The Latest on Sinclair
Well, it looks like Jeffery A. Sinclair’s (presumably) high priced legal team is getting results. The Army has dropped one charge against him.
Sinclair is no longer charged with alcohol possession. Military prosecutors have agreed to drop that charge.
His defense team is also asking that the charges relating to porn possession be tossed. They’re claiming that others had access to the computer, and that the search “violated Sinclair’s First Amendment rights”.
Um, yeah. Somehow I don’t remember people serving in-theater on active duty having quite the same freedom to speak their mind and/or access sexually explicit materials as your typical civilian in CONUS. But maybe I’m wrong.
The other charges against Sinclair – including forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and adultery – remain in effect.
Stay tuned.
Category: Crime, Legal, Military issues
Still one of my favorite Duffel Blog pieces:
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/bg-sinclair-general-petraeus-allen-nothing-but-a-bunch-of-goddamn-amateurs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duffelblog+%28The+Duffel+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#ixzz2CUyvfK6h
And if it was an email attachment sent to him?
Porno in dempseys military includes women in swim suits. I guess I’d have to see it before I judged.
Like GENs Allen and Petraeus, “Another General taking orders from his Privates”
“They’re claiming that others had access to the computer, and that the search “violated Sinclair’s First Amendment rights”.”
All the prosecution would then have to do would be to show a printout of the training certificates that he had that were required training before he became the Designated Approval Authority for 82d.
Completion of that course is a written and signed acknowledgement that, not only are you validating the user agreement that you have to sign before you access your machine, but you are the ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY on those matters.
The only way someone else could access his machine downrange would be if his CAC was inside it and they knew his pin, which is an IA violation in and of itself.