How would evidence concerning Obama's birthplace exonerate Lakin from failure to obey the lawful orders of three superior officers? One has no bearing on the other.
Because an officer may not enforce an unlawful order. Just because his superiors agreed to issue the order to save their cowardly careers does not make the order lawful.
“How would evidence concerning Obama’s birthplace exonerate Lakin from failure to obey the lawful orders of three superior officers? One has no bearing on the other.”
Those who challenge Obama’s eligibility are not a unified front.
—some want to challenge the authenticity of any birth documents, count pixels, claim fakery, etc.
—others offer “proof” that Obama was born elsewhere, in Kenya.
—still others state that although a person can be native born, eg. in Hawaii, Obama is not NBC according to
Vattel.
November 2012 will come around before any of these avenues reaches a conclusion.
I think a civilian challenge has better odds, than a career officer risking his future without even knowing which of the three situations above is correct, or even that one of the three is correct.
You can’t base a legal defense in a military proceeding on a fishing expedition.