Editor of military news outlet that first revealed US aircraft carrier crisis says he was fired over interview – live
Erik Slavin says he was dismissed for insubordination after objecting to potential censorship in wake of furor sparked by reported conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln Pentagon fires publisher and editor of Stars & Stripes Backlash as navy carrier set to honor Black war hero could be named after Trump Sign up for the US Breaking News email US Senator Tim Sheehy, a Montana Republican and a cattle rancher, has come out ag
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- 21 Aug 2026, 20:35 UTC
- Last checked
- 21 Aug 2026, 23:20 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 21 Aug 2026, 22:58 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Sam Levin (now); Robert Mackey, Lucy Campbell, George Chidi and Vivian Ho (earlier)
- Section
- Trump administration
Erik Slavin says he was dismissed for insubordination after objecting to potential censorship in wake of furor sparked by reported conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln Pentagon fires publisher and editor of Stars & Stripes Backlash as navy carrier set to honor Black war hero could be named after Trump Sign up for the US Breaking News email US Senator Tim Sheehy, a Montana Republican and a cattle rancher, has come out ag
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Editor of military news outlet that first revealed US aircraft carrier crisis says he was fired over interview – live
Erik Slavin says he was dismissed for insubordination after objecting to potential censorship in wake of furor sparked by reported conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln Pentagon fires publisher and editor of Stars & Stripes Backlash as navy carrier set to honor Black war hero could be named after Trump Sign up for the US Breaking News email US Senator Tim Sheehy, a Montana Republican and a cattle rancher, has come out ag
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Editor of military news outlet that first revealed US aircraft carrier crisis says he was fired over interview – live
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Editor of military news outlet that first revealed US aircraft carrier crisis says he was fired over interview – live
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Editor of military news outlet that first revealed US aircraft carrier crisis says he was fired over interview – live
Erik Slavin says he was dismissed for insubordination after objecting to potential censorship in wake of furor sparked by reported conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln Pentagon fires publisher and editor of Stars & Stripes Backlash as navy carrier set to honor Black war hero could be named after Trump Sign up for the US Breaking News email US Senator Tim Sheehy, a Montana Republican and a cattle rancher, has come out ag
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Editor of military news outlet that first revealed US aircraft carrier crisis says he was fired over interview – live
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #1009
- Observed
- 21 Aug 2026, 23:05 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 454,377 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt