Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting
Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. The California Sunday Magazine) In July 2012, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance gave an order that killed two Afghan civilians on a motorcycle near an operating base outside of Kandahar, in a volatile region in Afghanistan. Lorance was convicted of murder. The narrative weaved by Sean Hannity and others at Fox News framed Lorance as a war hero; he was pardoned by Donald Trump in November 2019 and served six years of a 20-year sentence. The former Army officer, who had been advised to...
Source: longreads.com