Could Michael Flynn be court-martialed for advocating a coup?
This is serious business. We’re talking about a retired three-star general who was President Donald Trump’s national security adviser and, before then, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The fact that he was fired from both of those high posts—from the White House for lying to the vice president, from the DIA for running the agency into the ground—doesn’t minimize the dangers of this appalling, reckless breach of the military’s most sacred commitment to obey lawful civilian authority.
Under Article 94 of the UCMJ, an officer is guilty of sedition if he or she “creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance,” while having the “intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority.” The officer can also be charged with sedition by simply “fail[ing] to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence.
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