Justice Department defends Pentagon’s proposed firings of Stars and Stripes staffers
The Justice Department (DOJ) is defending the Pentagon’s plan to dismiss three Stars and Stripes staffers for alleged insubordination, pushing back against claims that the decisions were made partially in retaliation for the military outlet’s coverage of conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara…