Many families of troops can tell you that flag officers and JAG interfered to get a guilty verdict when our troops were NOT guilty. Just check out Leavenworth! This is one of the reasons I counsel the young NOT to join our military! The enemy are among us and in our military too....big time in JAG....they are doing everything they can to demoralize and destroy our troops and military! This is one of the many ways they are doing it.

Twana

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/7/marine-corps-retreats-court-martial-charges-taliba/

 

By Rowan Scarborough

The Marine Corps has suddenly dropped criminal charges against an officer in the infamous Taliban urination video case, heading off what promised to be an embarrassing pre-trial hearing for the commandant on Wednesday.

 

Defense attorneys for Capt. James V. Clement had won a judge’s order, over objections from Marine prosecutors, for two staff attorneys to testify in open court about how senior commanders had interfered in the case to get a guilty verdict.

 

The lawyers also were seeking to question Gen. James Amos, the commandant, and wanted access to his private emails.

 

But the criminal case ended Friday when Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck, who heads Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., and was overseeing the prosecution, filed a brief court paper withdrawing the charges.

 

John Dowd, Capt. Clement’s principal defense counsel, had accused the commandant of engineering the largest case of unlawful command influence in the Corps‘ history.

 

“The withdrawal of the charges was another act of cowardice by the the commandant, his counsel and the the Judge Advocate Division of [Marine Corps headquarters] to cover up the worst case of unlawful command influence in the history of the Marine Corps, which was beginning next Wednesday to be uncovered in a hearing before the Chief Judge … on several motions to compel discovery,” Mr. Dowd said Saturday.

 

The defense attorney said he wanted to see email traffic between the commandant, his counsel and his legal division.

 

“That email traffic would have revealed that [the commandant] and his lawyers had engaged in a secret, corrupt effort to rig and control the investigations and dispositions of the so-called desecration cases until Capt. Clement refused to submit to a corrupt process [of being] charged with crimes he did not commit,” he said.

 

Capt. Clement’s defense counsel obtained a sworn statement from Lt. Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, who had been overseeing all urination cases as the convening authority. He told of a one-on-one meeting in 2012 with Gen. Amos in which the commandant said he wanted Marine defendants “crushed” via courts-martial.

 

Gen. Waldhauser went on to become Defense Secretary’s Chuck Hagel’s senior military adviser.

 

Citing that conversation, Capt. Clement’s attorneys accused the commandant of blatant unlawful command influence that denied their client a fair court-martial. They filed a motion to dismiss the charges, thus setting up a series of public pre-trial hearings on Gen. Amos‘ conduct to begin with Wednesday’s scheduled session.

 

Capt. Clement had been charged with dereliction of duty for not properly supervising Marines who urinated on Taliban corpses. A video of the act went viral on YouTube, drawing harsh criticism from the White House. He denies any misconduct.

 

Maj. James Weirick, a staff attorney at Quantico who was to testify on Wednesday, filed a complaint with the Pentagon inspector general over Gen. Amos‘ actions. An investigation is underway.

 

Gen. Amos, through an aide, later told Gen. Waldhauser he regretted his orders and decided to replace him.

 

A Marine spokesman said earlier this summer: “The commandant immediately realized that he had compromised the situation and took immediate action to ensure that the investigation and cases were given to an appropriate new convening authority who could exercise independent and unfettered discretion to take action in those cases.”

 

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  • I would not serve under Obama and the present US Government.

  • The only shortcoming I see in Capt Clement's handling of the issue is his failure to chew the asses of the marines for getting a picture taken.  If he did, then that should end it....

  • I just to talk to young people including my daughter in law into joining the military But now I try and talk them out of it and now when I talk to  people in the military I tell them I'm sorry and I'm glad I'm not in the Army anymore and that they should get out 

  • I put 30 years in the US Military.  I am glad I am not in today.  I do my best to talk young people out of joining.  People that are in, I try to talk them into getting out.

  • WE THE PEOPLE WANT THE MILITARY TO STAND UP AND HELP THE PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK THIS GOV. ( THEY THEM SELF'S WILL NOT SURVIVE WITH THIS GOV. )  OBAMA IS BUILDING HIS OWN MILITARY .

  • I would suggest that the Courts Martial go on, as these things have a way of awakening in the future to the detriment of the accused.

    An acquital is better than a charge hanging in the wind.

     

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  • Obama corrupts everything he is involved with!!  He and all of his ilk needs to be replaced with honorable men!!  The rank and file service members are still patriots for the most part!!  Get rid of the political correct yes men at the top and we will all be better off!!!

    • James, you are correct.  He corrupts & even polutes the air real Americans breath

  • He worked hard in his first term to discredit the Secret Service as well...purging ranks of true patriots.
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