused to accept the segregation ingrained in the U.S. Army. Ignoring pressure from British and American authorities, pubs welcomed the GIs, local women chatted and danced with them, and English soldiers drank alongside men they saw as allies in the war.

But simmering tensions between Black soldiers and white military police exploded on June 24, 1943, when a dispute outside a pub escalated into a night of gunfire. Private William Crossland was killed and dozens of soldiers from the truck regiment faced court martial. When Crossland’s niece learned about the circumstances of her uncle’s death, she called for a new investigation to uncover how he died.

The community has chosen to focus on its stand against segregation as it commemorates the 80th anniversary of what’s now known as the Battle of Bamber Bridge and America reassesses its past treatment of Black men and women in the armed forces.

“It’s a sense of pride that there was no bigotry towards (the soldiers),” said Valerie Fell, who was just 2 in 1943 but whose family ran Ye Olde Hob Inn, the 400-year-old thatched-roof pub where the conflict started. “They deserved the respect of the uniform that they were wearing.''

EXPORTING SEGREGATION

Black soldiers accounted for about 10% of the American troops in Britain during the war. Serving in segregated units led by white officers, most were relegated to non-combat roles such as driving trucks. U.S. authorities tried to extend those policies beyond their bases, asking pubs and restaurants to separate the races.

Bamber Bridge, then home to about 6,800 people, wasn’t the only place to resist. In a country then almost entirely white, there was no tradition of segregation.

What’s different about it was the desire of local people to preserve their story, said Alan Rice, co-director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire.

“If you’re fighting fascism, which these people were, it’s ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous, that the U.S. Army (were) encouraging a form of fascism — segregation,” Rice said.

THE BATTLE OF BAMBER BRIDGE
Despite their friendships with the GIs, villagers weren’t able to head off the violence when Black soldiers, frustrated by their treatment and angry about race riots in Detroit, faced off with military police outfitted with batons and sidearms.

On that hot June night, Private Eugene Nunn was sitting at the Hob Inn bar when a white military police officer threatened to arrest him for wearing the wrong uniform. British soldiers and civilians intervened.

“Everyone was saying, ‘Leave him alone. He just wants a drink. It’s a hot day,’’’ Fell said as she recounted her mother’s story. “People just didn’t understand this viciousness.’’

When Nunn left the pub, the police were waiting. Tempers rose. A bottle smashed against the windshield of the police Jeep. Things escalated and it wasn’t until 4 a.m. that order was restored.

Military authorities sought severe penalties — 37 Black soldiers were charged with mutiny, riot and unlawful possession of weapons. Some 30 received sentences of between three and 15 years in prison, combined with loss of pay and dishonorable discharges. As the allies prepared for D-Day, many had their sentences shortened so they could be cycled back into the war effort.

While the court martial criticized the white officers for poor leadership, no records indicate they or the military police were disciplined.

But the broader story is that senior generals, focused on improving morale and performance, quickly ordered changes in the treatment of Black troops. Many of the officers commanding Black units were replaced and the army deployed more racially mixed police patrols.

Aaron Snipe, the spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in London, said he couldn’t prejudge any military decision, but President Joe Biden’s administration has shown a willingness to “right the wrongs of the past.”

Earlier this month, the U.S. Navy issued a formal apology to the families of 15 Black sailors who were dishonorably discharged in 1940 after complaining that they were forced to wait tables.
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There's been a major shakeup at a veterans charity founded to honor the Montford Point Marines - three top officials were caught faking or exaggerating their own military records and awards. Here's the full story on this case of stolen valor: https://abc7ne.ws/44etrn3

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A Spelling Mistake Is Causing Thousands of Sensitive Pentagon Documents to Be Leaked to a Russian Ally
The emails are intended for the military's .MIL domain, but they have been misdirected to .ML, the country identifier for Mali

More than 100,000 U.S. military emails containing sensitive information on personnel, travel itineraries, and financial records this year have been leaked to a Mali-based domain all because of an apparent typo.

The emails are intended to reach the military's .MIL domain, but have instead flowed into addresses ending with .ML -- the country identifier for Mali, the Financial Times reported.

Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur contracted to oversee Mali's national domain, told the FT he first noticed the issue about a decade ago, and has seen millions of the misaddressed emails pour into the .ML domain.

He has recorded more than 117,000 emails since January as he continues to push U.S. officials to take a serious look at the problem.

Mali's government -- which has close ties to Russia -- is expected to take control of the .ML domain on Monday when Zuurbier's 10-year contract expires. Malian officials did not respond to the Times' requests for comment.

“This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the U.S.," Zuurbier wrote in a letter to the U.S. officials this month.
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Nul problemo!

All emails will carry the threat to discard the email if you are not the intended recipient! Or else ... :blackeye:


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I kinda wonder if the military knows and feeds our Russian friends disinformation.
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But do any of the Emails contain the letter C?
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You meant to ask, does Hillary have an email server in ... ;)
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Well this is disheartening.
The military ordered big steps to stop extremism. Two years later, it shows no results
USA TODAY identified 20 reforms proposed by Defense secretary and a group he assigned to the task. Today, many steps are stalled or inactive, and the most important reforms never happened.

More than two years ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin launched a sweeping initiative − triggered by the Jan. 6 insurrection − to root out the threat of extremism across the United States armed forces.

But today, the military has almost nothing to show for its efforts, a USA TODAY investigation has found. Most steps in the process are stalled or inactive, and the reforms experts said were most important haven’t happened.

The proposed policy changes aimed to confront extremism before, during and after military service by:
  • Diverting extremists from the recruiting process with tougher questions and screening for warning signs such as white supremacist tattoos.
  • Creating an investigative unit to weed out potentially dangerous extremists in the ranks.
  • Building an education initiative to teach veterans about the extremist groups that court them and severing the long-known and often deadly veteran-to-extremist pipeline.
Instead, today the military offers almost no answers about what has actually happened. Even a crucial internal study on the scope of the military’s extremism problem has never been released, despite being ordered by Austin himself and completed more than a year ago, USA TODAY has confirmed.
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Disheartening, but not surprising. The military already had pretty tough policies in place to combat extremism (I’ve defended more than one person charged with violating those policies).

One problem is that the policies are walking a constitutional tightrope - even military members have first amendment rights, so a lot of conduct that is completely undesirable is also constitutionally protected.

Another problem is that the extremists know how to keep their extremism on the downlow. Most are reasonably sophisticated in how they communicate with each other, and they know how to associate with each other without getting caught. That’s where my clients invariably failed - they blabbed to the wrong people.

I’m not saying that the DoD should just throw up its hands. But it is a difficult, in not entirely intractable, problem.
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Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction got overturned in federal court.

The military judge (who was very experienced and should have known better) failed to inform Bergdahl that he had an application in for a job as an immigration judge (and that he used as a writing sample a ruling he had written earlier in the Bergdahl case denying something Bergdahl wanted). IIRC, this issue was litigated in the military appellate courts, and they were like, yeah, no biggie because Bergdahl pled guilty and got a slap on the wrist from the judge. I also thought at the time that was right.
Edit: In case it wasn’t clear (I’m a little addled today), the issue is that the military judge was biased in favor of the government, and the federal district court held that the appearance of bias put an intolerable strain on the public perception of the military justice system.
We’ll see if the government appeals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/us/p ... ticleShare
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Maybenaut wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:15 pm Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction got overturned in federal court.

The military judge (who was very experienced and should have known better) failed to inform Bergdahl that he had an application in for a job as an immigration judge (and that he used as a writing sample a ruling he had written earlier in the Bergdahl case denying something Bergdahl wanted). IIRC, this issue was litigated in the military appellate courts, and they were like, yeah, no biggie because Bergdahl pled guilty and got a slap on the wrist from the judge. I also thought at the time that was right.
Edit: In case it wasn’t clear (I’m a little addled today), the issue is that the military judge was biased in favor of the government, and the federal district court held that the appearance of bias put an intolerable strain on the public perception of the military justice system.
We’ll see if the government appeals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/us/p ... ticleShare
I read that earlier today, and I'm sure you'll ream me for it, but I think the reason for overturning is a bunch of malarky. I saw nothing that indicated because he applied for another job that he then was biased because of that simple fact, which to me is ludicrous. I don't see where disclosure was necessary or would have made one bit of difference.

I also doubt he'll be retried, so there's that.

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realist wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:55 pm
I read that earlier today, and I'm sure you'll ream me for it, but I think the reason for overturning is a bunch of malarky. I saw nothing that indicated because he applied for another job that he then was biased because of that simple fact, which to me is ludicrous. I don't see where disclosure was necessary or would have made one bit of difference.

I also doubt he'll be retried, so there's that.

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No reaming from me. Even if the military judge erred in failing to disclose , I don’t think Bergdahl was harmed by it. The set aside *both* the conviction and the sentence.

With respect to the conviction, the notion that Bergdahl would not have pled guilty or would have insisted on a different judge for the guilt phase if he had known about Nancy’s application is rediculous.

With respect to the sentence, he got a slap on the wrist. In that regard, you have to be careful what you ask for. There is caselaw in the military that says if you get re-sentenced, the new sentence can’t be any harsher than the original sentence. In theory, Bergdahl could get retried and resentenced and a new military judge could decide not to sentence to a dishonorable discharge and sentence him to jail time instead. There’s not a formula for how much jail time a dishonorable discharge is worth, but two years have been approved.

But I agree, he probably won’t be retried.
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Maybenaut wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:32 pm But I agree, he probably won’t be retried.
Is there a statute of limitations on the offense? i.e., if the current administration passes on retrying him, could a hypothetical GOP next-administration make a shot at it?
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