Trump pardons war criminal
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Trump Tells Allies He Wants Absolved War Criminals to Campaign for Him
Fallout from the clemency cost the Navy secretary Richard Spencer his job, but a former Pentagon deputy chief backs the ousted official.
Despite military and international backlash to Trump’s Nov. 15 clemency—fallout from which cost Navy Secretary Richard Spencer his job on Sunday—Trump believes he has rectified major injustices. Two people tell The Daily Beast they’ve heard Trump talk about how he’d like to have the now-cleared Clint Lorance, Matthew Golsteyn, or Edward Gallagher show up at his 2020 rallies, or even have a moment on stage at his renomination convention in Charlotte next year. Right-wing media have portrayed all three as martyrs brought down by “political correctness” within the military.
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More wasted time and money... once again initiated by a California House Representative.
Its stupid. What's she hope to accomplish with this? Really?
Speier to call on IG investigation into Navy chief's firing
By Rebecca Klar - 11/26/19 08:59 AM EST
© Greg Nash
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is calling for the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate the termination of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, following the top Navy official’s recent ouster.
“We've had our disagreements, but I am still distressed to see Sec. Spencer dismissed in the wake of @POTUS's efforts to subvert the military justice system. I will be calling on the DOD Inspector General to investigate and determine the circumstances of his termination,” Speier tweeted Tuesday.
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"I will be calling on the DOD Inspector General to investigate and determine the circumstances of his termination"
The dude already said he resigned, forced(?), on his principles. Case closed.
Do these people get any effing work done?
Its stupid. What's she hope to accomplish with this? Really?
Speier to call on IG investigation into Navy chief's firing
By Rebecca Klar - 11/26/19 08:59 AM EST
© Greg Nash
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is calling for the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate the termination of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, following the top Navy official’s recent ouster.
“We've had our disagreements, but I am still distressed to see Sec. Spencer dismissed in the wake of @POTUS's efforts to subvert the military justice system. I will be calling on the DOD Inspector General to investigate and determine the circumstances of his termination,” Speier tweeted Tuesday.
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"I will be calling on the DOD Inspector General to investigate and determine the circumstances of his termination"
The dude already said he resigned, forced(?), on his principles. Case closed.
Do these people get any effing work done?
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/783515686/navy-lets-accused-seals-stay-in-elite-unit
Navy Lets Accused SEALs Stay In Elite Unit; Fired Navy Secretary Slams Trump
"Shocking and unprecedented," that's how ousted Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer describes President Trump's intervention in the Navy SEALs Trident scandal. Spencer was fired this week over the controversy.
He made his comments Wednesday in an op-ed published in The Washington Post. Spencer says Trump called him twice over the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher. Gallagher was charged with multiple crimes including killing a wounded ISIS fighter but was convicted only of a lesser offense of posing with the corpse of that captive.
President Trump ordered Gallagher moved out of the brig while awaiting trial. Later the president overturned his demotion after his conviction.
Spencer who'd been the Navy Secretary since 2017 questioned the commander in chief's intervention in a "low-level" disciplinary action against a service member.
"The president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices," Spencer writes in the Post.
Navy cancels review of others in war crimes case
In a new development, the Navy is canceling a review hearing for three other SEALs implicated in the Gallagher war crimes case. The move allows Lt. Jacob Portier, Lt. Cmdr. Robert Breisch and Lt. Thomas MacNeil to keep their coveted Trident pins, which symbolize their membership in the elite SEALs unit. Thomas Modly who became acting secretary of the Navy this week said in a statement that neither the Navy nor the SEALs... "deserve the continued distraction and negative attention that recent events have evoked."
Modly's announcement follows Trump's declaration on Twitter that the Navy would not be taking away Gallagher's Trident pin.
Spencer while still secretary of the Navy chose not to interpret that tweet as a direct order. He scheduled a review hearing that could have led to Gallagher's removal from the SEALs. In response Spencer was ousted from the top post in the Navy.
The need for military discipline
Janessa Goldbeck, a Marine veteran with the Truman National Security Project says taking this case out of the hands of commanders sends a message to others in the military.
"A review board of SEALs is the appropriate next step," Goldbeck says of the Navy's decision to suspend the review hearing of Portier, Breisch and MacNeil. "It's disappointing to see the president undermine his leadership in this way."
Former Navy Secretary Spencer says in his op-ed that military discipline works best when senior leadership stays out of it.
"Our system of military justice has helped build the world's most powerful navy; good leaders get promoted, bad ones get moved out, and criminals are punished," Spencer writes.
He adds that ethical conduct and the military justice system that enforces it are hallmarks of the U.S. military.
"We are effective overseas," Spencer says. "Not because we have the best equipment but because we are professionals."
More wasted time and money... once again initiated by a California House Representative.
Its stupid. What's she hope to accomplish with this? Really?
Speier to call on IG investigation into Navy chief's firing
By Rebecca Klar - 11/26/19 08:59 AM EST
© Greg Nash
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is calling for the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate the termination of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, following the top Navy official’s recent ouster.
“We've had our disagreements, but I am still distressed to see Sec. Spencer dismissed in the wake of @POTUS's efforts to subvert the military justice system. I will be calling on the DOD Inspector General to investigate and determine the circumstances of his termination,” Speier tweeted Tuesday.
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"I will be calling on the DOD Inspector General to investigate and determine the circumstances of his termination"
The dude already said he resigned, forced(?), on his principles. Case closed.
Do these people get any effing work done?
Problem is, are they pulling a McCabe on him? How does it impact his retirement?