Bradley Manning military trial: group petitions for a more open court

[jberryhill]

1. Denise Lind? The "communist"?

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2010/12/12/congress-communist-judge-denise-lind-violates-oath-of-office-congress-to-take-up-colonel-lakin-case/

Lakin is on trial for refusing to obey orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He challenged the orders because he questions President Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. His court martial is scheduled to begin Dec. 14.

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As reported earlier by WND, court martial judge Col. Denise Lind, however, simply declared the orders received by Lakin were valid. Lind refused to allow Lakin to address the underlying eligibility issues and limited the scope of the trial to whether Lakin had knowingly disobeyed orders.

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For those not familiar with the Lakin story, he is a birther who refused orders to deploy to Afghanistan, claiming that his orders were invalid because Obama did not personally answer his questions about whether he was a natural born US citizen.

He was sentenced to a year in Leavenworth, and stripped of rank and pension.