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Sgt. Emma Sue Hurley, a 2018 Duncan High School graduate, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
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Sgt. Emma Sue Hurley, a 2018 Duncan High School graduate, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
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Sgt. Emma Sue Hurley, a 2018 Duncan High School graduate, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
Special to The Banner Editors note: This story has been updated to reflect current information.
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After criticism of pardons, Trump uses them on allies
Michael Kranish, The Washington Post
Dec. 23, 2020
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As Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016, his vow to drain the swamp included outrage at past use of presidential pardons. Citing the way President Bill Clinton had pardoned a fugitive financier during his last week in office, Trump fumed, People couldn t believe it.
Yet now, in the closing days of his term, Trump has added to his portfolio of pardons and commutations several people who seemed to exemplify the very swamp that Trump said he would drain, including former political allies as well as three former members of the House of Representatives.
Trump vowed to drain the swamp. Then he granted clemency to three former congressmen convicted of federal crimes. Michael Kranish
Replay Video UP NEXT As Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016, his vow to “drain the swamp” included outrage at past use of presidential pardons. Citing the way President Bill Clinton had pardoned a fugitive financier during his last week in office, Trump fumed, “People couldn’t believe it.” Yet now, in the closing days of his term, Trump has added to his portfolio of pardons and commutations several people who seemed to exemplify the very swamp that Trump said he would drain, including former political allies as well as three former members of the House of Representatives.
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This is Part II in a two-part series on Navy SEAL Dave Scott. You can read Part I here.
After the USS Cole was hit, nobody had any idea what attacks might be coming next. So the Navy immediately halted all resupply operations that were underway throughout the region and rerouted everything through a single port, where it could focus all its surveillance and intelligence resources in one place to make sure it was all safe. The guys in charge of making sure it was safe were us.
While nobody came out and said so, it was clear that command was worried about another Cole-style attack on an American vessel. If two idiots in a speedboat could take out a 10,000-ton destroyer, then who knew what else was possible? The security of the entire overseas fleet depended on our ability to get these resupply ships in and out safely.