{"id":198036,"date":"2007-12-19T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/19\/bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade-back-down-on-attempt-to-seize-control-of-jag-corps\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T02:28:00","slug":"bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade-back-down-on-attempt-to-seize-control-of-jag-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/19\/bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade-back-down-on-attempt-to-seize-control-of-jag-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and His Evil Minions&#038;trade Back Down on Attempt to Seize Control of JAG Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned how Bush was <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-to-muzzle-jag.html\">attempting to put political hacks in charge of the military&#8217;s legal corps<\/a>, one would assume that they were doing this because they have so completely f$%#ed up real trials, so they wanted false ones.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2007\/12\/19\/military_lawyers_stay_unbridled\/\">they have backed down<\/a>.  Reviews and promotions will be handled through the military chain of command, not through political hacks.  <\/p>\n<p>My guess is that a few dozen of the people involved with the Gitmo trials made it clear that they would resign their commissions if this went through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned how Bush was attempting to put political hacks in charge of the military&#8217;s legal corps, one would assume that they were doing this because they have so completely f$%#ed up real trials, so they wanted false ones. Today, they have backed down. Reviews and promotions will be handled through the military chain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1006,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-military","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}