A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The declination is a rebuke of the administration’s efforts to paint the six lawmakers — all of whom served in either the military or intelligence services — as dangerously undermining the president’s authority as commander in chief.

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Good points. After reading Flyboys, my perspective on the situation in the Pacific and toward wartime Japan shifted dramatically.

    Still wish there could have been a viable alternative to targeting civilians, of any nation.