[PurpleMan]

Three Items: 1) The text of the letter is in the link 2) Very odd indeed that S&S dimed out a DoD person/organization. S&S is a DoD publication. Sounds like a vendetta to me. 3) America Supports You is prominently displayed on the FR homepage. It this organization has been involved with, what could be called, "nefarious activities by unethical leadership, then it should be considered whether FR should continue it's association with ASY.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why anyone would write to numbskull McCaskill is beyong me...

[airborne]

Not sure what to think, but this passage caught my eye. It seems so...DomocratSpeak - Beaver wrote. "At a minimum, there is an appearance of impropriety by these officials."

[xJones]

In the letter, obtained by Stars and Stripes, former AFIS General Counsel Diane Beaver accuses Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for internal communications and public liaison, and acting Stripes publisher Max Lederer of violations regarding how America Supports You was funded and how money was spent.

Okay, Ms. Beaver's going after Ms. Barber and somebody named Max. The whole thing sounds highly personal to me.

[SkyPilot]

S&S is a DoD publication.

Well, sort of. They are an independent news organization.

They do receieve some non-appropriated subsidy funds, and are authorized by the DoD to be distributed and sold in military facilities.

Stars and Stripes is a Department of Defense-authorized daily newspaper distributed overseas for the U.S. military community. Editorially independent of interference from outside its own editorial chain-of-command, it provides commercially available U.S. and world news and objective staff-produced stories relevant to the military community in a balanced, fair, and accurate manner. By keeping its audience informed, Stars and Stripes enhances military readiness and better enables U.S. military personnel and their families stationed overseas to exercise their responsibilities of citizenship. — Revised DoD Directive 5122.11

http://www.stripes.com/webpages.asp?id=97

[HiJinx]

This is a resurfacing of old news. ASY has been in someone’s crosshairs for years, the essence of this story has been posted here before.

Disclosure...I’m the president of an America Supports You homefront group.