4/ "This is a real stretch by the administration," "very rare," "politically charged."

"It is hard to see it going forwards" because of First Amendment.

- Mick Wagoner, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel; military lawyer for 17 years

www.npr.org/2025/11/24/n...

3/ Pentagon’s investigation “absurd” and proposed charges “ridiculous.”

Senator Kelly was “reminding troops of their duty to follow the law and to not engage in illegal activities.”

- Kristine Huskey, Professor at University of Arizona law school and director of its Veterans’ Advocacy Law Clinic

2/

“I have no idea what they’d court-martial him for.”
“It’s preposterous.”

-- Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush

reporting by @gregjaffe.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

6) Plus CNN @natashabertrand.bsky.social's earlier reporting of moves inside the Pentagon.

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action

5) There's even more.

"Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department who had ... raised concerns about using lethal force against narcotraffickers had either left government or were reassigned or removed."

4) The CIA Americas and Counternarcotics Mission Center's lawyer "who questioned the use of lethal force against drug traffickers has been reassigned and replaced."

3/ The National Security Counsel's Legal Adviser Paul Ney (who earlier served loyally as Trump 1.0 Pentagon General Counsel) "had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes."

He was cast out in May.

2/ CIA Acting General Counsel, a career lawyer, "was among those who had raised questions about the legality of the agency’s use of lethal force."

What happened next?

CIA Deputy Director Ellis stepped in to become acting General Counsel and still hold his policy position. He then approved the ops.

2/ source (Ranking Member House Judiciary Committee @raskin.house.gov letter to AG Bondi)

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

4) I guess we'll have to update our newly updated Study, which we published at noon on November 20, 2025.

The study documents all cases of government noncompliance with court orders and cases of government misinformation provided to courts.

www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

3) "There's no way to sugarcoat it, it was in defiance of my order."

Judge Paula Xinis, November 20, 2025

2) "At some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that [U.S. Government] Defendants represent."

- Judge Sara Ellis, November 20, 2025

3/3 Link to Judge Cobb's decision overturning the president's deployment of the DC Guard to fight crime and use of out of states Guard forces:

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

2/3 What Judge Cobb wrote dovetails with Daniel Dale's fact check.

Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act

2/ "Federal officials appeared to be questioning whether Martin and Pulte divulged information about an ongoing criminal investigation of Schiff with people who were not authorized to be a part of it, according to a subpoena issued in the case and another person familiar with the interview."

Now this: "The Coast Guard said Thursday a Washington Post report that claimed it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols is 'categorically false.'"

thehill.com/policy/defen...