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You claim to know the first Sargent of the 4th infantry who is giving you the true low down on the West case...yeah right! Because of the potential public back-lash that this trial might afford the Military..you can bet no first sargent isn't going to be telling you any-thing but the official line!
Because if you are truly speaking to him, you have just outed him on line and this may subject the First Sargent to an obstuction of justice charge and violation of security oaths and just about a zillion other things that would send a FIRST SARGENT to Leavenworth for a thousand years! For that matter, with all the security and everything else how is it you have a direct line over there...especially in regards to the West case? For that matter you might be Psy ops your self, the military has areputation to guard does it not? I don't think you know squat and your just blowing smoke! If I was that First Sargent, I wouldn't have liked being outed on Free Republic!

My take on the case is that West violated interrogation procedures or he didn't! If the local JAG group felt there was a violation of procedure, he should not have been GIVEN A CHOICE OF RETIREMENT WITHOUT PAY or court Martial with threat of imprisonment. They should have relieved him of command and arrested him pending hearings and court Martial. It was the choice presented to him that the Colonel(and any man in the army as long as him) that he found unpalatable. Under duress, mistakes in judgment occur and they must be disciplined. The prisoner in question is alive, his men are alive! West was told...destroy your-self or we will destroy you. Well, a man would rather be destroyed then to destroy himself for such an error especially when the results didn't justify it.
He shouldn't have been given that choice...if the local JAG has a case, they should have gone right to arrest and court martial, in the end even if West had lost, it would have preserved some dignity. Now you have a Colonel doing a "Clarence Thomas" on the military(with some justification I might add...I mean you don't rise to Lt. Colonel with-out putting in some box-tops), and even if there was culpability on the Colonel's part, the military looks very bad. The court martial is probably the right thing to do, the act of giving the Colonel a "choice" of retirement or court Martial was wrong! The Colonel obviously feels he's being rail-roaded or else he wouldn't be putting up such a sqwawk. (I suppose its going to come down an arguement as to what IS IS...which is what we were left with after the Clintonoids put their brand of spit and NO POLISH on the military)

Hey dip-stick that was me who know's the 1SG. And I never said he told me a damn thing about this case. William Terrell asked me if I took a poll of the "mudfeet" down there on how they felt about this thing. So I told him what I know from speaking with the 1SG.

If you're going to rant at least pull your head out of your rear so everyone can understand you.

You claim to know the first Sargent of the 4th infantry who is giving you the true low down on the West case...yeah right!

Please show me the post where I made such a claim. You nuts can go on all day about where my information comes from. You can claim to know me, you can say whatever you want, it will only add to your embarassment as this case goes forward. I have not, nor will I ever share how I know what I know, and I will leave it to the future to determine my credibility. It was a nice try, though. Can you hear the applause? That's me.