SECDEF GATES 2009 WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

"The hardest thing you may ever be called upon to do is stand alone among your peers and superior officers. To stick your neck out after discussion becomes consensus, and consensus ossifies into groupthink."

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Holder praises JAGs for work with terror suspects

"The speech touching on the service of the Judge Advocate General Corps came a day before a court deadline for the Obama administration to release all or parts of key Bush administration memos detailing which tough interrogation techniques were acceptable against terror suspects. Critics of the Bush administration say those tough techniques amounted to torture."

JAG HUNTER here:

The point is U.S. JAGs are more concerned protecting our enemies than JAGs and command racketeers are interested in protecting our own troops.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON