And Mistress Dawson
My what a freak show the Army has become. You used to have to pay a quarter in North Beach to see stuff like this.
Posted on 08/04/2023 9:08:25 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, Army Training and Doctrine Command Deputy Commander, and Army Maj. Jessica Dawson, a West Point associate professor, used their authority and government access in an attempt to unofficially investigate and punish an active-duty whistleblower for criticizing the Biden administration and various Army leaders.
According to private text messages and emails obtained by Breitbart News, Gervais and Dawson used official government resources to hunt for the anonymous whistleblower, identify them, and have them punished for speaking against the Biden administration and Army leadership, despite a lack of evidence.
Despite lacking evidence, Gervais and Dawson reportedly labeled the whistleblower an “insider threat” and repeatedly accused him of serving as “counterintelligence.” Breitbart News noted that the accusations by Gervais and Dawson were seemingly used as an effort to involve the Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID), which has the power as an independent agency to investigate serious felonies.
According to Pat Wier, a Navy reservist and civilian defense attorney, an investigation by CID would first require the designation of a significant threat. He described Gervais and Dawson’s accusations as “wrongful.”
“His alleged actions did not rise to the level of a serious crime, or any crime at all,” Wier said. Instead, Breitbart reported that based on private communications, the investigation seems to have been an attempt by military officials to utilize government powers to punish the whistleblower for political dissent.
According to Breitbart, Gervais and Dawson’s investigation lasted almost a year, aided by current and former progressive military members. The investigation resulted in the public identification of the suspected whistleblower, an Army general’s former aide filing an inspector general complaint against the whistleblower, and the inspector general’s system being politically weaponized against the whistleblower’s social media posts that criticized the Biden administration.
The inspector general complaint resulted in a 15-6 investigation into the whistleblower, which led to Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Samuel Shoemate being charged for violating Army Regulation 600-20 by “posting derogatory and disrespectful images/memes on multiple social accounts … towards different Senior Officials and Military Leaders.”
The 15-6 investigation also claimed that Shoemate had violated Uniform Code of Military Justice Articles 88 (Contempt towards Senior Officials), 89 (Disrespect toward Superior Commissioned Officers, 133 (Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer and Gentleman), and DOD Instruction 5400.17 Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Purposes.
According to Breitbart News, the officer in charge of the 15-6 investigation officially recommended “appropriate adverse administrative action and/or appropriate UCMJ action” against the whistleblower. Shoemate was eventually given a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand and retired from the U.S. Army on Aug. 1, 2023.
Shoemate has indicated that he will publicly speak about the incident in the future. The retired Army member recently told Breitbart News, “The DOD publicly boasts about its adherence to the law with numerous checks and balances in place to prevent unlawful conduct, but the shadow policy it actually operates under allows senior officers and officials to act with impunity as seen here. “
Shoemate claimed Gervais’s collusion with “other senior officials” to carry out an unofficial investigation of an active military member “with the use of government resources is an example of “larger, systemic abuses observed within the DOD in recent years.”
The Star Club operates on it’s own rules and customs.
Women.......................
This is a story of female military brass with WAY too much time on their hands to defend their country against a TRUE enemy.
Will the medal they get for trying to protect democracy come with a cluster? 🤔
The rats have controlled the military 11 of the last 15 years. This is the result.
These are the fruits of diversity. Communism. Totalitarianism. Silencing of all opposition.
But it feels SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO damn good to have women and minorities in affirmative action positions..... ahhhhhhhhhh so good......
Chairman Mao would have been proud of their apparent fanatical devotion to The Party.
He might have even named an unofficial Interrogation Chamber after them.
she looks like a tranny. Must be another obama general
DOD Instruction 5400.17 Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Purposes.
......................................
That policy doesn’t apply to private social media.
bttt
This is no star club. This is estrogen versus testosterone.
They sure sound like a couple of angry females. You can’t criticize the dumbest president the American people have ever seen? Yikes. Why didn’t they go after the Vindman Bros. when they were attacking and lying about PRESIDENT TRUMP? Vindman should have been JSixed and turned over to Jamaican Gone Wild Judge Tanya.
And Mistress Dawson
My what a freak show the Army has become. You used to have to pay a quarter in North Beach to see stuff like this.
Another reason NOT to join
Sue those women for using government resources in this witch hunt. Force the Army’s hand since it will not act on it’s own. (Retired Army Field Grade Officer)
A list of these traitors needs to be made and sent to President Trump for firing in Jan. 20 2024. We could have quite a list of these people by then and he could fire them all in one fell swoop.
How about General Douglas MacArthur? He never wore any medalso or decorations. A real underachiever.
I wonder if, in today’s army, there are ribbons for being part of the LGBTQ “community”.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.