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Saw another good program recently about the Special Forces working with Montagnards, I think in NhaTrang, if I remember correctly, "Unsung Heroes". Also, taped movie last night, have forgotten name, about Don Scott and MAJ Phalen getting the 'Yards from a refugee camp to the US.
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FBI Agent Fans Flames With Charge
By: Todd Lighty
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 30, 2002
A veteran FBI agent in Chicago is accusing his supervisors of mishandling terrorism investigations and is suggesting that the bureau be stripped of such responsibilities.
In what could amount to an unusual public spat between an active-duty agent and the bureau, Robert Wright Jr. plans to air his complaints Thursday during a news conference in Washington.
"The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad," Wright wrote in a statement he shared with the agency weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.
In it, he also said a top-to-bottom review should be conducted of the bureau's hiring procedures, mission, investigative procedures and organizational structure.
Wright's planned news conference follows an announcement Wednesday by U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft that the FBI will undergo a broad reorganization of its "structure, culture and mission."
Wright, an agent since 1990, has had other public battles with colleagues and the bureau.
He has been investigated for allegedly harassing an Arab-American agent and for allegedly sexually harassing a female agent.
Wright filed a lawsuit in June 2001 against the female agent, alleging that her "false and malicious" charges resulted in his removal from the International Terrorist Squad. A U.S. District Court judge last October dismissed the lawsuit.
This month, Wright sued the bureau for blocking publication of a 500-page book about what he described as bungled investigations during the 1990s into fundraising by militant Islamic groups such as Hamas.
Agent John Vincent, a 27-year veteran, said the fact that Wright has had run-ins with co-workers and disagreed with his supervisors does not make him disloyal.
"Agent Wright is not a disgruntled employee," Vincent said. "Everything he has said is for the betterment of the job."
Wright is being represented by lawyer David Schippers, who served as the chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, and by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based public interest law firm that often sues the government.
Schippers could not be reached for comment. But Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said Wright has repeatedly made his concerns known to supervisors about how the bureau allegedly mishandled terrorism investigations.
Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune
May 30 8:03 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A popular Vietnamese actor criticized for playing a Communist commander in the Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers" says he'll take no more roles in foreign-made films about the Vietnam War.
Vietnam's state-controlled newspapers have described the movie as biased and have accused actor Don Duong of accepting a role that presents Communist soldiers in a poor light.
Duong said he didn't regret performing in the movie and had learned from the experience.
"I was very proud to play a character in a movie with Mel Gibson. It was up to the director, not me, to determine the nature of the movie," he said in a telephone interview.
"But I'm really sad about the criticism, and I swear never to play any role in other foreign-made movies about the Vietnam War."
The movie depicts a bloody three-day battle in Ia Drang valley between the North Vietnamese army and U.S. troops in November 1965.
It is based on the book "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" by retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore.
Duong said director Randall Wallace and Moore had described the character he played, Commander Nguyen Huu An, as a brave and direct man who led Vietnamese soldiers to victory.