Shortly after sunrise on Friday, two women stood near the second fairway of Bethpage Black and began speaking in hushed tones.

Pete Hegseth’s advocacy for service members accused of war crimes, and Trump’s pardons of them, have helped usher in an era of military aggression and disregard for the rule of law.

Until now, many of the troubling events that took place during the war in Afghanistan have been shrouded in secrecy.