we ve got this story exclusively. it came to our attention today that the u.s. military has been asked by the justice department to please send them lawyers. specifically, to send them lawyers at the border. lawyers in the military are called jags, judge advocate generals. my dad was an air force jag. we can report tonight that the u.s. justice department has requested that the pentagon send active duty jags, active duty u.s. military lawyers to texas, arizona, and new mexico. to work as prosecutors for the justice department. special unprecedented six-month shifts as, quote, special assistant u.s. attorneys. the justice department has asked the pentagon to ship active duty military lawyers to the border to prosecute people picked up at the border, including parents who were having their kids taken away from them. we have never heard of anything like this before. but we can report tonight that the defense department has agreed to this, we think, unprecedented request from the departmen
training and then they ll get right in the courtroom. quote, the duration of the details, meaning the detail in the military sense, we re detailing you to the specific place, the duration of the details will be six months, assisting department of justice while we staff up with permanent assistant u.s. attorneys. the focus of this work will be violations of eight u.s. code sections 1325 and 1326. which is the statutes for crossing the border illegally. so, again, we obtained these e-mails today, which is the first indication we had seen anywhere that this was happening. active duty military lawyers being put on this? what? it s the first time we ve ever heard of the pentagon directing active duty military lawyers to instead go work for the justice department prosecuting normal domestic immigration cases. after we questioned the pentagon about these e-mails, which appeared to indicate this directive, the pentagon, in fact, confirmed to us tonight that this is happening. telling us, quote
now. we ve got this story exclusively. it came to our attention today that the u.s. military has been asked by the justice department to please send them lawyers. specifically, to send them lawyers at the border. lawyers in the military are called jags, judge advocate generals. my dad was an air force jag. we can report tonight that the u.s. justice department has requested that the pentagon send active duty jags, active duty u.s. military lawyers to texas, arizona, and new mexico. to work as prosecutors for the justice department. special unprecedented six-month shifts as, quote, special assistant u.s. attorneys. the justice department has asked the pentagon to ship active duty military lawyers to the border to prosecute people picked up at the border, including parents who were having their kids taken away from them. we have never heard of anything like this before. but we can report tonight that the defense department has
and we should be condemning that very strenuously. geoffrey, everything we re hearing about bergdahl, whether it be the circumstances leading up to his capture or his treatment by the taliban, you know, it all plays into one of two sides. either he is a hero or he is a deserter. how does the military welcome this guy back when there are essentially two-story lines out there? can they? well, i think we i think we see it happening. they follow the process that has been established. listen, the commanders and the military lawyers that are advising them in this process are absolutely devoted to complying with constitutional rights, to complying with the uniform code of military justice and regulations. and i don t think that these two issues are necessarily incompatible. he was an american soldier held by the enemy. we got him out, and we have an obligation to make sure that he is healthy and he is safe, and he can recover from this. if it turns out that he
states at least 34 of the 50 were involved somehow in representing or advocating for people caught up in this new basically fake justice system that the government invented under the bush administration. not to mention the best military lawyers in the country and constitutional lawyers in the country. when important matters of law are being debated, good lawyers get involved in those cases. and that is not a scandal nap is the way it s supposed to be. there was a little hiccup on that, though, in 2007. when this man at the time the deputy assistant for detainee affairs, he got a little carried away on a talk radio program in washington, d.c. his name was charles stimson. as a serving assistant secretary of defense he went on and suggested it was a scandal that lawyers were involved in these cases. that top lawyers were involved in litigating these new questions around prisoners and