A professor who has drawn criticism for an article calling some legal scholars treasonous has resigned his from the U.S. Military Academy a month after he was hired to teach a law course. Bradford argued that these academics should be considered enemy combatants and charged with treason and supporting terrorism. Perhaps you think the article was published in the satirical outlet The Onion, but not so, it was published in the National Security Law Journal, a journal run by students at the George Mason School of Law.

“The views in the article are exclusively those of Dr. Bradford and do not reflect those of the Department of Defense, the United States Army, or the United States Military Academy”, Lt. Col. Chris Kasker, a West Point spokesman, said Tuesday in a prepared statement. CLOACA members are thus combatants who, like all other combatants, can be targeted at any time and place and captured and detained until termination of hostilities.

This past spring the Journal made a mistake in publishing a highly controversial article, Trahison des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column, 3 Nat’l Sec. L.J. Even though these are civilian areas, they are areas where there is a “causal connection between the content disseminated and Islamist crimes incited”.

“Shocking and extreme as this option might seem, [dissenting] scholars, and the law schools that employ them, are – at least in theory – targetable so long as attacks are proportional, distinguish noncombatants from combatants, employ nonprohibited weapons, and contribute to the defeat of Islamism”, he added.

The article was not the only red flag on Bradford’s resume; he resigned from the Indiana School of Law in 2005 amid allegations that he lied about his military record. He claimed to have fought in Desert Storm, and be a recipient of the Silver Star award.

The paper, that later elicited an apology from the journal, brought attention to Bradford’s self-reported credentials. Research showed that Bradford had seen no active duty, was not in the infantry and was discharged as a second lieutenant. He claimed he had served in the infantry from 1994 to 2001 and been a major in the Special Forces.

Bradford said critics, like those who say the president should share power with Congress and the Supreme Court or who question the military’s broad authority to strike targets overseas, could be subject to prosecution – or be considered “legitimate” military targets themselves.

He calls himself an “associate professor of law, national security and strategy, National Defense University”.