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"The Constitution matters. The truth matters. For the first time in all my years of service to our great nation, and at great peril to my career and future, I am choosing to disobey what I believe are illegal orders, including an order to deploy to Afghanistan for my second tour of duty there. I will disobey my orders to deploy because I and I believe all servicemen and women and the American people deserve the truth about President Obama's constitutional eligibility to the office of the presidency and the commander in chief.
"If he is ineligible, then my orders and indeed all orders are illegal because all orders have their origin with the commander in chief as handed down through the chain of command."
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney predicts the incoming Republican-controlled House of Representatives will launch an investigation if Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is convicted in next week's court martial.
It looks like he's not being treated fairly, said McInerney
It's important that he gets a fair trial, which means discovery. Since the Army will not allow that I believe in the final analysis that this will be overturned, but he may have to go to the slammer in Ft. Leavenworth."
I told [Dr. Lakin] that I probably would have advised him differently, but he really had a very important point. He is not a birther. He is a constitutionalist. Now, it shouldnt be the job of a lieutenant colonel flight surgeon in the U.S. Army to be the constitutionalist. Its the job of the Congress and the executive agency to do that. But, weve had 44 presidents of the United States, Peter, and only one, the current president, has not shown a valid birth certificate.
McInerney suggested Lakin is certain to be convicted if the court martial proceeds.
The outcome is evident to me that this is a slam dunk, said McInerney. They're not going to let him really talk about it. They're avoiding the issue.
The way they conduct themselves is going to be extremely important for the follow-on investigation for the House of Representatives, added McInerney, who said the House Armed Services Committee could hold hearings to determine whether the military handled the case properly.
The smartest thing the Army could do is not to have [the trial], said McInerney, who suggested the court should let the case go low profile.
I don't think they're going to do that. They're going to make the mistake of trying him, and then you're going to have a court of record that will condemn them for the way they conducted it.
McInerney held up his own treatment by the trial judge to illustrate the unfairness of the proceedings thus far. Lind has refused to allow McInerney or any other expert witness requested by the defense to testify at Lakin's court martial. She has also refused to permit Lakin to present any evidence or arguments in his own defense that might justify his decision to disobey orders.
The judge in this particular case said I do not know enough about the Army to be able to understand the Army's position on the Uniform Code of Military Justice, said McInerney, who added he once commanded an army division in Alaska as part of a joint Army-Air Force command.
I am intimately familiar with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, said McInerney. But you get a judge ... who says that I as a three-star general who had general court martial authority do not know enough about the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Dr. Terry Lakin is not going to get a fair trial in this particular proceeding.