Name: John Francis Kelly                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Nickname/s: The Church Lady

Born: May 11, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts

Profession: United States Marine Corps General. Retired in 2016.

Trump Administration Positions: United States Secretary of Homeland Security (January-July 2017) and White House Chief of Staff (July 2017-Jan. 2, 2019)

War Crime Charge/s:

“General Kelly’s aggressive oversight of the illegal military prison at Guantánamo Bay disqualifies him to head the Department of Homeland Security,” said the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). “Presiding over a population of detainees not charged or convicted of crimes, over whom he had maximum custodial control, Kelly treated them with brutality. His response to the detainees' peaceful hunger strike in 2013 was punitive force-feeding, solitary confinement, and rubber bullets. Furthermore, he sabotaged efforts by the Obama administration to resettle detainees, consistently undermining the will of his commander in chief…. Kelly’s recent vow to end ‘political correctness’ in U.S. national security policy is a thinly veiled endorsement of policies and practices that are illegal and immoral, including torture and racial and religious profiling.”

Primary Associations:

• Commander of United States Southern Command (2012-2016)
• Commander of Multi-National Force–West in Iraq (2008-2009)
  
• Commander of I Marine Expeditionary Force (2007-2008)

Secondary Associations:

• As of May 2019, Kelly is a member of the board of directors for Caliburn International, which runs one immigrant detention center in Florida and three in Texas.
• Before joining the Trump administration, Kelly served on the board of advisers for an investment firm which now owns Caliburn.

More Information:

• It was reported, “From 2011 until [February 2016], [Kelly] oversaw a command [United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)] whose recent misdeeds range from buying overseas sex with military money and circulating slur-filled emails about the commander in chief to sheltering a Chilean war criminal, plotting the Honduran coup, and putting guns in the hands of Colombian death squads.
• ”Kelly’s SOUTHCOM trained Colombian military officers at the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), many of whom were involved in extrajudicial killings of civilians and other war crimes. Kelly is quoted saying, “Colombia has shown us the way.”

• 1-17-18 John Kelly, Deacon of Deportation

• 5-4-19 Former Trump Adviser Kelly Joins Board of Immigrant Detention Center Company