FYI September 19, 2016

Tom Mashberg: Saving Lives Is Still His Mission
Dr. Donald H. Jenkins: “We went to war without a proper trauma system in place,” says Jenkins, a retired Air Force officer. “Once we implemented a fully resourced system in the field, despite the increase in injury severity over time, we were beating the odds by keeping soldiers alive.”

 

Gelnn Greenwald: WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)
…In the face of a growing ACLU and Amnesty-led campaign to secure a pardon for Snowden, timed to this weekend’s release of the Oliver Stone biopic “Snowden,” the Post editorial page today not only argued in opposition to a pardon, but explicitly demanded that Snowden — the paper’s own source — stand trial on espionage charges or, as a “second-best solution,” accept “a measure of criminal responsibility for his excesses and the U.S. government offers a measure of leniency.”