MB> I don't know what oath's Snowden has taken. I do know that the UCMJ
MB> has a bit that only requires soldiers to obey "lawful commands" &
MB> "lawful orders".
MB>
MB> The excerpt of the UCMJ exists to deny the "only taking orders" defense.
True enough, but it doesn't speak to the "just following the law" defense,
in the case where a soldier might think that the law is wrong and should
not be followed.
(You may or may not think that about this law. But that's presumably what
Snowden thought -- that he was breaking the law, but that the law was so
immoral that it was better to break it than to obey it.)
-Josh ([email protected])
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