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Will you introduce yourself and give the relevant disclaimer

to the conversation we're about to have?

Sure, thanks, Matt.

My name is Dan Maurer. I am an active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel Judge

Advocate Officer that is a military lawyer. Of course I'm speaking and writing only in my

personal capacity.

So what I'm going to say about this case

and its implications really have nothing to do

with any official position of the Jedi Corps,

the Army, Harbor Defense, or really any part of the government is just my own interpretation, my musings.

So I am on the tail end of my military career. I'm on the verge of retiring. I'm heading off this fall to become a civilian law professor of criminal law and various national security law subjects. I have been a prosecutor and a public counsel, general counsel to

commanders. I've advised on course marshals prosecutions. I've advised on law of

war matters international law. I've advised on Law of War Matters, International Law, two combat tours in Iraq.

One, the first one was as a platoon leader before law school.

Second one was as a general counsel, essentially a brigade judge advocate for a brigade commander in Iraq towards the end of that conflict.

I spent three years teaching constitutional law, criminal law, military justice, law of war at West Point.

And then the last two years I've been teaching at the Army JAG school, National Security subjects like poor crimes and

presidential power here in Charlottesville, Virginia.

So in other words, yeah, I was going to say, so you clearly have no idea what you're

talking about. We find some

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