According to a new report from the intercepts, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Gates has hired a convicted
war criminal who served eight years in prison for shooting an Afghanistan civilian in the
head during an int in during an interrogation, has hired this man to be a legislative aid,
specifically working on, uh, uh, national Security, armed Forces, international Affairs
and Veterans Affairs from Matt Gates, who of course sits on the Armed Services Committee.
So this man, man by the name of Derrick Miller, according to this report from Cliff Stein,
is a former US Army National Guard Sergeant spent eight years in prison for murdering
an Afghan civilian in 2010, and he now serves as a legislative assistant covering military
PO policy for gates.
Now, when asked why, why do you have a convicted war criminal working for you on your staff
for military issues of all things?
Why Matt Gates, his office responded thusly, we proudly stand with our military legislative
assistant, Derek Miller.
He was wrongfully convicted and served our country with honor wrongfully convicted by
a court marshal in the military.
By the way, they continued over the course of nearly a decade, members of Congress, multiple
advocacy groups, and over 16,000 individuals on a petition have all signaled their support
for clearing his name and recognizing him as innocent of charges imposed by a weaponized
military and justice system under President Obama.
Mr. Miller advises our office on many matters, including ways to make the military justice
system consistent with our constitutional principles and values.
So Matt Gae office, you're telling us that in 20 10, 2 years on the job, president Obama
thought to himself, you know what, what if we target this one guy's National guard Sergeant,
right?
Let's frame him for murder.
Let's falsely accuse him of murder and then try him and convict him.
Woohoo.
Boy, how about that White House cabinet?
You guys end.
We don't know who that is.
Who cares?
We're gonna do it anyway, that is the scenario that had to have played itself out.
In order for Matt Gaetz's idiot spokesperson's comments to be true, like there's some grand
conspiracy against this one, nobody to frame him for murder.
How, how is that even a plausible idea in the minds of these people?
Well, 16,000 people say he should be innocent.
There's people who wanted Charles Manson cleared of all charges.
You idiot.
That doesn't mean that you get cleared.
Of all the charges he went through the justice system that the military has set
Up, that Obama did not interfere with, and he was convicted, the jury only spent two
hours deliberating because the evidence was so overwhelming.
Again, according to clip Stein's report here, Miller shot 27 year old Adam Muhammad in the
head during an interrogation, Miller has maintained that he was acting in self-defense alleging
that Mohamed who had walked through a defensive perimeter established by Miller's unit, could
be a threat to his unit and that he tried to grab Miller's weapon during the interrogation.
But another National Guard member testified he heard Miller threatened to kill Mohamed
if he did not tell the truth, and then sat on top of him.
Mohamed was lying prone before shooting him in the head, killing him.
According to the prosecutor.
Miller then said, I shot him.
He was a liar.
So you've got witnesses that say, Nope.
He pretty much, uh, you know, just killed him.
There were witnesses that testified.
The prosecutor made the case.
Again, it went through the proper channels in the justice system as set up for members
of the military.
And he was convicted.
He was actually sentenced by the way to life in prison before it was then reduced to 20
years.
And then at eight years he was eligible for parole, which is what he's out on now.
Now, of course, working for Matt Gates on military policy, gates of course is not the
only individual that this man has worked for in Congress.
He also worked for Louie Gohmert.
Louie Gohmert, of course, being one of those members of Congress that gates, as people
mentioned, like they think he's innocent.
I don't care what they think the jury said, he's not.
He is by definition a convicted war criminal.
So why would Matt Gaetz even do this, right?
I mean, it's one thing to try to be the edgy guy in Congress.
It's another to hire a convicted war criminal.
So why?
Well, if you live in Matt Gaetz's district, you know why there are three military bases
in Matt Gaetz's district alone, massive military bases.
We also, obviously because of that, have a lot of veterans in this area, an overwhelming
number of all ages.
You know, people that are 30 years old that have ended their service in the military to
people who are 80 years old that live here, that ended their service in the military and
they're very protective of one another.
And Matt Gae knows that if you lose the military vote in this district, you can't win.
It's pretty much a majority.
So he has to pander these people and he has to say, listen, this guy was falsely accused.
So I'm hiring him because, hey, it could happen to you.
You are in the military.
You were in the military, they may come after you.
That's the thinking going on inside Matt Gaetz's brain.
So he decides to hire a convicted war criminal instead of just an honorably discharged veteran,
a retired veteran.
He has to go with that guy in order to pander to the military.
And as somebody who lives in Gates' District, I can tell you the folks down here are stupid
enough to buy into it.