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The Army has charged Special Forces Maj. Matthew Golsteyn with murder for allegedly shooting a suspected Taliban bomb-maker in 2010. This comes more than two years after Golsteyn admitted during an interview with Fox News that he killed the Afghan man because he feared the suspected bomb-maker would murder an Afghan tribal leader if released. Golsteyn has been recalled to active-duty after being placed on excess leave following a board of inquiry’s June 2015 recommendation that he receive a general discharge, said US Army Special Operations Command spokesman Lt. Col. Loren Bymer. “Major Matthew Golsteyn’s immediate commander has determined that sufficient evidence exists to warrant the preferral of charges against him,” Bymer told Task & Purpose on Thursday. “Maj. Golsteyn is being charged with the murder of an Afghan male during his 2010 deployment to Afghanistan.” [embedded content] A redacted copy of Golsteyn’s charge sheet was not immediately available, Bymer said. Golst...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using a futuristic eye-scanning device to weed out dishonest potential recruits during the initial application phase. That’s according to  a detail contained within a blistering report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released last week. The report criticizes the agency for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on what has so far been an unsuccessful attempt to fulfill president Donald Trump’s January 2017  executive order to hire 7,500 new CBP officers and Border Patrol agents over the next five years. The OIG report said Accenture Federal Services, the consulting firm CBP retained to help it meet the increased staffing numbers, has not delivered on the “promised hiring process or results.” Only two new CBP employees were hired as of October 1, 10 months into the five-year contract. The company has so far received $13.6 million of a potential $297 million; $43 million has been ...

One shocking headline you won’t see in the National Enquirer: “TABLOID RAG RATS ON STUNNED PREZ” It would not be fake news. The Enquirer, which has aggressively adulated Donald Trump and savaged his enemies, is abandoning the president to save itself from criminal charges. Last week, the paper’s parent company, America Media Inc., officially confessed to what the Wall Street Journal reported before the 2016 election: The Enquirer paid $150,000 to former Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal to buy and then bury her allegation of an affair with Trump in 2006-2007. AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story to prevent it from influencing the election,” stated prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. Trump is – or had been – close pals with AMI chief David Pecker, who’d pushed Trump for years to run for the White House, and then used the Enquirer to promote his candidacy. To avoid being charged with campaign-law vio...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using a futuristic eye-scanning device to weed out dishonest potential recruits during the initial application phase. That’s according to  a detail contained within a blistering report  from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released last week. The report criticizes the agency for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on what has so far been an unsuccessful attempt to fulfill president Donald Trump’s January 2017  executive order to hire 7,500 new CBP officers and Border Patrol agents  over the next five years. The OIG report said Accenture Federal Services, the consulting firm CBP retained to help it meet the increased staffing numbers, has not delivered on the “promised hiring process or results.” Only  two new CBP employees were hired  as of October 1, 10 months into the five-year contract. The company has so far received $13.6 million of a potential $297 million; $43 ...