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Well this didn’t take long.<\/p>\n
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Saturday tore into President Donald Trump for pardoning two Army officers who were accused or found guilty of war crimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing pro-military about overruling our military justice system to prevent it from delivering accountability for war crimes,\u201d Buttigieg tweeted. \u201cThe president has again dishonored our armed services.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments from the South Bend, Ind., mayor, who served in Afghanistan, came after Trump granted clemency to Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn despite lingering concerns the pardons could undermine the military justice system. The president also restored Navy SEAL Ed Gallagher\u2019s rank to chief petty officer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
POTUS wannabe Pete speaks from experience, too. According to documents obtained by ABC 57\u2019s investigative reporter Clifton French, Buttigieg served a total of nine months, with six months in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in \u201can imminent danger pay area\u201d from late March to mid-September 2014.<\/p>\n
Buttigieg represented ATFC at \u201chigh level briefings,\u201d the documents say, and \u201ccoordinated intelligence sharing and targeting deconfliction\u201d methods with multiple organizations.<\/p>\n
In his book \u201cShortest Way Home,\u201d Buttigieg wrote about how he expected to spend the bulk of his time as an intelligence analyst \u201cbehind a sophisticated computer terminal in a secure area.\u201d<\/p>\n
But out on the campaign trail, Buttigieg has talked about the 119 times he says he crossed \u201coutside the wire,\u201d leaving the relative safety of the base as a vehicle commander on convoy security detail in dangerous parts of Kabul.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe learned what it is to trust one another with our lives,\u201d Buttigieg said in his presidential launch speech.<\/p>\n
The documents do not say anything about Buttigieg\u2019s time outside the wire, but military officials who reviewed the documents for The Hill note that he likely did not engage in direct combat, which would have earned him a Navy combat ribbon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If Trump had not granted the pardons and reinstatement of rank he would have been guilty of throwing our brave soldiers and sailors under the legal bus of an out-of-date, unconstitutional justice system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thanks for your service, Pete.<\/p>\n
References-<\/p>\n
Politico.com<\/a><\/p>\n
The Hill.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"