But the very effort to ensure the fairness of prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice depends on a principle that contributes to the protracted and confidential nature of such prosecutions: preventing command interference with the proceedings.
Having negotiated these deals from the team side for 10 years, I know the code of how this works: teams tell the agent that the deal terms remain confidential yet fully expect the agent to call his media contact of choice to spin it most positively.