“If you order the private to report for duty and he refuses, then he will be. The military takes a dim view of members who decide for themselves what orders are lawful and what are not. Don’t believe me? Google Micheal New or Ehren Watada and see what happens.”
Absolutely. But George Bush, Bill Clinton and DOD did not exert improper command influence to short circuit the court martial of those two. I am certain Hussein and/or his top level associates took action to have Stefan Cook’s orders changed. Hussein will NOT chance that a judge will allow the discovery motions that Cook’s or Rhodes legal defense might require.
He is too much of a punk ass coward to roll that dice.
Want to bet? Discovery is not an open-ended fishing expedition. The defense will have the right to request subpoenas of information they deem necessary to their case, but the court has to sign off on them. Captain Rhodes may claim that Obama's birth certificate is vital to their case but the chances of the court agreeing with that hover somewhere between zilch point sh*t and none. There are enough layers of command involved that if Rhodes get's court martialled then she'll get convicted and Obama will never even enter in to it.