Alaska National Guard Report calls for apology...for enabling and covering up Rapes and Murder

The problems within the Alaska National Guard stretch back years. Military chaplains went to Parnell in 2010 with an assertion that a “culture of fear and corruption are smothering morale.” The chaplains’ whistleblowing was well documented in media accounts over the past year, and the Collins report also singles out the chaplains for their efforts in bringing the guard’s many problems to light. Rick Koch, who served as a lieutenant colonel and was statewide command chaplain for the guard, told Collins the past five years were “more stressful than his war-zone deployments.”

Parnell turned repeatedly to his top guard commander, Maj. Gen. Thomas Katkus, for a resolution to the complaints. Then the National Guard Bureau in the Pentagon issued its report last September that showed leadership failures at the very top allowed a toxic and corrupt climate of sexual assaults, sexual misconduct, misuse of guard equipment and fraud.


At a news conference Monday in Anchorage announcing the report, Gov. Bill Walker said it was time to look ahead but not forget what went wrong.

“Sometimes you can’t get into the future until you resolve the past,” Walker said.


The report recommends the state apologize for “past mishandling of victim complaints and privacy rights within the Alaska National Guard.” Some victims said their identities were improperly disclosed to others in the guard, adding to their distress.


The woman “prematurely died under unusual circumstances before making a formal report of the sexual assault to police,” Collins wrote.

With the system for reporting rape within the National Guard broken, Clark was among a group of victims who turned to a trusted confidant, Lt. Col. Ken Blaylock. He said in previous interviews that she came to him out of fear for her life and was planning to tell him more after a weekend, but died before that happened.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150615/report-calls-apology-accountability-toxic-culture-alaska-national-guard



I really get the impression that they are just going to let this go, allow someone to be murdered so obviously....

and who was supposed to be investigating this?

Alaska's new Koch Senator Dan Sullivan

FBI investigated National Guard Scandal when Sullivan was attorney general
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/25/1338130/-AK-Sen-FBI-Investigated-Alaska-National-Guard-While-Sullivan-R-Was-Attorney-General

Over the weekend, under court order, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell released some emails requested by Alaska Public Media and Alaska Dispatch News related to the state's National Guard sexual assault scandal. However, the emails were incomplete and some heavily redacted, leaving open the question of whether Alaska GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan knew of allegations of sexual assault within the Guard when he was attorney general.

Alaska GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan claims that he did not know about reported sexual assault within the state's National Guard when he was the state's attorney general until after the allegations became public. But Republican Gov. Sean Parnell won't release the records to prove it.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/alaska-national-guard-scandal-records-dan-sullivan


Did Dan Sullivan know about sexual assault scandal- he won't say



How do we get some serious investigations and accountability here?

It's a chance to get Sullivan thrown out of office, who had his job bought by the Koch brothers.

Begich deserves that seat back, anyone up for another Dem in the Senate?

Where is that 'far left liberal media' when you need them?