The Army has begun hiring more agents and support staff for its criminal investigations, as the new civilian director works to correct widespread failures that surfaced last year after a string of murders and other crimes at Fort Hood, Texas.
There is no basis to conclude that a career military lawyer will be better insulated from pressures or more inclined to send challenging cases to trial, say the authors of this commentary.
By Army Maj. Jordan Stapley and Professor Geoffrey Corn
The priorities set forth in Biden's Fiscal Year 2022 discretionary budget request, which boosts the VA's budget by 8 percent, is a step in the right direction, says the author of this commentary.