US Trump pardons two suspected war crimes officers in Afghanistan, restoring the rank of a SEAL task force once active in Iraq.

Two pardon army officers, Mathew L. Golsteyn and Clint Lorance and the SEAL task force were restored to the rank of Edward Gallagher, an unnamed official said on November 15. These people are notified by telephone by Trump.

Trump made the decision despite protests from several U.S. Department of Defense officials, three other anonymous officials said. Some military commanders fear Trump's move will weaken the US military justice system. Trump's decision will not be difficult because he heads the military justice system as commander in chief.

Major Mathew Golsteyn, who was awarded the Silver Star medal, was investigated for many years and had been to the army court in 2010 on suspicion of being involved in the death of a bomb-making suspect in Afghanistan. The Golsteyn trial for murder is scheduled for 2020. Golsteyn's lawyer Phillip Stackhouse said he was informed by the client that he would be pardoned.

Former Lieutenant Clint Lorance was sentenced to second-degree murder in 2013 for ordering his soldiers to open fire on three unarmed Afghan men in July 2012, killing two and killing one. love. Lorance received a 20-year sentence at a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Former SEAL task force Edward Gallagher was downgraded from sergeant to sergeant by taking pictures of the body of an IS rebel in 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Gallagher was once accused of murder but was later exempted from the charge. Gallagher was sentenced to 4 months in prison but not executed because he was jailed for 9 months before the trial took place in July.