Posted on 11/08/2017 9:30:16 AM PST by servo1969
The Pentagon has known for nearly twenty years about major reporting lapses to the FBI of criminals within the U.S. military, The Associated Press reports.
The AP discovered a 1997 report that detailed massive fingerprint reporting lapses of military criminals with the U.S. Navy and the Navy failed to report 94 percent of cases. “The lack of reporting to the FBI criminal history files prevents civilian law enforcement agencies from having significant information on military offenders,” the report warned 20 years ago.
Military criminal reporting to the FBI has come under renewed scrutiny after former U.S. Air Force enlisted criminal Devin Kelley killed 26 people in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church Sunday. Kelley, 26, was convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault under court martial in 2012, under U.S. law this should have barred him from ever purchasing a firearm.
The U.S. Air Force, however, admitted error in failing to report Kelley’s conviction to the FBI’s background check system that allowed him to legally purchase firearms on four different occasions, including the murder weapon. “Initial information indicates that Kelley’s domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations,” Air Force Spokesman Ann Stefanek noted in a Monday evening statement.
The problem may be just as widespread today as it was in 1997. The U.S. military has reported only one misdemeanor domestic violence case to the FBI’s background check system widely used by sellers of firearms, a previous Daily Caller News Foundation review revealed. The absolute vast majority of cases reported to the system by the U.S. military have been dishonorable discharges, numbering approximately 11,000 as of Dec 31, 2016.
I don’t blame the military, I blame lazy civilian bureaucrats within the system.................
Military judicial proceedings should be part of the public domain. If a military member is convicted of the equivalent of a felony, it should immediately be entered into all registers.
Wouldn't surprise me if the Obama administration hacks went through all of these records and UNFLAGGED individuals who were denied firearm purchases.
One of the problems with military reporting as well as for LE agencies, is that when someone is arrested for a crime and fingerprints taken they cannot submit them as they have yet to be found guilty. Only after the perk’s conviction can the prints be added to the data base. At this point an inadvertent failure occurs.IMO
Misdemeanor? No one pays attention to that stuff.
Lautenberg made something a disqualification that isn’t a serious crime.
The only thing the instant check database ought to flag are felonies. Period.
I was discharged from the Navy in late 1984 so about a year before that there was a Yeoman on our ship from Massachusetts who was a real Hellraiser. He just couldn’t stay out of trouble when we got into port, mostly alcohol related problems. He ended up getting a bad conduct discharge. When I got out I ended up working in Massachusetts and one day I stopped in where he lived for a visit. He was working for the Post Office and doing okay for himself. I asked him how he managed to get a government job with a BCD and he said that since he was a Yeoman, had access to the proper forms and knew what to do he just made himself up paperwork showing he received an honorable discharge. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
I would have turned him for falsifying official documents.
Probably explains why so many nutjobs end up working
at the post office.
Yes,indeed— allow bureaucratic screw ups to happen by the expected piss-poor “VA” type civilian contractors sitting on their asses and skipping essential legal details of enforcement of the current laws.
It is Orwellian the mentation you describe— and quite accurate. Marxism/Nazism/totalitarianism requires a suppressed population of proles. “Useful idiot” liberals and rinos have to position themselves as passive— as they remove our ability to stop THEM and, more importantly foreign enemies who have been infiltrated into our country (”domesticated” foreign terror cells). This is right out of the Comintern handbook checklist. The Nazis made gun ownership by Jews illegal— the vast numbers of sub-mentality SA however were GIVEN firearms, and a govt. stipend.
Bingo!
+1
I was no angel in the military myself, having went to a few Captain's Masts and reductions in rank before getting married, straightening up and getting out with an Honorable. Hindsight is wonderful but at the time I thought it was pretty clever of him.
If this is for convicted cases its not just a screw-up its a massive bureaucratic failure.
The same thought occurred to me yesterday, but in all likelihood such an operation would've left the white offenders "flagged". Community Organizer SOP, y'know.
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