I can’t believe Cruz is supporting changing a position as old as our nation that the command structure of our military units should have no say in how or if crimes in their units should be handled.
It is a terrible precedent.
If crimes were taken out of military hands and placed in civil courts hands, then we’d be having activist lawyers charging troops in the middle of battle.
Besides, a commander hears from the troops little tidbits of information that inform him/her what actually has taken place. If it’s a ‘they crawled into bed naked together, but then one cried rape’ the commander will hear it. THAT makes the commander a great arbiter of justice, whether some things EVER get to court.
Remember who outed Beau Bergdahl: It wasn’t the lawyers, it sure as hell wasn’t the president who had his hands all over everything but Mrs Bergdahl’s ass, and it wasn’t the media.
It was the MEMBERS OF BERGDAHL’S UNIT!
You listen to the troops on the ground. That’s the first rule of military justice.
"Change is coming. It's coming through Congress, and a great many of our colleagues say privately they're very, very close to supporting this," Cruz, who is running for president, said. "Change is coming in January 2017 when a new commander in chief will be sworn into office."
The article says some Senators want to take it out of the hands off the "Pentagon". What that means is "take it out of the hands of the local commander."
Then again, Cruz has never served a day of his life in the military. Can't expect him to really have a feel for this. In my mind, though, a commander-in-chief, like any commander, should walk among his troops and listen to THEIR arguments.
“I can’t believe Cruz is supporting changing a position as old as our nation that the command structure of our military units should have no say in how or if crimes in their units should be handled.”
He’s been a strong sponsor of this legislation since 2013, and voted in favor of it in 2013, 2014, and yesterday.