Naval Inspector General Releases Documents On Kerry Awards ‘Investigation’

JudicialWatch.org ^ | 12 October 2004 | JUDICIALWATCH.ORG

[MikefromOhio]

Review Of Washington Post And Newsweek Articles Exhausts Efforts Of The Naval IG Office

Navy Secretary Refuses To Conduct Independent Inquiry

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, stated today that it received a response from the Naval Inspector General (IG) to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) open records request for Navy IG records documenting the investigation of the awards and conduct of Lieutenant (jg) John Forbes Kerry, USNR. The request was prompted by a Sept. 17, 2004, letter from Vice Admiral Ronald Route, the Naval IG, to Judicial Watch. Admiral Route declined to investigate the circumstances of Kerry’s awards and conduct because it would not have been “productive.”

The records produced under FOIA reveal that the Naval IG’s “investigation” of the circumstances surrounding Kerry’s awards and conduct as a U.S. Navy officer consisted strictly of a review of existing files and archived regulations. While Navy Public Affairs officers originally told the press that there was no investigation being conducted concerning Judicial Watch’s request, the Naval IG’s records prove the Navy Public Affairs’ statements were misleading.

The substance of what would have been a legitimate investigation – interviews of eyewitnesses, reviews of travel records, transcripts, FBI files and other relevant material – were not pursued by Naval IG investigators. Instead, Admiral Route and his investigators exhausted their investigative efforts reviewing a Washington Post article from Aug. 22, 2004, and a Newsweek report from the Aug. 30, 2004, edition. The unnamed investigator(s) also relied on Kerry’s presidential campaign Internet site to conduct the investigation.

In separate correspondence dated Oct. 5, 2004, from Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England (click here), Judicial Watch learned that Secretary England has embraced Admiral Route’s “investigation” and has declined to take any independent investigative or administrative action with respect to Kerry’s awards or conduct.

“It’s clear that both the uniformed and civilian leadership of the U.S. Navy view the Kerry matter as a political ‘hot potato.’ The leadership of the Navy has failed to ensure its awards process was not corrupted. This is shameful,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

[MikefromOhio]

it appears that Kerry has a friend or at least an ally in the naval IG...any comments?

[MikefromOhio]

Ping!!!

[Phantom Lord]

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption,

Let me retype this so that it is correct...

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and files suits over government corruption, which we so far have yet to win a single one...

[queenkathy]

wonderful job...Some investigation huh

[xzins]

Freedom of information request for the records. Why didn't they get the records?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think, wisely, the Navy's office of IG has refused to be drawn into a political squabble.

[boxerblues]

ping

[SF Republican]

Kerry has a friend or at least an ally in the naval IG well duh - do you really think the navy will pee on one of its own officers that is running for President?

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[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Naval JAG made it's vote: They're going for Kerry all the way. These HAVE to buddies with the USAF guys who are combing through every iota of documentation on Bush, who keep finding "one more document", but can deliver nothing on Kerry.

They've dishonored their uniform and are unfaithful to the oath they took upon their commission.

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