After Gallagher, activists lobby Trump to intervene in other military cases

“I think what we’re seeing now is the tip of the iceberg, and United American Patriots is supporting those warriors who have been improperly accused of war crimes and unjustly convicted,” said retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel David “Bull” Gurfein, the chairman and CEO of United American Patriots, in a phone call with Newsweek on Monday…

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Among the cases the non-profit wants to present to the Trump administration is one that involves a convicted Army National Guard infantryman who shot and killed an unarmed Afghan man during a 2010 interrogation in the Laghman province of Afghanistan.

Derrick Miller was sentenced to life at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, but six years later, Miller’s sentence was reduced; he was paroled in May. He now works for the Justice for Warriors caucus out of the office of Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert of Louisiana. The caucus of House Republicans boasts members such as Representative Duncan Hunter of California and Steve King of Iowa.

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