Gray\u2019s ordeal began in April 2008 after I covered the Arlington funeral of an officer killed in the Iraq war. While there, I observed a dispute between Gray and deputy superintendent Thurman Higginbotham, the man later at the center of the Arlington scandals. Higginbotham was trying to prevent reporters from observing the burial, in violation of the family\u2019s wishes and Arlington\u2019s regulations \u2014 and Gray, though new on the job, told him he was wrong.<\/p>\n
Gray registered her objections internally \u2014 but loudly. She refused to sign off on a report to the Army secretary\u2019s office that was a whitewash of the way burials were handled at Arlington because, she said, her higher-ups were violating Defense Department regulations. She began to learn of other misdeeds by Arlington management and attempted to let military officials know; in June 2008, according to one of Gray\u2019s legal filings, she told the commanding general of the Military District of Washington about \u201cmajor problems\u201d at the cemetery, involving fraud, mismanagement and broken regulations.<\/p>\n
Two days later, she was fired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
DoD’s inspector general has recommended that Gray be compensated for her wrongful termination as a whistleblower, but Milbanks writes that he got a statement from the Army Secretary’s office stating that they won’t pay her because she was on a probationary status when she was terminated. Gray’s whistleblowing resulted in a housecleaning among the upper echelon of the the staff at Arlington for their gross mismanagement, most of them were allowed to retire, but Gray was fired outright for exposing them. She remains unemployed and had to drop her lawsuit against the DoD because she ran out of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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