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U.S. Central Command ISIS reporting and whistleblower politics
[Daily Beast] TAMPA, Florida -- She worked on and off for five years identifying targets for the U.S. military's Central Command.And then, when, some believe, she spoke up about cherry-picked intelligence in the ISIS war, she was drummed out of her job--allegedly for cursing twice in the span of the year. Those were just some of the surreal allegations thrown around last week in a Tampa law office conference room turned into a quasi-courtroom. Had the case not involved the third-highest ranking person at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a two-star general, a military judge, and hours of testimony--all at a cost of thousands of dollars--it would have been hard to take seriously. Even with those high-ranking officials, at times it was hard not to do a double-take about what was happening. After all, if cursing were really a fireable offense in the military, every soldier, sailor, Marine, and Defense Department civilian would have to be sent home. The case suggested that, at CENTCOM, there are two wars being waged: one against ISIS and a separate internal fight between whistleblowers and commanders. This all came to the fore during a rare public hearing last Wednesday before the government appeals board, brought by a subordinate of Gregory Ryckman, the top-ranking civilian at CENTCOM's Joint Intelligence office, known as the J2. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-09 |
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