Saturday, December 18, 2010

Courage and Betrayal

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As reported here,  the government’s own witness–Lt. Campbell, kicked open the eligibility door when she testified before the Military Panel that she knew that LTC Lakin’s reason for refusing to deploy was the question of Obama’s eligibility.  While that could have opened the door to further questioning on this issue in a normal fair proceeding, recall that Judge Lind struck down any part of Lakin’s defense that would require proof of Obama’s eligibility.  Further, during Judge Lind’s questioning of Lt. Col. Lakin on his previous guilty pleas, she reminded him that his conscience was not a reason to disobey an order.
The prosecution, upon that little ‘slip’, immediately shut down that part of her testimony and re-focused her attention on the ” Roberts-directed order” to Lt. Col. Lakin to get on a specific plane flight. Conveniently, Col. Roberts–the Medal of Honor winner–was recalled to  “remember” that he had told Lt. Campbell to tell Lakin to get on ‘that’ plane.
How interesting that the defense did not pick up on, challenge or pursue that discrepancy in testimony. This was one of many small signals that a script was in play.
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