America’s Senior Military Officers Must Be Held Accountable Under the Law

By Clint Lorance, Foreign Policy Analyst & former Army Officer February 11th, 2020

Each military service has its own court of criminal appeals. This is usually a panel of three uniformed field-grade officers in the rank of lieutenant colonel or colonel, and their job is to review the thousands of courts-martial convictions. They review cases for legal error, factual sufficiency, and sentence appropriateness.  Incredibly, a sitting member of congress, himself a former military judge, told me those courts are “check the block” and “have been for a long time.” 

In this case, though, the court stepped up and acted. I was surprised to see these sycophant Army officers do the right thing for once. Anyone who has served in the Army will tell you: senior officers are bureaucratic butt-kissers. The enlisted men and women, and the junior officers, are the ones who suffer.   The senior officers care about one thing and one thing only: their careers.......To Read More....