Today's show features a few graphic descriptions of war crimes.

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Memorial Day Weekend is coming up and if reports are to be believed, the President of the

United States is making some very unusual plans to commemorate the holiday this year.

This all broke over the weekend when the New York Times reported that multiple sources

within the administration basically have seen paperwork that was going to the White House

that would be used to consider and potentially sign pardons for at least four cases of war

crimes that are currently on the slate but there may have been more.

Adam Weinstein wrote about these military pardons for the New Republic.

They want to be able to make an announcement of the pardons in time for the Memorial Day

holiday next Monday.

Memorial Day, of course, is a very solemn holiday that's supposed to honor America's war

dead and it seems that the administration thinks that that would be an appropriate time

to announce pardons of accused and convicted war criminals.

What do we know so far about who he's considering pardoning?

So you have a Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher who is accused of a series of war crimes including

several murders in connection with his deployment with the Navy SEALs and most soul fighting

ISIS in Iraq in 2017.

You have Matthew Goldstein, a Green Beret officer who deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 where

he is reported to have killed an Afghan accused being a bomb maker.

You have Nicholas Slatton who is not a service person.

He's a veteran but he was actually convicted of murder and connection with his work for

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