'Different spanks for different ranks': Lawmaker questions lack of courts-martial for Air Force...

This comes as news to someone?

It is interesting that the USAF has never court martialed a general officer.

And: It's not just the military that does this. As a federal contractor; if I handled government emails and classified information the way Hillary Clinton did; I would face federal prison time.

In my many years (17) of conducting felony-level criminal investigations, I found that the majority of enlisted perpetrators commit their acts between E1 and E5, whereas most of the officers commit their acts O1 through O6. General officers tend to have aides and sicafents willing to do their bidding. That doesn’t mean that GOs don’t commit criminal acts but rather they insulate themselves from those acts. They then use the “wrong outcome, wrong perpetrator” defense. They claim a subordinate, usually an O5 or O6, misunderstood the “commander’s desire” and the system got the wrong outcome and now the criminal investigators are chasing the wrong offender (GO) and should be chasing the the O5 or O6. GOs will throw a subordinate officer under the bus and hand you the keys. The more senior the GO, the more blatant. GOs tend to commit crimes involving few witnesses to the act, thus they turn into “he said, she said” witness to accused accounts. The biggest offenders in the officer ranks are tend to be O6s. Their looking for the first star and they’re willing to step over the bodies to get there. Percapita, this is a very small pool in any service and the offenders are an even smaller subgroup within the group. I have taken out and ended the careers of a dozen or more O6s. Most of their acts were so self-serving that if their crimes were made public DOD wide, members of that service would have to hang their heads in shame for having such a senior officer amongst them.

I was unaware of the stipulation that the UCMJ does not apply to General Officers. How silly of me. I thought we, as Officers, ascribed to the same Oath. Who knew?