Time: Thu May 22 07:08:15 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA03290; Thu, 22 May 1997 06:36:03 -0700 (MST) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA10634; Thu, 22 May 1997 06:35:57 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 07:04:03 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: SNET: "Until We Have Answers" (fwd) <snip> > >By: >Kathy Delia McDaniel >THE LOUISIANA KITCHEN MILITIA >1109 West Port Street >DeRidder, LA 70634 >P/F: 318-463-6574 > >Amidst the scandals that seem to haunt the Clinton Administration, a Senate hearing of the Subcommittee on Arm Services' Personnel (S. Hearing 104-823) in September 1996, seems to have slipped into the dark crevices, secluded from the public's oversight. Scanning more than a decade and encompassing three presidencies, Democrats and Republicans, the 103rd, 104th and now the 105th Congress, this story must be told! The Subcommittee on Personnel chaired by Sen. Dirk Kempthorne; an arm of Sen. Strom Thurmond's Committee on Armed Services met in Room SH-216, of the Hart Senate Office Building on September 12, 1996. > >According to Sen. Kempthorne in his opening statement, the purpose of the meeting was to review a "heart-wrenching issue of American soldiers whose lives were lost through tragic circumstances." The chairman continued, "Since 1982, 3,084 soldiers died as a result of what military investigators say were self-inflicted causes." > >Principal witnesses who appeared before the committee representing the armed services establishment were impressive: Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Doherty - Commanding General, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command; Hon. Eleanor Hill, Inspector General - Department of Defense; Director Roy D. Nedrow - Naval Criminal Investigative Services, and Brig. Gen. Francis X. Taylor, USAF - Commander - Air Force Office of Special Investigations. > >The deceased military personnel were represented by their parents and family members, five appearing in person, additionally 27 giving written statements. Mrs. Linda Shults, "designated leader" of Until We Have Answers, an organization formed to look into the suspicious deaths of their loved ones, stated in her oral comments to the panel that, "Time and time again, a self-inflicted finding has been supported by the Office of the Inspector General in death situations that have astounded experts." "For example," she stated, "missing guns, missing shell casings, unidentified blood stains, broken bones, superhuman feats worthy of Houdini, such as hanging yourself with your hands chained behind your back, the destruction of all physical evidence at the command's wish within a few months after the death, theft of all personal property, sloppy and incomplete pathology by the armed services, bizarre and incomplete preparation of psychological autopsies, and most certainly, leading and inappropriate interviews with witnesses, friends and families, and in some cases, no interviews with them." > >Mrs. Shults was joined by Mrs. Cassandra Alleyne, mother of DT3 Paul R. Mamby (dec) who, in addition to numerous others, supported and commented additionally on the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths of their loved ones, concluded, "The organization, Until We Have Answers will not rest until justice is served and change is implemented. We will not stop writing letters, we will not stop asking questions, we will not stop marching, we will not go away until we have answers and change." > >Mr. Christopher Rush, a retired New York City police officer and former special deputy with the United States Marshals Service has personally investigated or was consulted on approximately 100 cases of unattended deaths and homicides. Having been retained 4 years ago by families of the deceased, commented that it was his professional judgment that "in some instances, murder went unpunished," as a consequence of minimum standards not being attained. > >Page after page of sworn statements, and or testimony alluding to a gigantic cover-up of murders. The 268 page transcript reads like a made-for-TV movie; with references to illegal activities within the military. Bodies returned with "no brains;" organs removed (eviscerated). Indications of cover-ups aided and abetted by military personnel. One case in particular is that of a young military man who died in Germany. His mother, who was unable to be in attendance at the hearing because of illness, discovered after having "her own pathologist standing by to receive his body," that "his prostate gland" was missing. Mrs. Shults asked, "What autopsy information would they want to take just those two organs?" > >Dr. John Sabow, brother of U.S. Marine Corps Colonel James E. Sabow, 51-year-old commander of all Western Air Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps was found shot to death in his backyard in El Toro, California. Dr. Sabow, a board certified neurologist and board qualified expert in internal medicine stated the following for the record: > >"I appear before you today as a battle-weary veteran of 6 long years of constant administrative struggle, in which I have attempted, as have many of the other men and women here, to make use of every avenue of Defense Department administrative review which the U.S. Congress has made available to the families of servicemen and women to review the initial incompetent military death investigations of their loved ones. I am here today to inform you that the system of internal military administrative review procedures of such in-service death investigations presently made available by Congress is absolutely insufficient, as a matter of practice, and as a matter of law. No confidence whatsoever on the part of the American family, to whom Congress asked us to loan our loved ones is given us." > >Continuing, Dr. Sabow stated: > >"I am here today because of the non-combat violent deaths of over 3,000 young men and women over the past decade, while they were serving their country on active military duty. All of these deaths were ruled by the United States military investigative services to have been self-inflicted, every one. The deaths among these 3,000 which bring us here today occurred under very suspicious circumstances, but all of them were ruled by the military to have been self-inflicted. > >"I have not contacted every one of them, but with whom I have spoken; all have expressed profound disappointment in their government. There is disappointment in the military service that was supposed to take care of these servicemen and women, disappointment in military investigative agencies that were required by law to conduct professional, objective investigations into the manner of deaths, disappointment in many of our elected representatives, who rather than personally get involved, have assigned their investigations to aides who seem to be more interested in protecting their senator or their congressman from a controversial issue if circumstances and the truth would become public and well known." > >"The greatest disappointment," according to Dr. Sabow which was shared by many others, "is in our country whose leaders plainly have an agenda that values the establishment over the individual, form over fact, expedience over truth. All of us morn the loss of our loved ones, but we also morn the loss of respect that we all have had for our country." [Emphasis added.] > >Sadly, Dr. Sabow concluded, "In our search for the truth we have been overwhelmed by the lack of sensitivity shown by the military, and the arrogance of the DOD investigators, but most of all by the perception that our government is attempting to hide the truth and obstruct justice." "Indeed," he said, "many of these American families have been forced to the conclusion that agents of our own government have played some active role in the deaths of our loved ones, and not simply a passive role after the fact." [Emphasis added.] > > >SOURCE: >The Practices and Procedures of the Investigative Services of the Department of Defense and the Military Departments Concerning the Investigations into the Deaths of Military Personnel Which May Have Resulted from Self-Inflicted Causes Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, 104th Congress, 09/12/96, S. Hrg. 104-823. > >For a complete copy (268 pages) of the transcript of these hearings you may contact the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. or > >Walter Stinson >The Louisiana Kitchen Militia >P & P (Pots & Pans) Division >1011 Garden Drive, Westlake, La. 70669 >P/F: 318-439-4948. > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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