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Pentagon Alerted to Trouble in Ranks

Reports over a decade have warned of recruits with criminal pasts and of the
violent behavior of some active-duty service members.
By Ken Silverstein

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 1, 2004

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon was warned repeatedly going back a decade that it
was accepting military recruits with criminal histories and was too lenient
with those already in uniform who exhibited violent or other troubling
behavior.

Six studies prepared over 10 years by an outside expert at the Pentagon's
request found that too little was being done to discipline lawbreakers in
uniform or even identify problem recruits.

A 1998 study estimated that one-third of military recruits had arrest
records. A 1995 report found that one out of four Army career enlisted
personnel had committed one or more criminal offenses while on active duty.
Yet many were allowed to reenlist or received promotions. Some received good-
conduct medals or held top secret security clearances, the research found.

The 1995 study cited the case of one soldier who was promoted to sergeant
despite a record of behavior that included multiple assaults, drunk and
disorderly conduct, property destruction and obstructio n of justice.

As recently as last year, only a month before some of the worst abuses of
Iraqi detainees occurred at Abu Ghraib prison, one of the reports said some
troops were in positions "where destructive acts could have the most serious
consequences."

"An immediate problem faced by Defense is that there are military personnel
with pre-service and in-service records that clearly establish a pattern of
substandard behavior," the 2003 report said.

"These individuals constitute a high-risk group for destructive behavior and
need to be identified."

The September 2003 study, titled "Reducing the Threat of Destructive Behavior
by Military Personnel" and released to The Times with the Pentagon's
permission, was written by Eli S. Flyer, a former senior analyst at the
Defense Department and a longtime Pentagon consultant.

It examined recruiting of active-duty troops and misconduct by uniformed
personnel once they entered the armed forces. Military reservists undergo the
same screening process as active-duty troops, Flyer said.

Although the Pentagon adopted some new procedures, they were not adequate,
Flyer's most recent report said. The military services have resisted
improving screening procedures because that "would reduce applicant supply,"
the 2003 report said, alluding to problems some services have had in recent
years meeting recruitment goals.

"Critically important, development of applicant screening procedures to
identify individuals with behavior disorders has lagged, contributing to
suitability problems and destructive acts occurring later during active
duty," the report said.

Flyer's most recent study said steps needed to be taken to reduce the "wide
range of destructive acts committed by military personnel," including
sabotage, serial murder and rape.

The Army recently announced that it had opened investigations into at least
91 cases of possible misconduct by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and
Afghanistan. In addition to violent crim es committed against detainees, the
charges include assaults and thefts committed against civilians.

"One would hope Defense is doing a thorough investigation of their
backgrounds," Flyer said.

Flyer said Bill Carr, the Pentagon's acting deputy undersecretary for
military personnel policy, requested last September's report. Carr was not
available for an interview.

Curtis Gilroy, who oversees military recruiting as director of the Pentagon's
office of accession policy, said the screening process for recruits
was "pretty good" but acknowledged some shortcomings.

It is hard to "pick out all the bad apples," Gilroy said, "but we are
striving to improve the system and are doing so — from recruiters to the
military entrance processing stations to the initial training sites. We are
taking screening very seriously and will be more vigilant at all steps of the
recruiting and accession process."

One measure of the overall problem is provided by the record of a special
Defen se Department screening program called the Personnel Reliability
Program, or PRP, which is designed to ensure that only persons of sound
character were assigned to duty involving nuclear weapons. Between 1987 and
1990, three individuals approved by the PRP committed murders while on active
duty.

In a 1986 case, the Navy gave a PRP clearance to a man known to be a suspect
in an unsolved murder. Three years later, when the man was a fire control
technician on a nuclear submarine, he was charged in the murder of an elderly
couple while off duty. He was later convicted.

In an interview, Flyer said it was too early to know if the problems he found
could have contributed to the situation at Abu Ghraib or to other misconduct
cases that came to light in Iraq and Afghanistan, although at least two cases
involved veterans with checkered backgrounds.

Most of the names of those being investigated have not been released, but in
at least two high-profile cases men who are charged with committing cri mes
had entered the military despite previous problems.

Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr., an accused ringleader in the abuse of Iraqi
detainees at Abu Ghraib, served in the Gulf War in a Marine reserve unit. He
reenlisted in the Army in 2001, joining a reserve unit at a time when
allegations of violent behavior had been made against him in two civil court
proceedings. His wife alleged in divorce proceedings in 2000 that he beat
her, and she obtained three "protection of abuse" orders against him, court
records show.

An inmate at a state prison where Graner worked filed a lawsuit against him
and other guards in 1999 for allegedly kicking and beating him, according to
court records. Graner denied abusing the prisoner. The case was dismissed in
2000 when the man, who by then had been released from prison, failed to
appear in court.

Graner's attorney in Texas, Guy Womack, did not return phone calls seeking
comment.

David Passaro is accused of beating a detainee in Afgha nistan so badly that
the man later died. Passaro joined the Army in 1992 and later became a
Ranger, after he was fired from the Hartford, Conn., Police Department for
allegedly assaulting a man during an off-duty brawl, police and court records
show.

At the time of the alleged incident in Afghanistan in 2003, Passaro was
working as a civilian contractor for the CIA. The indictment against him
charges that he beat an Afghan detainee, Abdul Wali, with his hands, feet and
a large flashlight during interrogation June 19 and June 20. Wali died the
next day.

Thomas McNamara, a North Carolina public defender who represents Passaro, did
not return phone calls.

Flyer worked at the Pentagon for 28 years, retiring in 1979 as staff director
for enlistment standards for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense. Since then, he has been hired by the Pentagon as an outside
consultant to write dozens of reports.

His 1998 report estimated that about one- third of recruits had arrest
records and many were not detected.

Potential recruits with a criminal record can enlist in the armed forces if
they receive a moral character waiver. Flyer's 1998 report said that of the
estimated 3.5 million recruits who entered the military service between 1978
and 1989, 300,000 had enlisted with a moral character waiver, most for a
criminal arrest record.

The report said that those enlisting with a moral waiver were more likely
than others to get into criminal trouble or be discharged for bad behavior.

The Pentagon addressed the use of moral character wa
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      efore being confirmed for the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis was known as the
      People's Lawyer because he was pro-labor and fought monopolies and trusts. It
      took months before the Senate agreed to put this "Radical" on the court as the
      first Jew in its history. Brandeis was particularly passionate about the right
      to privacy, and one of his dissents on that issue foresaw the Bush-Ashcroft
      administration's ominous assaults on that right.

      In 1928, the first wiretapping case, Olmstead v. U.S., came before the Court. A
      majority of Brandeis's brethren ruled that wiretapping a phone without a
      warrant did not violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments because the taps were
      planted outside the home.

      Brandeis, who was widely read and suspicious of government's overreaching
      tentacles, wrote prophetically that "in the application of a constitution, our
      contemplation cannot be only of what has been, but of what may be. The progress
      of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely
      to stop with wiretapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the
      government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in
      court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate
      occurrences of the home. . . . Can it be that the Constitution affords no
      protection against such invasions of individual security?"

      Brandeis could not anticipate the advent of the computer and the Internet, but
      his prophecy has come true. Already, as Reuters reported last December 12, the
      FBI has asked "Internet service providers to install technology in their
      networks that allows officials to secretly read e-mails of criminal
      investigation targets." That molestation of privacy was called "Carnivore." But
      the FBI has developed an even more insidious device to obtain "the most
      intimate occurrences of the home"—and office.

      Beware of "The Magic Lantern." Under the "sneak and peek" provision of the USA
      Patriot Act, pushed through Congress by John Ashcroft, the FBI, with a warrant,
      can break into your home and office when you're not there and, on the first
      trip, look around. They can examine your hard drive, snatch files, and plant
      the Magic Lantern on your computer. It's also known as the "sniffer keystroke
      logger."

      Jim Dempsey, deputy director of the Washington-based Center for Democracy and
      Technology, tells me that you have to be remarkably computer-savvy to detect
      the presence of the Magic Lantern in some crevice in your computer.

      Once installed, the Magic Lantern creates a record of every time you press a
      key on the computer. It's all saved in plain text, and during the FBI's next
      secret visit to your home or office, that information is downloaded as the
      agents also pick up whatever other records and papers they find of interest.

      Dempsey, who has been my guide to increasingly invasive technology for years,
      points out that this new version of J. Edgar Hoover's "black bag jobs" is not
      subject to the "sunset" clause of the USA Patriot Act, which requires Congress
      to review in four years much of the rest of that law to see if Ashcroft went
      too far in dismantling the Constitution. These legal break-ins, including the
      use of the Magic Lantern, are not limited to investigations of terrorism but
      are now part of regular criminal investigations.

      By the way, in case you might be just musing at the computer—typing in thoughts
      or theories you don't intend to send—the Magic Lantern will capture those
      strokes, too.

      Under previous law, the FBI had to let you know right away when they've made
      these uninvited visits in your absence, and tell you what they've taken. The
      agents may have gone to the wrong address, which is not unheard of, or gotten a
      bad lead, or manifestly exceeded their authority. On being given swift notice
      of the FBI's burglaries, you could quickly challenge the search.

      But under the USA Patriot Act, the FBI can go to a judge and get permission for
      a "delayed notice" of up to 90 days. Moreover, during this open-ended Justice
      Department war on terrorism, the FBI can keep going to court for
      further "delayed notices," since part of these secret searches may ostensibly
      be concerned with terrorism.

      And, Jim Dempsey notes, if they don't find anything the first and second times,
      they can keep breaking into your home or office until they come across a
      smoking gun. Eventually, they'll have to tell you they've been there.

      But Justice Brandeis predicted that the government one day would be able to
      remove private materials without physically having to go into your home or
      office. Well, never underestimate the capacity of advancing technology to
      further diminish what little is left of your privacy.

      Reuters also has reported that the Magic Lantern would allow "the agency [the
      FBI] to plant a Trojan horse keystroke logger on a target's PC by sending a
      computer virus over the Internet, rather than require physical access to the
      computer as is now the case."

      The Reuters December 12 story quotes the FBI as claiming the Magic Lantern "is
      a workbench project" that has not yet been deployed. But I have a copy of a May
      8, 1999, application to a United States District Court in New Jersey from a
      U.S. Attorney in that state at the time, Faith Hochberg. It authorizes
      a "surreptitious entry" to search and seize "encryption key related pass
      phrases from [a] computer by installing a specialized computer program . . .
      which will allow the Government to read and interpret data that was previously
      seized pursuant to a search warrant."

      The application also asks permission for the FBI or its delegated entities to
      enter the location "surreptitiously, covertly, and by breaking and entering, if
      necessary"—and "as many times as may be necessary to install, maintain and
      remove the software, firmware or hardware."

      So a precursor of the Magic Lantern was in use back then—under Clinton's FBI—
      and it is Jim Dempsey's belief, and mine, that the state-of-the-art Magic
      Lantern is now in the field, among us. The FBI already told Reuters in December
      that it uses keystroke loggers. So beware of what you stroke.


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