Hi Friends,
Please read the letter below from my friend, Beverly Perlson of The Band Of Mothers, and view the video included. Please also read Bob McCarty's emails that were sent to Republican congressional offices of the House Armed Services Committee. Bob McCarty received no replies, so we need to help!
Please join me in sending an email to all on the email list below, to the offices of the House Armed Services Committee. Just copy past the list in your send box and ask the following question:
“Why are known terrorists being freed by this Administration to return to the battlefield to kill more of our soldiers, while members of our own United States Military remain incarcerated for actions committed in the war against terrorists?”
Thanks for your help!
God Bless our Military!
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In Honor of Mother's of Warriors : Urgent Assistance Needed: Our Troops Need Your Help
From: Beverly Perlson:
Please see Bob McCarty's email below. He is asking for your help. I am asking that you help Mr McCarty obtain the information he has requested. Yesterday we lost another one of our Brave American Sons at the hands of a member of the Afghan Army! These are the very people are Troops are risking their lives everyday to help! Our Troops deserve to know how many of their Brave Brothers have been killed by members of the Afghan Army, their families deserve to know and all Americans deserve to know!!!
As this administration continues to release terrorists our Sons continue to be incarcerated for actions committed in war! Awhile back, I sent all of your email addresses out to folks on my email list. I asked the folks to email each of you and “politely” ask for your help to secure the release of our Sons. We asked that our Brave Sons be treated and shown the same courtesy this administration was affording the terrorists and to please secure their release. I was rudely admonished by a Chief of Staff from one of the offices included on this email string. He was upset because his office received 100’s of emails in their inbox! Shame on that Chief of staff!
Tomorrow is Mother's Day, and in honor of all the mothers who have raised fine brave Americans who risk their lives and willingly serve this country, I ask each of you to show these American Mothers the respect they deserve and PLEASE TAKE A STAND FOR THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS! Please assist Mr McCarty in his request and please show some compassion and respect to American mothers whose Sons are incarcerated . Please help them secure the release of their Sons. I cannot say the name of the institution these Warriors are serving their prison sentence at because the same shameful Chief of Staff mentioned above told me any further emails going into the email addresses above with the L word in them would be blocked and further, he told me I will not like the eventual outcome for those Soldier incarcerated. Again, Shame on that Chief of Staff! I can assure you he in no way reflects the integrity of the Congressman he works for.
Why are Afghan mothers and their sons shown more compassion than our American mothers and their Sons?!! One of these brave Warriors is serving a life sentence and another is 40 years old and he will be 80 when he is allowed to return home to his family!!!! Tomorrow, these mothers will cry for their Sons as I'm sure they do every night, but those Afghan and Iraqi mothers whose Sons have been released back to the battlefield will rejoice!! This is disgraceful and it is wrong!
Please be advised I will be sending this email out and asking folks to please email all of you again. Please be advised too that I always ask folks to be polite and respectful. I ask you too to understand and realize that our hearts are breaking for our Troops over there. I invite you to watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4cLnjIAbac). Look at the faces of these Brave Warriors, their morale is lower than I have ever seen it and they are tired of seeing their Brothers killed and maimed as this administration continues it's policy of appeasement. Please step up to the plate and help them!
I have waited for this Campaigner-in-Chief to ask for an apology from the Afghan leadership for the deaths of our Warriors but he is too busy attending $40,000 per plate fundraisers while he attempts to gut our military. I know the Republicans on the hill have worked this past week to stop him from furthering his insane policies that hurt our Troops and I appreciate all your efforts. Thank You!
As you honor your Mothers tomorrow, please think of the Brave Mothers whose Sons risk their lives to keep all of you safe! Please remember all the mothers and their families whose Sons have given their lives in this fight where the ROE’s and catch and release policies give the enemy the edge every time! Please fight for the safety of our Troops and please work to release our Sons who are incarcerated. As this administration releases brutal terrorists, our American Sons should be afforded the same treatment this administration is affording terrorists!
Thank You for your consideration.
With A Mother's Heart,
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
http://www.thebandofmothers.com
http://www.defendmicahel.com
http://www.savethissoldier.com
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From: Bob McCarty
Subject: Re: Urgent Assistance Needed
To:
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Date: Friday, May 11, 2012, 1:07 PM
Ladies & Gentlemen:
Two weeks ago, I sent you an email message (see below) about the so-called “green-on-blue” attacks in Afghanistan. Today, it appears as if none of you — or your bosses — seem to give a flip about the lives of our men and women in harm's way. None of you responded!
Please prove to me that's not the case by helping me get answers about the green-on-blue attacks which, by the way, I exposed a bit more in a post yesterday, Request for Copy of ‘Green-On-Blue’ Handbook Results in 30 Days of Stonewalling by Army.
If you can't do it, point me to someone who can.
Sincerely,
Bob McCarty, Investigative Reporter
Author: Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier's Fight For Military Justice
Blogger: BobMcCarty.com
Contributor: Breitbart.com
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Bob McCarty
Ladies & Gentlemen:
At last count, 53 U.S. troops — including seven this year — have been killed in Afghanistan since 2007 by thought-to-be-friendly members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Today, after more than 30 days and dozens of emails exchanged with public affairs officers (PAO) representing several Department of Defense entities (OSD, DIA, CENTCOM, Army HQ, ISAF et al), I need your help in extracting information from the U.S. Army and/or U.S. military officials with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. With your help, I think I can shed some light on factors that might be causing these tragic “Green-on-Blue Killings.”
FYI: Beverly Perlson, a good friend, pro-military activist and founder of The Band of Mothers, gave me your email addresses.
I've been researching the subject of truth-detection technologies being used — or, in some cases, not used — by officials inside the U.S. military and intelligence communities. The focus of my recent inquiries has been the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS), a device often referred to as the portable polygraph or handheld polygraph.
BACKGROUND INFO
DIA is DoD’s executive agency for PCASS, but 70 percent of the 2,500 people trained on PCASS since its introduction in 2008 have been Army employees; therefore, my focus is largely on the Army's use of PCASS. The National Center for Credibility Assessment (NCCA) falls under DIA and is the lead agency for training federal government employees on polygraph and PCASS.
QUESTIONS FOR WHICH I NEED ANSWERS
Because it took my 31 days to obtain very superficial answers to eight of nine questions I posed to officials at various DoD agencies, I’m asking for your help in getting me answers to the following questions:
Q1. How much has the PCASS program cost the DoD overall and the Army in particular since its introduction in 2008?
Q2. Is there a DoD-level PCASS program manager? If so, please provide contact information so that I might arrange an interview.
Q3. If there is not a DoD-level PCASS program manager, are members of the House (and Senate) Intelligence and Armed Services Committees aware of that?
Q4. Have any reports on the effectiveness of PCASS in combat theaters been written by, commissioned by and/or provided to anyone within DoD since January 1, 2008? If so, how do I go about requesting a copy of same?
Q5. Has any DoD official(s) provided briefings and/or other communications to any member(s) of Congress regarding PCASS since January 1, 2008? If so, please describe and inform me as to how I go about requesting copies of any unclassified documents related to those briefings or communications.
Q6. Has any branch of the U.S. government provided and/or sold any type of polygraph equipment — including but not limited to the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS) — to any non-U.S. government agencies, quasi-governmental agencies or other entities operating in Southwest Asia since January 2008? If so, please describe.
TWO RELATED MATTERS
1. During the first week of April 2012, the Army Center for Lessons Learned published a document, “Inside the Wire Threats — Afghanistan,” which was marked “For Official Use Only” upon publication. Soon after it was published, I forwarded a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of that document to the DoD FOIA Office. Despite attempts to contact anyone in that office for an update since then, I have been unsuccessful in learning anything about the status of this request. [FYI: The handbook was mentioned by DoD officials during testimony February 1, 2012, on “USE OF AFGHAN NATIONALS TO PROVIDE SECURITY TO U.S. FORCES.”before members of the House Armed Services Committee.]
2. On the advice of LTC Jimmie Cummings (ISAF/PAO), who said he could not answer questions about the ANSF’s personnel screening procedures, I contacted Afghan Ministry of the Interior Spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi April 13 with several questions (below) regarding the process via which the ANSF vets its soldiers:
Question 1: What tools, methods and/or procedures have been used by the Afghan government to screen ANSF members in an attempt to determine their loyalty and/or trustworthiness?
Question 2: Is any form of polygraph technology being used to screen ANSF members in an attempt to determine their loyalty and/or trustworthiness? If so, please describe.
Question 3: Were any of the ANSF members who have been implicated in the shootings of Americans subjected to screening prior to their involvement in the shootings? If so, did they successfully pass those screenings? Details please.
Though Mr. Sediqqi acknowledged receipt of my questions via email, he has not provided any answers. I would appreciate if you could shed some light on this subject in the form of unclassified documents or other information that might help me answer these questions.
MY POINTS OF CONTACT
My DoD agencies’ public affairs points of contact, thusfar, have been the following:
Susan Strednansky, DIA/PA
LTC Jimmie Cummings, ISAF/PA
LTC James Gregory, OSD/PA
Wayne Hall, Army Media Relations
Thanks in advance for your assistant with this inquiry.
Sincerely,
Bob McCarty, Investigative Reporter
Author: Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier's Fight For Military Justice
Blogger: BobMcCarty.com
Contributor: Breitbart.com