{"id":38695,"date":"2013-12-02T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38695"},"modified":"2013-12-02T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:30:57","slug":"snitching-on-classmates-at-the-air-force-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38695","title":{"rendered":"Snitching on classmates at the Air Force Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/secretive-air-force-program-recruits-academy-cadets-to-inform-on-colleagues-and-disavows-them-1.255424\">The Colorado Springs Gazette<\/a> reports that the Air Force Office of Special investigations (OSI comparable to the Army&#8217;s CID and Navy&#8217;s NCIS) has been running confidential informants among the student body at the Air Force Academy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Eric Thomas, 24, was a confidential informant for the Office of Special Investigations, or OSI \u2014 a law enforcement branch of the Air Force. OSI ordered Thomas to infiltrate academy cliques, wearing recorders, setting up drug buys, tailing suspected rapists and feeding information back to OSI. In pursuit of cases, he was regularly directed by agents to break academy rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was exciting. And it was effective,\u201d said Thomas, a soccer and football player who received no compensation for his informant work. \u201cWe got 15 convictions of drugs, two convictions of sexual assault. We were making a difference. It was motivating, especially with the sexual assaults. You could see the victims have a sense of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, he thought OSI would have his back. But when an operation went wrong, he said, his handlers cut communication and disavowed knowledge of his actions, and watched as he was kicked out of the academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like a spy movie,\u201d said Thomas, who was expelled in April, a month before graduation. \u201cI worked on dozens of cases, did a lot of good, and when it all hit the fan, they didn\u2019t know me anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Air Force leadership denies knowing anything about the operations, but, well&#8230;you know. They probably want to gauge public reaction before they clamor for credit. I&#8217;m not sure that I know what my thoughts are on this. On the one hand, I&#8217;m glad that criminals have been removed from the officer corps, but, on the other hand, how are these petty criminals getting past the screening process? And I can&#8217;t help but think that pitting officer candidates against each other can&#8217;t be good for morale and readiness in the long run. I certainly had more respect and confidence in the officer than I do these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that the Air Force Office of Special investigations (OSI comparable to &hellip; <a title=\"Snitching on classmates at the Air Force Academy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38695\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snitching on classmates at the Air Force Academy<\/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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38695","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=38695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}