Outside the Beltway

The trial judge had a conflict of interest.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

Can the commander-in-chief’s tweets be unlawful command influence?

In military justice Bizarroland, Rep Duncan Hunter intentionally commits “reverse UCI.”

A military judge has rejected a motion to dismiss the case against Bowe Bergdahl based on comments made by Donald Trump when he was a candidate for President.

Could Donald Trump’s comments about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on the campaign trail lead to the case against Bergdahl being dismissed? A military judge will have to decide.

In which I change my mind on an important topic.

There’s essentially no analogue in the civilian justice system. Here’s why.

The President’s well-intentioned campaign against military sex crimes has backfired.

Barring shocking developments, General Joe Dunford will be the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.