{"id":37788,"date":"2013-10-01T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37788"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:41:01","slug":"marine-corps-jag-whistleblower-persecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37788","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps JAG whistleblower persecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/sep\/29\/marine-corps-whistleblower-faces-vengeance-from-su\/?page=all#pagebreak\">sent this article<\/a> about Marine JAG officer Maj. James Weirick who accuses Commandant James Amos of covering up his undue command influence in the case of the urinating Marines. Well Weirick has been fired because of his inquiry;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this month, Maj. Weirick sent an email to a lawyer who had worked on Gen. Amos\u2019 staff, urging him in pointed language to cooperate with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Marine higher-ups responded Tuesday with a series of retaliations against Maj. Weirick, Col. Siegel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Marines escorted Maj. Weirick out of his office and seized his government computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 He was transferred to a nonlegal job as a training officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 His new commander suggested that he get a mental health evaluation and report for an interview with a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, to whom he refused to talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The major was ordered not to communicate with officials, including Gen. Amos, and was denied leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 He was told to turn over his licensed personal firearms kept at home, which he did.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Corps also is doing a risk assessment to determine whether Maj. Weirick is a danger to himself or the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese steps are all designed for a single purpose and that is to undermine the credibility of Maj. Weirick, the credibility of his complaints to the [Defense Department inspector general] and to push him very close to the very edge of being able to drum him out of the Marine Corps,\u201d Col. Siegel said. \u201cI\u2019ve been practicing military justice exclusively for 40 years, 25 of which were in the Marine Corps, and I have never seen anything quite this destructive carried out by people who I considered to be heroes, the commandant of the Marine Corps.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike writes to tell us that he knows the Major and that he&#8217;s a good Marine and JAG officer.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m sure that it was the toughest decision that the commandant and his staff ever made. The whole urinating Marines thing is silly, anyway. We all knew it was a purely political decision to court martial the folks involved motivated by an overblown media attack on the military as a whole. I&#8217;d piss on the whole lot of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent this article about Marine JAG officer Maj. James Weirick who accuses &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Corps JAG whistleblower persecuted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37788\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Corps JAG whistleblower persecuted<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}