Mr. Galligan’s website now points to this CNN piece. The title of his posting is, “Army Attempts Last Minute Changes to Sanity Board.” The CNN piece makes several observations.

1. The defense objects to the timing.
2. The defense alleges this is an attempt to distract the defense from preparations.
3. The effort to do a review is generated, “after the defense said in court last month that it may introduce mental capacity evidence for consideration in the case — after previously saying it would not raise the issue of mental capacity or competency.” Mr. Galligan denies the statements.

He said he also objects to the military mental health professionals who make up the “sanity board” and would be charged with evaluating Hasan. The attorney said the current members of the board may not be objective, noting that one was on the faculty of the medical school while Hasan was a student there.

You will recollect a lot of consternation about what training Hasan received and a number of mental health professionals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have been dragged over the coals. So I suspect some concern on the part of Mr. Galligan may be justified.

A U.S. soldier accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan should face a court-martial on murder and other charges, an Army officer has recommended. The recommendation, included in a document obtained by CNN, comes after prosecutors laid out their evidence against Spc. Jeremy Morlock in a hearing last week. Morlock is one of five members of the Army’s 5th Stryker Brigade who have been accused of premeditated murder in a series of incidents between January and May. The recommendation goes to the brigade’s commander. It was contained in a document that summarized last week’s hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, an Army-Air Force installation outside Tacoma, Washington.

Who released the IO report?

Base officials would not confirm the authenticity of the document, which has not been publicly released.

You will recollect that we have the recent unauthorized (?) release of the Article 32, UCMJ, report in the Coast Guard boating tragedy.

Charles Keyes, “Father: Frustrated in trying to raise alarm about soldiers (sic)”

Winfield described to CNN’s Chris Lawrence his repeated attempts to warn the military about what was going on in the unit in which his son, Spc. Adam Winfield, was serving.

Mr. Winfield is a former Marine.

The father told CNN he reached out to an Army hotline and a member of Congress but was shunted to voice mail both times and never got a response. The father did speak to a staff sergeant at his son’s home base, the command center at Fort Lewis in Washington. He received what he described as a brushoff and was told his son should try to avoid the soldiers and wait until he cycled back to the United States.

In terms of contacts CNN reports:

The Army is investigating the call, CNN has learned, looking at who received Winfield’s warning of a possible war crime underway, and what happened to follow it up. “We take what the father says very seriously. We know for a fact that he did call, and phone records prove the first call to Fort Lewis headquarters lasted seven to eight minutes. The commander at Lewis-McCord started an immediate investigation. He also called Army CID (criminal investigation) as well, they’ve started a separate investigation into the calls,” an Army official said. Adam Winfield’s attorney Eric Montalvo said the Army inspector general also told Christopher Winfield that nothing could be done and that his son should lay low.

So what about the IG?

But spokesman Col. Thomas Collins said the Army has not yet found evidence that shows the elder Winfield called the Army inspector general. The Army inspected the phone records of the Winfield family, with their consent, and determined that Christopher Winfield mistakenly called the inspector general of another federal agency, not the inspector general of the Army, Collins said.

Question, assuming Mr. Winfield called the wrong IG, what IG did he call, what was he told, and what did that IG do in response to an obviously concerned parent?

Here’s a piece on ABC.

After an internal investigation, the Army has issued a statement saying that the parents of a soldier charged with murdering unarmed Afghans never called the Army’s inspector general. The Army acknowledges that Christopher and Emma Winfield did call several numbers at their son’s Army base in the U.S., and had an extended conversation with someone at the base’s command center, but says the Winfields failed to leave a message with the criminal investigations unit at the base.