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"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

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"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Murdering Afghans Posed For Dozens Of Photos With Corpses And Body Parts, Records Show AP 2010

"I assume that these two soldiers had no idea that they were sailing in such shallow waters here," Fidell told HuffPost.

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"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Murdering Afghans Posed For Dozens Of Photos With Corpses And Body Parts, Records Show AP 2010

"We don't want the military, as such certainly, deeply involved in politics," Fidell told HuffPost in an interview Wednesday.

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"As I read the regulations, regardless of the moonlighting or whether they were being paid for it, they shouldn't have been there performing these functions in the course of a political campaign," said Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale Law School and is president of the National Institute of Military Justice.

Military Law Expert: Joe Miller's Private Guards Violated Government Regulations The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Eugene Fidell, a Yale law professor and president of the National Institute of Military Justice, said the activists' campaign could influence a military jury to be harsher on Mr. Manning.

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"The more he elects to be a poster child for Amnesty, the more likely he is to be hammered when it comes to sentencing," Mr. Fidell said.

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Fidell called the incident "a teachable moment," and a tribute to the importance of being aware and respectful of the limits that the government has put on the involvement of military personnel in politics.

Military Law Expert: Joe Miller's Private Guards Violated Government Regulations The Huffington Post News Team 2010

"It shows the importance of people turning square corners in terms of what the DoD Directive requires," Fidell said, "because you have untrained personnel performing a law enforcement function and not being able to exercise the kind of fine discriminating judgment that we expect of police officers."

Military Law Expert: Joe Miller's Private Guards Violated Government Regulations The Huffington Post News Team 2010