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He resigned from Congress in 2005 after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

"A pardon of Robert Bales would soil our nation’s values and tarnish the honor and integrity of our nation’s warfighters."

Trump's pardoning of four Blackwater contractors underscores America's apathy towards war crimes committed abroad.

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he had pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn

President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor — now living in Russia— whose spectacular leaks shook the U.S. intelligence community in 2013

President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is considering a full pardon for his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about dealings with Russia's ambassador before Trump took office

Navy SEALs who were never called to testify in the war crimes trial of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher told naval criminal investigators about behavior they witnessed, including the alleged stabbing of a wounded ISIS fighter that led to murder charges against Gallagher

"[Donald Trump] told me my record would be expunged," he said on Twitter. "His staff in the White House must have disagreed. This will be an uphill battle."

"What I held as the unfathomable moral bedrock of the U.S. military — condoning the worst actors on the battlefield — has now become an acceptable reality"

Former Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, who was pardoned on Nov. 15., says he was betrayed by his superiors

Defense Secretary Mark Esper expressed confidence on Sunday in the U.S. military justice system's ability to hold troops to account, two days after President Donald Trump pardoned two Army officers accused of war crimes in Afghanistan and restored the rank of a Navy SEAL platoon commander who was demoted for actions in Iraq

Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher has been released from pretrial custody ahead of his court-martial on charges for allegedly killing a wounded ISIS fighter and other offenses.

​Retired U.S. Navy Adm. William McRaven, a former Navy SEAL who oversaw the Osama bin Laden raid in 2011, warned that President Donald Trump "needs to be very careful" about a presidential pardon for several military veterans accused of war crimes

"Fox & Friends" weekend co-host Pete Hegseth has been working behind the scenes to convince President Donald Trump to pardon U.S. service members accused or convicted of war crimes, according to a recent report in the Daily Beast

President Trump may pardon a Navy SEAL and a former Green Beret accused of murder as well as Scout Snipers who were videotaped urinating on Taliban corpses.