Claims a Fired Air Force General Was Sentenced to Death Have Spread Online. They're Not True.
Military.com | By Thomas Novelly
Published May 14, 2025 at 5:31pm ET
Social media accounts have been spreading a claim that a former top official in the Air Force who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year was charged with treason and sentenced to be hung by the military.
It isn't true.
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Real Raw News -- a website that has been called out for spreading misinformation -- wrote on May 8 that former Air Force Vice Chief of Staff James "Jim" Slife was "convicted of treason and sentenced to hang to death" by the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corp and the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Snippets of the article were then spread on multiple social media accounts, Snopes reported. The fictitious report added that Slife's capital punishment was set for May 12.
A spokesperson for the Office of Military Commissions told Military.com that the claim was inaccurate, and an expert on misinformation said the article is a sad example of how bogus stories can spread on the internet.
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