General Discussion

and other adjudicated war criminals.

https://time.com/7176342/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-pardon-war-crimes-military/

..."Hegseth, a military veteran, staunch defender of Trump’s "America First" agenda, and an outspoken critic of what he calls the military’s "woke" culture, has built a career around challenging the military establishment. He held an influential role in advocating for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019—cases that divided the military and ignited fierce debates over the limits of executive power and military accountability.
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Gallagher was charged by the Navy with multiple crimes, including shooting civilians in Iraq, using a knife to kill a teenage Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017, and threatening to kill fellow SEALs if they reported him. Gallagher was acquitted of murder by a military jury but convicted on one count of posing for photographs with the deceased body. His rank was reduced by one step as punishment. Trump reversed Gallagher’s demotion, restoring his rank and benefits.
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The Washington Post reported at the time that Hegseth had personally lobbied Trump on the service members’ behalf, making frequent appeals through his Fox News platform and arguing that that the military has been tainted by political correctness. "You train someone to go and fight and kill the enemy, then they kill the enemy the way someone doesn’t like, and then we put them in jail," Hegseth argued on his Fox News program in Nov. 2019."...(more)