{"id":111168,"date":"2023-03-31T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111168"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:49:10","slug":"congressman-gaetz-hires-war-criminal-convicted-by-us-military-of-executing-man-during-interrogation-then-throwing-body-into-latrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111168","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Gaetz Hires War Criminal Convicted by US Military of Executing Man During Interrogation Then Throwing Body Into Latrine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/03\/29\/matt-gaetz-aide-war-criminal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Intercept:<\/a> &#8220;DERRICK MILLER,\u00a0a 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While on a combat mission in Afghanistan\u2019s Laghman province on September 26, 2010, Miller<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/jul\/28\/us-soldier-life-prison-afghan-civilian-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;shot 27-year-old Atta Mohammed<\/a>&nbsp;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\u2019s unit, could be a threat to his unit and that he had tried to grab Miller\u2019s 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 \u2014 Mohammed was lying prone \u2014 before shooting him in the head, killing him. According to the prosecutor, Miller then said, \u201cI shot him. He was a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammed\u2019s body was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/national-guardsman-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-afghan-civilian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left in a latrine<\/a>, in violation of military standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: &#8220;DERRICK MILLER,\u00a0a 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\u2019s Laghman province on September 26, 2010, Miller&nbsp;shot 27-year-old Atta Mohammed&nbsp;in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111169,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168\/revisions\/111169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}