“After reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect,” Matthew Lohmeier, the undersecretary of the Air Force, wrote in a letter. Filling their place in the DOJ are people such as Ed Martin, who was an attorney for some of the rioters and now leads the aptly named Weaponization Working Group, and Jared Wise, who NPR reported last month was caught on tape during the insurrection encouraging the mob to “kill” police officers. Not coincidentally, the administration is at the same time uplifting the original Lost Cause, placing a portrait of the traitor Robert E. Lee on display at West Point (in apparent defiance of a law that led to its removal) and planning to restore a monument to Confederate veterans at Arlington National Cemetery.
Author: David A. Graham
Published at: 2025-09-03 22:10:00
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