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New Emails Show Mike Pence Got Disgraced Governor Back Into the Navy After Sex Crime Charge: Report
JERRY LAMBE
Aug 1st, 2020, 7:33 pm
V.P. Mike Pence (left) and Eric Greitens (far right, blue shirt) are seen together in Missouri on February 22, 2017.
The office of Vice President Mike Pence used political pressure to get former Missouri governor Eric Greitens reinstated into the Navy despite those in command stating they wanted nothing to do with the scandal-plagued former SEAL, the Kansas City Star reported Saturday.
The Star obtained 850 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which showed top brass at the Navy were extremely concerned with Greitens’ history, which included a 2018 felony charge of sexual misconduct and another felony charge for computer tampering. Though both charges were eventually dropped, Greitens, who won Missouri’s gubernatorial race as an unlikely outsider candidate in 2016, was forced to resign from office.
Emails revealed from the FOIA request show Vice Adm. Robert Burke, then the Navy’s Chief of Personnel, saying that if Greitens was not a civilian at the time of the allegations, the Navy would have prosecuted him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
“Since he was in the IRR [Individual Ready Reserve] at the time, we had no recourse. If he were in the AC [active component], or even RC [reserve component] on active duty, we would have gone after Art 120 [Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, rape and sexual assault],” Burke wrote in an email dated May 24, 2019.
More:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/new-emails-show-mike-pence-got-disgraced-governor-eric-greitens-back-into-the-navy-after-sex-crime-charge-report/
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about re-admission after IRR civilian status - Any progress to prohibit the readmission to active status of the mentally and physically unhealthy, morally, ethically, criminally unfit as an escape from civilian justice?
But, but, but...? they have superior skills that kills enemies of the People or have already injured, with good evidence of guilt, innocent members of the People. 
What could possibly go wrong beside wasting our $$$ and further spreading the tarnish of reputations of individuals that dishonor their oaths toward protection against both foreign and domestic terrorists where loopholes allow?
Is that wrong, or is this something one should be careful about one wishes?
