This to me is the single biggest piece of circumstancial evidence that the military is acting independently where it counts. Obama failed to fire him when he was running things, then 4 years of all out lawfare during Trump's 1st term, and the General is still standing.
I'll bet you anything that Obama and Biden would have siezed on any opportunity to silence "The Man Who Knows Where the Bodies are Buried" once and for all, or at the very least get him back in front of a judge, where they could enforce a gag order against him. The Myanmar comments would have been the perfect chance to do so whether they actually had a viable case or not.
But that would require them to actually have control.
You can't court martial civilians.
He’s not a civilian, he is retired military. They can still be subject to court martial.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/the-prosecution-of-military-retirees-under-the-uniform-code-of-military-justice
No, only under specific criteria. I spent 24 years in. In order to fall under Courts Martial after retirement, you must transition into a reserve status. Even then, if some violation is committed, the violation must be dealt with at the lowest level possible in accordance with the UCMJ. Only in an egregious and felonious act against the United States would a Courts Martial even be put on the table and, even THEN, a last resort option.
Flynn used his 1st Amendment right to finger, factually, an issue. Not a Courts Martial offense.
Read the link you supplied in full. Pretty much lays all this out in legalese.
Thanks for helping draw the distinction. We are in weird territory when the actual lawyers and courts don’t apply the law appropriately and we are left to try to make sense of it here.
All good. Military vs Civilian confuses a lot of people and that's ok, some of it confuses even Military peeps. 😉👍
they already went after him in civilian court.
Thanks for the enlightenment! I was unaware.