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Friday, April 7th, 2023

Matt Gaetz’s Legislative Aide is a Convicted War Criminal

Author:     Ken Klippenstein
Source:     The Intercept
Publication Date:     March 29 2023 | 12:46 p.m.
 Link: Matt Gaetz’s Legislative Aide is a Convicted War Criminal
Stephan:  

The thing about MAGAt Republican politicians is they are largely crooks, grifters, and scammers, and they surround and staff themselves with people with the same lack of ethics. Consider as an example Matt Gaetz who has been in Congress since 2017 as a result of the voters of Florida’s 1st congressional district. The district includes portions of Walton County and all of Escambia, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties. And Gaetz, who is notably corrupt and perfectly consistent with MAGAt standards has chosen a convicted war criminal for his staff. I wonder, are the people of Florida’s 1st congressional district who voted Gaetz into office proud of themselves?

MAGAt Republican Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida. Credit: Andres Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty

Derrick Miller, a former U.S. Army National Guard sergeant who spent eight years in prison for murdering an Afghan civilian in 2010, now serves as a legislative assistant covering military policy for Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.

While on a combat mission in Afghanistan’s Laghman province on September 26, 2010, Miller shot 27-year-old Atta Mohammed in the head during an interrogation. Miller has maintained that he was acting in self-defense, alleging that Mohammed, who had walked through a defensive perimeter established by Miller’s unit, could be a threat to his unit and that he had tried to grab Miller’s weapon during the interrogation. But another National Guard member testified he heard Miller threaten to kill Mohammed if he did not tell the truth; and then sat on top of him — Mohammed was lying prone — before shooting him in the head, killing him. According to the prosecutor, Miller then said, “I shot him. He was a liar.”

Mohammed’s body was left in a latrine, […]

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3 Comments

  1. Sam Crespi on Friday, April 7, 2023 at 6:08 am

    The right will approve of what he did. To them he is a war hero who suffered from seeing the worst.

  2. John B Alexander on Friday, April 7, 2023 at 10:14 am

    Sadly, his district is heavily military-oriented.

  3. Rev. Dean on Friday, April 7, 2023 at 11:51 am

    The “Military-Industrial-Banking-Complex” has too much power which makes this country too powerful for it’s own good. The “Complex” is very aggressive and not just a protective force like it should be.