Posted on 12/19/2007 10:09:06 AM PST by jazusamo
After months of congressional pressure, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has opened an investigation of an Army general who tried to bring murder charges against U.S. troops.
The investigation, requested by Rep. Walter B. Jones, North Carolina Republican, will probe whether Lt. Gen. Francis H. Kearney III overstepped his bounds and/or compromised legal proceedings in two Afghanistan incidents, one involving Marines and the other involving two Special Forces soldiers.
The general's orders, to redeploy a Marine unit and probe the soldiers, were first reported in The Washington Times in October.
"I am troubled by the premeditated-murder charges levied against Master Sergeant Troy Anderson and Captain Dave Staffel" of Special Forces, said Mr. Jones, in an October letter to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. "Based on his own statements, Lieutenant General Frank Kearney directed that charges be brought against these two American heroes despite the fact that the two soldiers were exonerated by the Army's Criminal Investigation Command."
Mr. Jones was notified this month that the IG Office had opened an investigation and was reviewing documents and conducting interviews.
The IG "has been provided with a copy of Representative Jones' letter to the secretary of defense regarding Lieutenant General Kearney and is looking into the matter," said Gary Comerford, spokesman for the office. "Since this matter is under review, it would be inappropriate to make any further statements."
The three-star general angered many Army Special Forces and Marine Special Operations Command members when he tried twice to bring legal actions against U.S. forces.
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We don’r want this turd in Alaska. Let him bunk with you!
LTC West is one hulluva sojer. He spent a few years with we Marines here at Camp Lejeune a few years ago.
Semper Fidelis,
fontman
DEJA VU.
So when an SJA says "This is my recommendation" is that the signal for these generals to shove their heads up their a$$es?
I’m hesitant to denigrate most General Officers but I really have my doubts about this one.
Talk about your clasic black hole.
I did find him associtaed with RANGERS or at least a RANGER asociation.
The only canned bio was this little bit --
March 2005
Brigadier General Francis H. Kearney III, Assistant Division Commander (Maneuver), 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kansas to Commander, Special Operations Command Central, United States Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
Maybe I'm not looking in all the right places, but no books, no papers, no announcements as speaker, etc,etc.
'Bout the only thing I could find was about the latest bruhaha over the Marines and pressing charges on a couple of SPECOPS guys.
What did I miss??
I’ve looked a little in the past myself and what you came up with is about all I found.
If the results of this investigation are made public which I’m not convinced they will be, we may find out some more.
The glaring thing that strikes me as strange is that supposedly two separate investigations were done on the two SPECOPS guys and both cleared them but Kearney went for the charges anyway, very strange, IMO.
When pigs fly!!!! No way do I even want him near my home. Don’t you have some desolate places up there where you could put him? :0 )
Thanks for the ping! Racing through...will check out later!
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