Saturday, April 4, 2020

COVID-19 and military whistleblowing (Captain Crozier's case)

Stephen M. Kohn
Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
Stephen M. Kohn, a nationally-known expert in the law of whistleblower protection, has written this National Law Review essay examining whether Captain Brett E. Crozier, commanding officer (until the other day) of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), is protected from retaliation. "Far from justifying the removal of Captain Crozier, Acting Secretary [Thomas B.] Modly's public justification for taking his unprecedented action against a Navy officer, who attempted to protect the lives of persons under his command, actually constituted admissions of wrongdoing."

The governing statute is the Military Whistleblower Protection Act.

What would TR himself have done? His great-grandson, Professor Tweed Roosevelt, has an inkling in The New York Times.
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  1. Eugene R. FidellApril 4, 2020 at 10:15 PM

    Peter Baker reports in The New York Times:

    At his briefing on Saturday, Mr. Trump likewise endorsed the firing of Capt. Brett E. Crozier of the Navy, who was removed from command of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt after sending his superiors a letter pleading for help for his virus-stricken crew. “He shouldn’t be talking that way in a letter,” the president said. “I thought it was terrible what he did.”

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