By David Gespass What we are now witnessing in Afghanistan is not just Biden’s fault. It certainly appears that the departure was bungled, but the failures in Afghanistan are bipartisan and go back more than forty years. They began with Jimmy Carter…Read More »
BY DAVID GESPASS Veteran civil rights activists often say, everything has changed and nothing has changed. That is the feeling anyone who was around when the Pentagon Papers were revealed gets when learning of the Washington Post’s discovery of what government and…Read More »
By David Gespass Donald Trump has put the issue of criminal behavior on the battlefield squarely before the world with his pardons of 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Matthew Golsteyn and his ensuring that Chief Edward Gallagher will retire as a…Read More »
BY DAVID GESPASS Donald Trump has put the issue of battlefield criminal behavior squarely before the world with his pardons of 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Matthew Golsteyn and his insuring that Chief Edward Gallagher will retire as a SEAL. It…Read More »
By David Gespass On May 17, 2017, Chelsea Manning walked out of Fort Leavenworth thanks to the commutation of her sentence by outgoing President Barack Obama. The seven years she spent in confinement were far less than the 35 she was sentenced…Read More »
The University of Arkansas Student Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild will present a talk by MLTF member David Gespass on November 18. The title of the talk is “When the Thin Blue Line Becomes Delta Force: Rights in the Crosshairs” and it will…Read More »
Curbing Convening Authority Power to Alter Court-Martial Convictions Is No Solution, Is Insufficient and Misses the Point By David Gespass There is no denying that “sexual assault” (a euphemism for rape and attempted rape) is a serious problem within the military. Indeed,…Read More »
NEW YORK — The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) today submitted comments to the Defense Department’s Military Justice Review Group as part of its comprehensive review of the military justice system. Recommendations to improve the system include eliminating the “convening authority” as the near-absolute…Read More »