Less than 24 hours after Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer was fired, CBS News would tape an interview with the ousted official to discuss the case of disgraced Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. Spencer was officially fired for directly communicating the White House without knowledge of the Secretary of Defense, which could be considered a breach of the chain-of-command and a fireable offense. His dismissal came after a prolonged effort by the president to nullify Gallagher’s court-martial process; this interference threatens the legitimacy of the entire military justice system. Most presidential tweetstorms and subsequent evening news parades can be ignored as another weekly scandal; this one cannot. The undermining of American military justice is woefully misguided and a threat to national security.
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Nicholas J. Romanow 