{"id":59852,"date":"2015-05-17T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59852"},"modified":"2015-05-17T08:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:46:50","slug":"major-mathew-golsteyn-may-face-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59852","title":{"rendered":"Major Mathew Golsteyn may face hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

We talked <\/a>about the case of Major Mathew Golsteyn, the Special Forces officer who had his Silver Star for gallantry under fire taken from him by the Secretary of the Army John McHugh. Allegedly, Golsteyn told CIA investigators that he had captured an Afghani bomb maker and summarily executed him. He buried the body, but then Golsteyn claims that he returned to the scene, exhumed the corpse and burned it. <\/p>\n

The Army can’t punish him because they can find no witnesses nor can they find the body, according to the Associated Press<\/a>, criminal investigators won’t rely solely on his confession for prosecution; <\/p>\n

Though a criminal investigation failed to find remains of his alleged victim and didn’t result in charges against Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, he’s been targeted for possible dismissal from the Army and the consequent loss of veteran’s benefits with a less-than-honorable discharge.<\/p>\n

A Fort Bragg hearing before three, higher-ranked Special Forces officers could meet later this month to weigh arguments from Golsteyn’s attorney why he should remain on active duty.<\/p>\n

“My hope is that Golsteyn will receive a fair and impartial hearing. Based on the Army’s actions and decisions thus far, I regret to say this won’t be the case,” one of the soldier’s defenders, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., wrote Wednesday to Army Secretary John McHugh. Army brass have kept Hunter updated on the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the Army really has no evidence against the Major, so they intend to punish him administratively – a pretty common practice in the military. Let’s say that Golsteyn had captured the bombmaker instead of killing him. The murderer probably would have been released by the Karzai administration, or escaped from custody and he’d be back at making bombs, killing not only US military personnel but Afghani civilians as well. The world is a better place without the fellow – and that’s if Golsteyn had actually killed him and he wasn’t just bragging to the CIA investigators, as evidence, or the lack of evidence, actually, suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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