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LET'S GO: Trump Transition Team Reportedly Drawing Up List of Deceitful Military Officers...
• by Cullen LinebargerSeveral current and former Pentagon officers who have made their careers off sending heroic American soldiers off to die in disastrous foreign wars may be about to meet their comeuppance courtesy of the incoming Trump administration.
NBC News dropped an explosive report Saturday night revealing that the Trump transition team is making a list of those involved in the catastrophic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan and determining whether they can be court-martial for their failures. These include both current and former officials.
According to the outlet, Trump officials see creating a commission as one possible avenue to thoroughly investigate the withdrawal, including who was involved and how the assignment was carried out. Charges for those involved that could be as serious as treason against America, the highest possible crime.
From NBC:
The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.
Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said.
"They're taking it very seriously," the person with knowledge of the plan said.
NBC further reports that Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, is helping lead the project. It's also likely that Trump Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth will become involved, assuming the Senate confirms him.