{"id":12529,"date":"2013-03-06T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12529"},"modified":"2013-03-06T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:19:06","slug":"just-tell-her-it-was-because-of-sequestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/just-tell-her-it-was-because-of-sequestration\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Tell Her It Was Because Of Sequestration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator McCaskill is upset<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sen. Claire McCaskill is challenging a decision in the Air Force to release a colonel who had begun serving a prison sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in his home.<\/p>\n

In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning, McCaskill grilled the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. James Mattis, about the conviction and release of Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, an F-16 pilot who had become an inspector general at a U.S. base in Italy.<\/p>\n

“My heart is beating fast right now I am so upset about this,” McCaskill, D-Mo., said at the hearing.<\/p>\n

Sen. Claire McCaskill is challenging a decision in the Air Force to release a colonel who had begun serving a prison sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in his home.<\/p>\n

. . . .<\/p>\n

The Air Force Times reported on Monday that a jury of four colonels and a lieutenant colonel had sentenced Wilkerson to a year in prison and dismissal from the Air Force after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting an American physician’s assistant.<\/p>\n

But the conviction was reversed last week by Third Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin after he concluded that there had been insufficient evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCaskill was strangely silent on the Department of Homeland Security’s recent release of thousands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But then again, McCaskill grandstands as a watchdog of the military, not a watchdog of administrations controlled by her political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator McCaskill is upset: Sen. Claire McCaskill is challenging a decision in the Air Force to release a colonel who had begun serving a prison sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in his home. In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning, McCaskill grilled the head of the U.S. Central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12531,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}