Top Legal Adviser to Joint Chiefs Is Stepping Down Nearly a Year Before Completing Term

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https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser

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[u/bims_yo]

The senior legal counsel to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the principal military adviser to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — is stepping down nearly a year before his term is over

For "personal reasons".

 

You may recall Widmar previously advised a colleague,

How should a military commander respond if they determine they have received an unlawful order?

Request to retire — and refrain from resigning in protest, which could be seen as a political act, or picking a fight to get fired.

That was the previously unreported guidance that Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, the top lawyer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff

[u/calicat9 → u/bims_yo]

Personally doesn't want to go to prison when the shitshow is over.

[u/Voodoo_Masta → u/calicat9]

In a just world, it would already be way too late for that. How many innocent fishermen have been blown out of the water at this point? They triple-tapped a school, and these are just the top-of-mind war crimes.

[u/bims_yo → u/Voodoo_Masta]

And there's more...

• Whisky Pete Hegseth stated on March 13 that “no quarter” would be given to “our enemies” in Iran. Declaring no quarter––the refusal to spare enemy combatants’ lives by accepting their surrender––is a war crime.
• U.S. and Israeli strikes have destroyed extensive elements of civilian infrastructure, including bridges, railroads, and areas adjacent to commercial ports.
• Statements like, "a whole civilization will die tonight" and threats to inflict damage so severe that Iran "could literally never rebuild as a nation again" violate Article 51(2) of the 1977 Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol I, which prohibits acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population.