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 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 »
MLTF co-founder David Gespass recently gave a talk at Tulane University. Here’s the slide presentation on the Bradley Manning case he used. He compares the current reaction to Manning to the COINTELPRO revelations in 1971. Hint: 2013 doesn’t stack up well. Note:…Read More »
An Op-Ed for MLTF by NLG President David Gespass The epic Bradley Manning prosecution – now involving two years of pretrial confinement during which the Constitution presumes him innocent while the administration, the Army and the media do all they can to…Read More »