{"id":103144,"date":"2020-08-02T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103144"},"modified":"2020-08-02T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T19:36:33","slug":"emails-show-pence-helped-former-seal-return-to-the-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103144","title":{"rendered":"Emails Show Pence Helped ex-Governor and Former SEAL Return to the Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jerry Lambe, a journalist at the website Law & Crime, cited the Kansas City Star newspaper<\/a> and contends that VP Pence used his influence to get ex-Missouri governor Eric Greitens back into the U.S. Navy after being ousted as governor.<\/p>\n

New Emails Show Mike Pence Got Disgraced Governor Back Into the Navy After Sex Crime Charge: Report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The office of Vice President Mike Pence\u00a0used political pressure to get former Missouri governor\u00a0Eric Greitens\u00a0reinstated into the Navy despite those in command stating they wanted nothing to do with the scandal-plagued former SEAL, the\u00a0Kansas City Star<\/em>\u00a0reported Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Star<\/em> obtained\u00a0 850 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which showed top brass at the Navy were extremely concerned with Greitens\u2019 history, which included a 2018 felony charge of sexual misconduct and another felony charge for computer tampering. Though both charges were eventually dropped, Greitens, who won Missouri\u2019s gubernatorial race as an unlikely outsider candidate in 2016, was forced to resign from office.<\/p>\n

Emails revealed from the FOIA request show Vice Adm.\u00a0Robert Burke, then the Navy\u2019s Chief of Personnel, saying that if Greitens was not a civilian at the time of the allegations, the Navy would have prosecuted him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure of the political leanings of Lambe or of Law & Crime, but it does strike me as more of an OP-ED than news.<\/p>\n

I was hard-pressed to find any email or quote directly attributable to VP Mike Pence, but I could have overlooked something.\u00a0 It was a third party characterization of intent, although the third party is a credible source – I still found it somewhat obscure if he was stating if he heard those discussions first hand or if he was referring to hearing of them.\u00a0 Maybe I missed the obvious.\u00a0 Could be all true, however.<\/p>\n

The Saint Louis Times-Dispatch posted<\/a> a similar story.\u00a0 That article also stemmed from the Kansas City Star newspaper<\/a> report.<\/p>\n

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All charges were eventually dropped against Greitens but not before the entire thing brought his political career to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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