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| Make Americans exceptional again? Trump trumps Pentagon, pardons 2 Army officers charged with war crimes | Make Americans exceptional again? Trump trumps Pentagon, pardons 2 Army officers charged with war crimes |
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| President Donald Trump has pardoned two soldiers charged for war crimes in Afghanistan, suggesting that US troops are immune even in the face of their own military justice system, let alone the International Criminal Court. | President Donald Trump has pardoned two soldiers charged for war crimes in Afghanistan, suggesting that US troops are immune even in the face of their own military justice system, let alone the International Criminal Court. |
| The president signed a clemency order on Friday granting full pardons to two Army officers facing war crimes charges – one awaiting trial and the other already behind bars – and reinstating the rank of a Navy Seal demoted earlier this year over similar war crimes accusations. | The president signed a clemency order on Friday granting full pardons to two Army officers facing war crimes charges – one awaiting trial and the other already behind bars – and reinstating the rank of a Navy Seal demoted earlier this year over similar war crimes accusations. |
| Army Major Mathew Golsteyn was facing a court-martial over the murder of a suspected bomb-maker in Afghanistan in 2010. While Golsteyn admitted to shooting the man because he was “certain” he would continue to make bombs, the White House said it was giving a “swift resolution” to the case “in the interests of justice.” | |
| “Our family is profoundly grateful for the president’s action,” Golsteyn said in a statement. “We have lived in constant fear of this runaway prosecution. Thanks to President Trump, we now have a chance to rebuild our family and lives.” | |
| The two other cases involved former Army 1st Lieutenant Clint Lorance – convicted of second-degree murder in 2013, after killing two civilians, and sentenced to 19 years in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth – as well as Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. Though acquitted of murder charges related to his tour of duty in Iraq, Gallagher was sentenced for the lesser crime of posing with a corpse in July, resulting in his demotion from Chief Petty Officer to Petty Officer First Class. Gallagher spent four months in prison, but was given time served after his case concluded. | |
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