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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...

Committee. we need answers. need a secretary of the navy who is focused on these issues. brian: here is the big question, michael, especially you as a special operator yourself. we need to know they have our backs in the times of war the everyone tense city we don't understand civilians. how do you do that and still have a sense of justice out in the filed? do you think we got that breakdown down? >> no. i have looked at all of these cases. and the case you have lieutenant lorance, recently pardoned. i have read that case cover to cover and received a lot of counsel. there is a big difference ...

After accusations of war crimes. go to republican michael walz, veteran and former member of the armed services committee. welcome to the show. do you support these moves by the commander-in-chief. tell us why. >> i do. in the case of lieutenant lorance i've read this case very carefully and been studying it for some time and out there in afghanistan just before the incident that he was convicted of happened. here is the thing, bill. we have to be very careful and we have to draw a distinction. in his case he ordered his men to shoot at approaching afghans on a motorcycle. his predecessor had ...

About that is that that evidence has been in the possession of the government at the time of the court-martial and at the time leading up to the court-martial. we think that had that evidence been presented to the chain of command and to the -- and/or the jury, that they may never have had a court-martial or had we had a court-martial, that the outcome with have been entirely different. >> john, general richard clark was a well regarded general, head of the 82nd airborne, a great soldier is going to make the ultimate decision under the cold of military justice. why is this case particularly su...

Recent promotion to general, he has the authority to take this case and he can dismiss all charges, all specifications and he's particularly suited to do that for many of the reasons you just articulated. he knows things that the judge and the jury and those officers who recommended court-martial never did. because of that superior knowledge, he is rightly and correctly able to substitute his judgment as the convening authority for that of judge and jury and do right by clint, his family, the 82nd airborne division, the army, and the country. >> you had the capacity to find out the people invo...