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- 1:51Speaker 1: You told me you couldn't even lucky for security. Oh suddenly,
- 1:57Speaker 1: say let's begin. Indeed, Hello everyone, and welcome to Honey
- 2:21Speaker 1: Badger Radio. My name is Brian and this is the
- 2:24Speaker 1: Fireside Chat and today we are continuing our series where
- 2:29Speaker 1: we're talking to people and with about their experiences either
- 2:33Speaker 1: directly or indirectly with the military justice system with regards
- 2:39Speaker 1: to false allegations and their consequences. And today I'm joined
- 2:44Speaker 1: by Holly. Welcome to the show. Holly. Yeah, it's good.
- 2:51Speaker 1: It's good to have you. You came highly recommended by
- 2:55Speaker 1: Arvis and others who have been on the show, and
- 2:59Speaker 1: apparently you have a story. It's not about you, it's
- 3:03Speaker 1: about your son, right, So first tell us a little
- 3:08Speaker 1: bit about yourself, your background, and I see your son's
- 3:11Speaker 1: Is that his picture right there next to you? Okay?
- 3:24Speaker 2: Thirty years. I retired in two thousand and six. While
- 3:30Speaker 2: I was a police officer, I was a patrolman on
- 3:32Speaker 2: the street, working out of a police car and handling calls.
- 3:37Speaker 2: That was my job. I'm also the oldest daughter of
- 3:40Speaker 2: four daughters, and I have two daughters of my own,
- 3:44Speaker 2: so women's issues have always been very important to me.
- 3:47Speaker 2: I've been an advocate for them, and I have been
- 3:50Speaker 2: especially sensitive to the issues of my female and my
- 3:55Speaker 2: children victims when I was on the streets to Toledo,
- 4:00Speaker 2: extremely sensitive to their needs if they were a victim
- 4:04Speaker 2: of crime. So it really took me by surprise staff
- 4:07Speaker 2: that suddenly switchbacks completely in twenty thirteen when my son
- 4:12Speaker 2: was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of a sexual assault
- 4:16Speaker 2: in the military, the one of which the evidence clearly
- 4:19Speaker 2: shows he's innocent, and he's been sentenced to thirty years
- 4:24Speaker 2: in prison for eleven with Kansas.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Wow, so did you deal with these kinds of cases? Well,
- 4:35Speaker 1: you know what, tell us a little bit about what
- 4:38Speaker 1: happened with your son.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Okay, Well, he had been in the Air Force for
- 4:43Speaker 2: over ten years. He had deployed six times. He was
- 4:46Speaker 2: a decorated combat veteran. He had also achieved his associates
- 4:51Speaker 2: and his bachelor's degree with honors and criminal justice. He
- 4:55Speaker 2: attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia and
- 4:59Speaker 2: became a Federal agent and became an OSI Special Agent
- 5:03Speaker 2: with the Air Force. So, for your listeners, if they
- 5:06Speaker 2: don't know, OSI is the detectives of the Air Force.
- 5:11Speaker 2: CID is for the Army, and CIS it's for the Navy.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Just so that's what his job was. It requires a
- 5:19Speaker 2: great deal of betting, and they went to hundreds of
- 5:23Speaker 2: people to make sure that he was crying free before
- 5:31Speaker 2: they gave him that position in twenty thirteen. In the
- 5:36Speaker 2: spring of twenty thirteen, his command came to him and
- 5:39Speaker 2: asked him to stop deploying so often. They said they
- 5:43Speaker 2: wanted him to concentrate on criminal work stateside. Now he
- 5:46Speaker 2: had not really done in criminal work state side. He
- 5:49Speaker 2: had excelled in counterintelligence work overseas. But he went to
- 5:55Speaker 2: work on that, always trying to do his best job,
- 5:57Speaker 2: and soon uncovered nine drug dealers, nine airmen dealing drugs
- 6:03Speaker 2: on the base at Fort Herbert Field, Florida, airman dealing
- 6:10Speaker 2: drugs to other airmen. He charged and arrested those and
- 6:14Speaker 2: then very shortly after that, commands shipped him back to Africa.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Deployed him back to Africa. While he was in Africa,
- 6:22Speaker 2: he started conversing with the young lady he met online
- 6:30Speaker 2: through Craigslist. And they're talking back and forth and sharing
- 6:35Speaker 2: instrument details of what they're interested in, and they want
- 6:39Speaker 2: to meet as soon as as he's back in the States,
- 6:44Speaker 2: and she says, so, you really want to see what
- 6:46Speaker 2: I look like?
- 6:47Speaker 1: And she was in the States. He was in Africa deployed,
- 6:52Speaker 1: and I assume at the time he's single and you know, available. Yeah, okay,
- 6:58Speaker 1: so she's so she said, she wants to meet or
- 7:01Speaker 1: he wants to meet up so you can see what
- 7:03Speaker 1: she looks like.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Yeah, so you want to know if I'm a trick
- 7:07Speaker 2: or not. And he said, well, of course, and so
- 7:10Speaker 2: she immediately sent him a new photo of herself. They've
- 7:14Speaker 2: only been talking maybe fifteen minutes.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Whoa.
- 7:19Speaker 2: So this was June when he was deploy He comes
- 7:21Speaker 2: back in August on the ninth of August. By the
- 7:24Speaker 2: tenth they've already met and hooked up. And she became
- 7:30Speaker 2: angry with him because my mother was dying at that point,
- 7:35Speaker 2: and she died on the eleventh of August, and she
- 7:38Speaker 2: was angry with him for having to go back for
- 7:40Speaker 2: my mother's funeral. He said that should have been a
- 7:44Speaker 2: hint to him that there was something wrong.
- 7:46Speaker 1: She said, I have given well, I think the nude
- 7:48Speaker 1: photo fifteen minutes after. I think that's a bit of
- 7:50Speaker 1: a flag too. But I understand why so many men
- 7:54Speaker 1: just kind of let that slide, like, well, I guess,
- 7:56Speaker 1: I guess I'm that charismatic, you know.
- 8:01Speaker 2: Home for the funeral. She was angry that he wasn't
- 8:04Speaker 2: taking their relationship Serious's been talking online now for three weeks,
- 8:10Speaker 2: so she comes home for the funeral. In the twentieth
- 8:14Speaker 2: of August, he returns to Florida and back to work.
- 8:19Speaker 2: They continue to date and sleep together for the next
- 8:21Speaker 2: three or four weeks, and on the fourth of September,
- 8:27Speaker 2: he breaks off his relationship with her. He said that
- 8:29Speaker 2: she was acting really strange. She was sitting outside of
- 8:33Speaker 2: his house at night, watching his place. He just thought
- 8:37Speaker 2: that this was way too much, so he ends the
- 8:39Speaker 2: relationship and she's hysterical and he tells her, I don't
- 8:46Speaker 2: want you to have to drive. If you're that upset,
- 8:48Speaker 2: you can spend the night if you want. I'm going
- 8:50Speaker 2: to bed, feel free to crash on the couch here.
- 8:53Speaker 2: He goes up to bed, gets into bed, and she
- 8:55Speaker 2: comes up later, gets completely naked, gets into bed with him,
- 9:00Speaker 2: puts her shoulder underneath his armpit, and lays her head
- 9:03Speaker 2: on his chest and attempts to initiate sex, but he's
- 9:07Speaker 2: like no, this relationship is over now. In all honesty,
- 9:11Speaker 2: he's got a girl that he's more interested in that
- 9:14Speaker 2: he had just spent the evening with a few nights before.
- 9:17Speaker 2: So that's, you know, a girl that he really, really
- 9:20Speaker 2: deeply cares about. So this young lady we figure was
- 9:25Speaker 2: trying to get DNA at this point, but heaven because
- 9:29Speaker 2: it's over. So he eventually she just thought she wants
- 9:32Speaker 2: to go home, and he walks her to the door
- 9:34Speaker 2: make sure she gets to her car. She left his
- 9:37Speaker 2: place that night and went to a civilian hospital. She
- 9:41Speaker 2: asked to have a rape kit done, and she asked them,
- 9:44Speaker 2: what will you do if I have a rape kid
- 9:48Speaker 2: done here? They said that they would call civilian law
- 9:52Speaker 2: enforcement and they would arrest him. Today, she decides not
- 9:55Speaker 2: to have the rape kit done. She leaves the civilian
- 9:58Speaker 2: hospital and she goes to a military hospital, in which
- 10:02Speaker 2: case she has the entire thing test done with them
- 10:07Speaker 2: and she can make her report either restricted or unrestricted.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Restricted means she's collected all the evidence, but she doesn't
- 10:16Speaker 2: want to go forth with the case. Unrestricted means they're
- 10:19Speaker 2: going to start investigating, so she makes it restricted. But
- 10:23Speaker 2: later on that day, when she didn't show up for work,
- 10:25Speaker 2: and she was in trouble with her command for not
- 10:27Speaker 2: showing up for work. She decides to make it unrestricted.
- 10:32Speaker 2: I was raped, That's the reason I didn't come to work.
- 10:35Speaker 1: So she was. Was she also in the military then
- 10:37Speaker 1: that she had joined.
- 10:39Speaker 2: The military six months before she was studying to be
- 10:43Speaker 2: an air traffic controller. She had joined the military hiding
- 10:47Speaker 2: a felony conviction that she had had prior to joining
- 10:50Speaker 2: the military. At that time, the Air Force was taking
- 10:53Speaker 2: absolutely nobody with any criminal history at all. Air traffic
- 10:57Speaker 2: controllers civilian world, military world cannot have a criminal history
- 11:02Speaker 2: at all. Being that job. She was hiding that, and
- 11:06Speaker 2: she was about to undergo a special security clearance as
- 11:10Speaker 2: she ended as she finished the end of her training
- 11:13Speaker 2: for air traffic controller, and it was going to be
- 11:15Speaker 2: discovered that she had that. So by making this claim,
- 11:19Speaker 2: she protects herself because several women in the military, they
- 11:23Speaker 2: have been in trouble on their on their own trouble
- 11:27Speaker 2: that they got into. If they say that somebody rate
- 11:30Speaker 2: them or they were sexually assaulted, all their trouble goes
- 11:32Speaker 2: away and all heats under the guide. That could have
- 11:36Speaker 2: been the reason she was doing this. It could be
- 11:38Speaker 2: just jealousy that she was seeing he was seeing other people.
- 11:41Speaker 2: I don't know her true motifications, her motives, but she
- 11:45Speaker 2: does have a phony conviction and here's her looking for.
- 11:53Speaker 2: So in the Air Force hid this information from us.
- 11:58Speaker 2: Our defense attorneys asked for criminal back ground checks on
- 12:00Speaker 2: everybody involved in the case, and they they purposely hid
- 12:04Speaker 2: this from us if they found it. They stated later
- 12:09Speaker 2: one day before his post trial clemency requests went in,
- 12:14Speaker 2: which was in twenty fifteen, that they that it was
- 12:17Speaker 2: available to us. It was not. I we only found
- 12:22Speaker 2: out about this filly felony conviction because I hired two
- 12:25Speaker 2: guys from Toledo who were police officers and now run
- 12:29Speaker 2: their own little detective agency, and they found it. That
- 12:33Speaker 2: would have made a great deal of difference during the trial.
- 12:35Speaker 2: She lied to get into the Air Force. She lied
- 12:38Speaker 2: to stay in the Air Force.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Wow, So go on, Okay, So yeah, the.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Say nurse did, didn't the whole test and I and
- 12:52Speaker 2: she found nothing. Okay, she found they found no signs
- 12:57Speaker 2: that any sex at all occurred, claimed an extremely violent rate. Okay,
- 13:03Speaker 2: So I'm going to just tell you what she said.
- 13:05Speaker 2: It's kind of horrified as his mother and as a
- 13:08Speaker 2: police officer, I'm going to say that nobody goes through
- 13:11Speaker 2: this kind of assault without a mark on them, Okay.
- 13:14Speaker 2: She stated that he held her up by her neck,
- 13:17Speaker 2: off her feet until she eyes were bugging out, but
- 13:21Speaker 2: the nurse says no marks to her neck. She says
- 13:24Speaker 2: that he punched her in the mouth until she could
- 13:26Speaker 2: taste blood. The nurse did swabs of her mouth, no
- 13:29Speaker 2: blood found. She stated he threw her on the ground
- 13:33Speaker 2: and they rustled around nose tears to her clothing. She
- 13:36Speaker 2: stated that she had bruises on her thighs and her
- 13:39Speaker 2: legs from a previous incident and from this incident, no
- 13:42Speaker 2: bruises found. And they brought in special Agent Andrea Rondenbergen,
- 13:50Speaker 2: who was the lead agent at that time in his unit. Now,
- 13:54Speaker 2: of course they're not going to let his unit investigate him,
- 13:58Speaker 2: so they bring in people from Quannico. But meantime, the
- 14:01Speaker 2: very first interview, this agent Vannenberger came in. I think
- 14:05Speaker 2: she was a major at the time. She's since been
- 14:07Speaker 2: killed in Afghanistan. But she asked her to move remove
- 14:12Speaker 2: push her uniform back, and she also couldn't see any bruises. Okay,
- 14:17Speaker 2: this is all in the testimony court. Right in the
- 14:20Speaker 2: testimonial court, she states that she was badgingly raped and
- 14:25Speaker 2: orally raped. No semen found no signs of any trauma whatsoever.
- 14:31Speaker 2: They brought in a woods camera and the nurse explains
- 14:34Speaker 2: that that is so that you can see de coccretions
- 14:37Speaker 2: and that kind of thing. You know what. The room darkened,
- 14:41Speaker 2: So they went over her whole body.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Oh yea like to.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Look for any kind of trauma at all. Found nothing.
- 14:49Speaker 2: Then the Quantico, the agents that came from Quantico Virginia
- 14:53Speaker 2: asked for a special subdermal camera to be set because
- 14:58Speaker 2: she claimed that he bit her on her shoulder so
- 15:01Speaker 2: hard that she was screaming and faint. They looked under
- 15:04Speaker 2: the layers of her skin to see No trauma was found,
- 15:08Speaker 2: but they knew the camera was working because they could
- 15:10Speaker 2: see the different layers of her tattoo. Okay, so she
- 15:14Speaker 2: has absolutely no signs that this occurred. Then they took
- 15:22Speaker 2: his phone and they went back through his phone on
- 15:26Speaker 2: all the fifty two days of communications between the two
- 15:28Speaker 2: of them. Obviously, you know what they found. They find
- 15:32Speaker 2: these photos and the very explicit requests for what she
- 15:38Speaker 2: wants him to do to her mm hmm. Thing we
- 15:41Speaker 2: know the phone is destroyed while it's in the hands
- 15:45Speaker 2: of the prosecution. To me, that was the biggest red
- 15:48Speaker 2: flag of the police officer.
- 15:50Speaker 1: So did what did they say? Wait, you said that
- 15:54Speaker 1: this is your son's phone, my son, which they were
- 15:57Speaker 1: taking as evidence and going through it. Just so it
- 16:01Speaker 1: just happened that it was destroyed, like they said, Oh
- 16:04Speaker 1: the phone, it's destroyed.
- 16:07Speaker 2: BlackBerry phone. They took it.
- 16:10Speaker 1: Oh it was government it was a government issue phone.
- 16:13Speaker 2: He was in Africa. But also they took all his phones.
- 16:16Speaker 2: They took his personal phone, the BlackBerry phone, So the
- 16:20Speaker 2: BlackBerry phone has all the communications for this fifty five days.
- 16:24Speaker 2: He was an African and she was here. And then
- 16:29Speaker 2: they put it special agent parodies from Quantico. He puts
- 16:33Speaker 2: it into evidence. Next thing, the agent Vandenberg and finds
- 16:38Speaker 2: it laying on her desk and she's going, why is
- 16:40Speaker 2: this phone on my desk? Where does it belong? And
- 16:44Speaker 2: they said that's Condon's phone. She goes, why is it
- 16:46Speaker 2: just laying out here? That's a broken chain of evidence.
- 16:49Speaker 2: She turns it on and it works. She puts it
- 16:52Speaker 2: in a fair day bag which is to keep it
- 16:54Speaker 2: from being remotely accessed. She puts it in that and
- 16:58Speaker 2: back into evidence when it comes out of evans next time,
- 17:01Speaker 2: it's broken, okay, the.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Projeg like physically broken or it just doesn't turn on
- 17:07Speaker 1: like somebody.
- 17:07Speaker 2: They can't charge it up. They can.
- 17:09Speaker 1: They didn't tell you like how it was broken. Did
- 17:12Speaker 1: you see it?
- 17:12Speaker 2: No? I didn't see it.
- 17:14Speaker 1: No, So they just told you the phone is broken
- 17:16Speaker 1: and sorry.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Right, and so they're looking at they have to try
- 17:21Speaker 2: to get into it with the electronic Are you still there?
- 17:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm here. Can you can you see and hear me?
- 17:28Speaker 2: It's screen, I can't see you anymore, but you can
- 17:33Speaker 2: still see me.
- 17:34Speaker 1: I can still see you. Yeah. So what you're saying,
- 17:36Speaker 1: are you on a computer like a laptop or something. Yeah,
- 17:39Speaker 1: it might have just gone to sleep or something, but yeah,
- 17:42Speaker 1: you might just move things around and then it'll come
- 17:45Speaker 1: back up. I don't know. Maybe all right, if you
- 17:48Speaker 1: can hear me, I can hear you.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Okay, yeah. Anyway, So then so they're gonna do a
- 17:58Speaker 2: chip off.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Now.
- 17:59Speaker 2: They had the FBI offered, NCIS offered. That wasn't good
- 18:03Speaker 2: enough for them. The prosecutor made the decision to hire
- 18:07Speaker 2: Global compu Search to do that chip off. What's ironic
- 18:12Speaker 2: about this is that three months earlier, we hired Global
- 18:16Speaker 2: comput Tech to be our forensic expert in this trial.
- 18:20Speaker 2: They went in and hired the boss of our guy
- 18:24Speaker 2: from that.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Point on nothing, so they hired Okay, so you let
- 18:28Speaker 1: me just let me just get this straight. So you
- 18:31Speaker 1: had hired a service called compu tech. So essentially what.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Global compuse search I believe it's.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Called Global compu Search. And what do they do? What's
- 18:47Speaker 1: a chip off?
- 18:48Speaker 2: They were going to do a chip off of this
- 18:50Speaker 2: BlackBerry phone and there's a chance that they'll be destroyed
- 18:54Speaker 2: and those images will be gone forever, and then there's
- 18:57Speaker 2: a chance that they'll be able to recover them.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and then and then the people that essentially
- 19:04Speaker 1: are on the other side of this, they hired the
- 19:08Speaker 1: same organization, but they hired a guy who's like higher
- 19:12Speaker 1: up on the food chain, the boss of the boss. Right, Okay,
- 19:17Speaker 1: all right, that's it. I just wanted to know what
- 19:19Speaker 1: that that is. You can continue. What what is it?
- 19:22Speaker 1: Is it?
- 19:22Speaker 2: What is a chip I am okay, okay, some kind
- 19:27Speaker 2: of thing only.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Tis Yeah, it's like a deep dive thing. I'm sure
- 19:32Speaker 1: somebody in the chat that's watching knows what a chip
- 19:36Speaker 1: off is. I'm sure that we have some big brained
- 19:38Speaker 1: people in there. But anyway, okay, so what happened next?
- 19:43Speaker 1: So they hired this guy, They hired the same company,
- 19:46Speaker 1: but they hired the boss of the guy that you
- 19:47Speaker 1: had used. Yes.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Yeah, So so during the chip off, the phone is
- 19:52Speaker 2: destroyed and they said, all those messages are lost forever. Well,
- 19:58Speaker 2: you know when I text you and you text me,
- 20:01Speaker 2: my messages are on your phone. Your messages are on
- 20:04Speaker 2: my phone. You know what I mean? We can recover
- 20:06Speaker 2: something that Monica had two phones, okay, and she decided
- 20:12Speaker 2: to give the OSI agents in this case her old phone,
- 20:17Speaker 2: the one that showed five days of them breaking up
- 20:20Speaker 2: and not the fifty five days that they were communicating.
- 20:24Speaker 2: She put her new phone at home, okay, and she
- 20:27Speaker 2: didn't let that come out now. Agent Vandenberger puts right
- 20:31Speaker 2: in her original notes, Monica has two phones, collect both phones.
- 20:37Speaker 2: It's right there in the notes. And our agents from
- 20:40Speaker 2: Quantico just didn't bother. Our attorneys asked for that phone,
- 20:44Speaker 2: and the judge said, I don't think there's anything of
- 20:47Speaker 2: value on it and wouldn't allow them to have it, okay,
- 20:51Speaker 2: So all that evidence was gone. But I think because
- 20:56Speaker 2: they knew that they had a bad victim, okay, and
- 21:00Speaker 2: the air Force, all the military is under the pressure
- 21:04Speaker 2: from Congress at this point, and there's under such pressure
- 21:07Speaker 2: that it is to believe the victim. To believe the victim,
- 21:12Speaker 2: they should say, believe the evidence. Okay, they don't. It's
- 21:15Speaker 2: believe the victims. So if somebody makes an accusation, you're
- 21:18Speaker 2: supposed to believe her no matter what the evidence shows.
- 21:21Speaker 1: Or at least use that as your starting point.
- 21:24Speaker 2: What they do in the military, at least at that point,
- 21:27Speaker 2: that's exactly what they were doing. They were believing the
- 21:30Speaker 2: victim over the evidence. And in this case, I believe
- 21:34Speaker 2: that the investigators knew that she was lying. They knew it.
- 21:40Speaker 2: So in order to make this thing go forward, they
- 21:43Speaker 2: had to start recruiting women to be victims. So the
- 21:47Speaker 2: next woman they went to was his partner Anna. She
- 21:51Speaker 2: had been with him on the arrest of the nine
- 21:56Speaker 2: while he was in Africa. She took two of the
- 21:58Speaker 2: cases to court martials and got convictions. She dates him
- 22:03Speaker 2: sometimes and then she also has a boyfriend in another state,
- 22:06Speaker 2: so she's on again, off again and on a situation.
- 22:12Speaker 2: They see each other in the Red Door Saloon, which
- 22:14Speaker 2: is a bar that he frequents. Off she's there celebrating
- 22:18Speaker 2: with her roommate, who just got a new job. They
- 22:22Speaker 2: flirt back and forth all night long, and she is
- 22:25Speaker 2: supposed to go somewhere else to sleep that night because
- 22:29Speaker 2: they were supposed to be all able to drink it
- 22:31Speaker 2: at will. She makes the decision that she wants to
- 22:34Speaker 2: go home and sleep in her own bed, so her
- 22:37Speaker 2: roommate brook is going to be gone for night. Her roommate, Brooke,
- 22:40Speaker 2: and her fiance Brooks fiance take her back to the
- 22:44Speaker 2: apartment she and Brookes share, and as soon as Brooke
- 22:50Speaker 2: in top leave, she begins calling my son and asking
- 22:54Speaker 2: him to come over. He said, look, Anna, we've both
- 22:58Speaker 2: been drinking. Let's not do this wrong. We already agreed
- 23:03Speaker 2: to go out to dinner together on Sunday night. Why
- 23:05Speaker 2: don't we just wait till then. But Anna knows her
- 23:08Speaker 2: roommate doesn't like my son, and she knows that she
- 23:11Speaker 2: has the place all to herself tonight, and so she
- 23:15Speaker 2: says to him, really, he says, I mean, what would Anna.
- 23:19Speaker 2: He says to her, what would Anna think tomorrow? We
- 23:22Speaker 2: should be happy about this decision, and she said, if
- 23:26Speaker 2: you don't come, I'll call somebody else. So he really
- 23:30Speaker 2: likes this girl, so he goes goes to her apart
- 23:35Speaker 2: my forty five minutes later, knocks at the door. She
- 23:38Speaker 2: opens the door wearing her pajamas and they're together now
- 23:43Speaker 2: around three in the morning. He's having trouble breathing because
- 23:48Speaker 2: he's allergic to her cat, so he wants to go home,
- 23:52Speaker 2: and so he texts her a message, you know that
- 23:55Speaker 2: I'm leaving. I can't breathe, I don't have my clarene
- 23:59Speaker 2: in and will for it's making me, you know, all congested.
- 24:04Speaker 2: He goes, I'll call you tomorrow and we'll go to
- 24:06Speaker 2: dinner on Sunday. She wakes up a short time later,
- 24:10Speaker 2: and she's angry that he left, and she said, wait
- 24:13Speaker 2: to make a girl feel well, you know. And the
- 24:18Speaker 2: prosecution makes it she was passed out drunk as the reason.
- 24:21Speaker 1: He's but he was drunk too, right, I mean they
- 24:25Speaker 1: had both right, He was.
- 24:26Speaker 2: Drinking, she was drinking. Crime is the guy? How come
- 24:30Speaker 2: the girl can't consent after one drink and that's what
- 24:33Speaker 2: the and that's what the standard was at that time.
- 24:35Speaker 2: If a woman had one drink, she could not consent
- 24:38Speaker 2: to sex.
- 24:39Speaker 1: It still is the standard, and it's unique to women
- 24:43Speaker 1: too well. I mean, generally men can handle their liquor
- 24:46Speaker 1: a little bit better, but that doesn't that shouldn't. It's
- 24:50Speaker 1: a biological reality that's nothing to do with the law.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Right, feminist, all right, as a feminist, I'm kind of
- 24:57Speaker 2: offended that you said, consent to sex with my own
- 25:02Speaker 2: body after one drink. This is equivalent to me, as
- 25:05Speaker 2: a police officer if I stop a woman who's drink
- 25:08Speaker 2: drunk driving and she suddenly points to her boyfriend next
- 25:11Speaker 2: to her in the passengers and says, it's his fault.
- 25:14Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
- 25:16Speaker 1: M hmm.
- 25:17Speaker 2: If you can drive with one drink, then you certainly
- 25:20Speaker 2: can consent to romantic liaison after one drink. It's ridiculous.
- 25:25Speaker 2: So anyways, she's angry with them, and she wants him
- 25:31Speaker 2: to bring her the Plan B pill and he says
- 25:34Speaker 2: he'll be happy to do that later in the day,
- 25:36Speaker 2: but she says, not right now, because guess what she did.
- 25:40Speaker 2: She called somebody else. So there's another guy.
- 25:43Speaker 1: There, like another man oh okay in there at this time.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Now, she did that because she wanted to make my
- 25:49Speaker 2: son jealous. She used this guy repeatedly to make my
- 25:52Speaker 2: son jealous. But that's what she did. She did call
- 25:56Speaker 2: somebody else, Okay.
- 25:58Speaker 1: And so this woman on right.
- 26:01Speaker 2: She special agent herself.
- 26:06Speaker 1: She is a what OSI special agent herself. Okay. So
- 26:12Speaker 1: so going back to the case, So you're saying that
- 26:16Speaker 1: the military courts wanted to get more witnesses to sort
- 26:21Speaker 1: of strengthen the case against your son. So they went
- 26:25Speaker 1: to Anna and they tried to like take her experience
- 26:29Speaker 1: that scenario and turn it into something more nefarious because
- 26:33Speaker 1: it strengthens the case that her his original fling was
- 26:38Speaker 1: already you know, the the girl with the tattoos that
- 26:42Speaker 1: claimed that he violently raped her. So they're basically just
- 26:46Speaker 1: building a case and they're using like anything that sounds
- 26:49Speaker 1: like it could pass as a means to deliver this. Right,
- 26:54Speaker 1: this is why we're hearing this other story. Okay.
- 26:57Speaker 2: They start fresh Honor. They found out about some minor,
- 27:03Speaker 2: minor misconduct on Honor's part, and Anna is given immunity
- 27:09Speaker 2: to testify against my son on a sexual assault. So
- 27:14Speaker 2: this consensual relationship they had on the thirtieth of August
- 27:19Speaker 2: becomes now a rape okay, under the pressure, and yeah,
- 27:23Speaker 2: because she's promised immunity on her own minor.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Mistakes that honor gets an offer, right, and they're like,
- 27:32Speaker 1: if you accuse him of rape, right, we're gonna what
- 27:36Speaker 1: look like dismissed her other in that other thing she did.
- 27:39Speaker 1: It's like a tit for tat a little.
- 27:43Speaker 2: With us, then we will quit pro quo. Yeah, Okay, Now, Anna,
- 27:49Speaker 2: she didn't. She's not a dumb girl, and she knew
- 27:52Speaker 2: that a lot of the pressure, a lot of the
- 27:54Speaker 2: way they were treating her was wrong because she had
- 27:57Speaker 2: just finished the advanced course and sexual assa investigation herself.
- 28:02Speaker 2: That was her job, and this unit is to she
- 28:05Speaker 2: was sent for this special training because that was going
- 28:07Speaker 2: to be her job, okay, And so she knows that
- 28:10Speaker 2: the way that they're treating her is not right. And
- 28:13Speaker 2: so later on in the case, and they held my
- 28:17Speaker 2: son in custody three hundred and forty four days before trial,
- 28:20Speaker 2: trying to build a case. Okay, that's a violation of
- 28:24Speaker 2: speaking trial. You only have one hundred and twenty days
- 28:26Speaker 2: to hold some many custody before you bring him the trial.
- 28:29Speaker 2: So Honor wrote a three page letter to the convenient authority.
- 28:33Speaker 2: The convenient authority is the guy who's the charge of
- 28:36Speaker 2: the base. He's the one that decides if cases go
- 28:40Speaker 2: forward or don't go forward. And he's running the base,
- 28:43Speaker 2: and it looks bad for him. You know. If he's
- 28:45Speaker 2: got nine drug dealers, it looks bad for him. If
- 28:48Speaker 2: he lets an OSI agent go because of sexual assault,
- 28:52Speaker 2: it looks bad for him. Okay, and he's up for general.
- 28:56Speaker 2: So Honor wrote a three page letter. I have taken
- 29:01Speaker 2: out some of the parts that she states. Can I
- 29:06Speaker 2: read to you what she says about it? Sure?
- 29:08Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
- 29:11Speaker 2: It's a three page latter, so I tried to pare
- 29:13Speaker 2: it down to just so that you can get the point.
- 29:17Speaker 2: On the third of October twenty thirteen, you signed a
- 29:21Speaker 2: letter granting me testimonials immunity in exchange for my cooperation
- 29:25Speaker 2: with this investigation and testimony at trial. Since that time,
- 29:29Speaker 2: I have been very unhappy with the way this investigation
- 29:32Speaker 2: has been conducted and no longer wished to testify. From
- 29:36Speaker 2: the beginning, this was never an investigation that I wanted
- 29:39Speaker 2: to be a part of. First, I had a personal
- 29:42Speaker 2: relationship with tex Sergeant Condon, and I felt my participation
- 29:46Speaker 2: would be a betrayal to him. Special Agent Parodies took
- 29:50Speaker 2: my phone from my hand, placed it on the desktop,
- 29:53Speaker 2: and began snapping photos of it. I told him multiple
- 29:57Speaker 2: times that this made me uncomfortable. Response was to criticize
- 30:01Speaker 2: my reluctance by implying as an agent, I should know
- 30:05Speaker 2: better that forfeiting my phone's content should be expected. I
- 30:09Speaker 2: decided to let them take the photos they needed because
- 30:12Speaker 2: it would help. Despite Special Agent Parodies's continued offenses, she
- 30:19Speaker 2: was presented with a search and seizure warrant for her phone.
- 30:22Speaker 2: It was made adamantly clear to me on several occasions
- 30:26Speaker 2: that I was obligated to turn in my phone as
- 30:28Speaker 2: part of my immunity agreement, that the immunity required my
- 30:33Speaker 2: full participation. It was implied that if I did not
- 30:36Speaker 2: consent to release my phone, my immunity agreement would be void.
- 30:41Speaker 2: I later learned the search incedure authorization provided for my
- 30:45Speaker 2: phone was not legal. I felt the immunity agreement was
- 30:50Speaker 2: used as a tool to manipulate me into testifying and
- 30:53Speaker 2: has been held over my head at every step. I
- 30:56Speaker 2: do not believe these tactics are ethical, nor do they
- 30:59Speaker 2: uphold the values an integraty within our legal system. I
- 31:03Speaker 2: have tried to tolerate feeling mistreated because I felt I
- 31:06Speaker 2: was doing the right thing. I am not so sure anymore.
- 31:09Speaker 2: The government's actions have left much more significant impact on
- 31:15Speaker 2: my life than anything between tech Sergeant Content and I.
- 31:19Speaker 2: This is something I want to put behind me, not
- 31:23Speaker 2: just because I feel so mistreated by the government, but
- 31:26Speaker 2: because tech Sergeant Content is someone I care about. Okay,
- 31:31Speaker 2: so she's saying she was they're saying she was raped,
- 31:36Speaker 2: but yet the government has left much more of a
- 31:39Speaker 2: significant impact on her life than anything between her my
- 31:43Speaker 2: son and her.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmm. Although I think your son was
- 31:49Speaker 1: probably more impacted by this than she was. So I mean,
- 31:53Speaker 1: it's great that she points out that this has been,
- 31:56Speaker 1: you know, a problem for me, but I think that
- 31:58Speaker 1: it's really been a problem for him so or at least,
- 32:01Speaker 1: we haven't gotten to that point yet. But so what
- 32:05Speaker 1: happened next? So we have they're they're using this, these
- 32:11Speaker 1: I guess incidents to like build a case, and even
- 32:15Speaker 1: some of the people involved, or at least this woman
- 32:18Speaker 1: Anna is not pleased with the way that this is
- 32:21Speaker 1: being used, but they're going forward with it anyway. Correct,
- 32:26Speaker 1: So so what what happened next?
- 32:29Speaker 2: So okay, so now we're going through September. They've taken
- 32:32Speaker 2: his phone and they start going through and speaking to
- 32:36Speaker 2: every single woman in his phone. Okay, So the next
- 32:40Speaker 2: girl that they get to is Jenna. And he had
- 32:43Speaker 2: met Jenna on plenty of fish dot com and they
- 32:46Speaker 2: dated on and off for two years. And the last
- 32:49Speaker 2: time he was with Jenna, she saw him at the bar.
- 32:54Speaker 2: She said, Hey, I moved to a new apartment. Why
- 32:56Speaker 2: don't you follow me home? He was on his motorcycle.
- 32:59Speaker 2: She was in a She asked him to stay. They
- 33:03Speaker 2: of course had sex. She had three roommates in the house.
- 33:06Speaker 2: She never screamed for help. This consensual situation became a
- 33:12Speaker 2: crime when they needed it. The next morning, they got up,
- 33:16Speaker 2: he took her out to breakfast. They went up to
- 33:18Speaker 2: a house where she was dog sitting, fed the dogs.
- 33:21Speaker 2: He came back and by that time it stopped her
- 33:23Speaker 2: and he took his motorcycle home. Okay. When the OSI
- 33:27Speaker 2: agent went to speak to her again, special agent parodies,
- 33:31Speaker 2: she told him, and I'm going to stay right from
- 33:36Speaker 2: the record of trial. Okay, okay, he says, now, you
- 33:46Speaker 2: would agree that it's important to tell the truth when
- 33:48Speaker 2: I'm talking with law enforcement. She says, yes, And you
- 33:52Speaker 2: understand that it's important to the investigation to be honest.
- 33:55Speaker 2: And she says yes. And during this when you spoke
- 33:58Speaker 2: with Agent Parodies, she weren't fact truthful with him, She
- 34:01Speaker 2: said yes. During this interview, agent Parodies asked you about
- 34:06Speaker 2: your sex life with Tech Sergeant Condon. He did, and
- 34:09Speaker 2: you said it was a pretty normal sex life, yes,
- 34:12Speaker 2: And you said he never forced himself on you. I
- 34:15Speaker 2: did say that, yes. And you said that he never
- 34:18Speaker 2: took advantage you in a drunken state, and she said, yes,
- 34:23Speaker 2: you told Agent Parodies that you were one hundred percent
- 34:26Speaker 2: willing every time she says yes. So he convinces her.
- 34:32Speaker 2: After I don't even know why he's still talking to her. Okay,
- 34:35Speaker 2: after she said all that, why is he still talking
- 34:37Speaker 2: to her? But he needs to make a bad case
- 34:40Speaker 2: into a good one, so he has her write her statement.
- 34:44Speaker 2: So she writes a two page type written statement.
- 34:48Speaker 1: It's a bit my heir, Okay.
- 34:50Speaker 2: When you get down to the end of it, she said,
- 34:54Speaker 2: he convinced me to have sex the man. The man.
- 34:59Speaker 2: The man says to her, this doesn't describe a crime,
- 35:04Speaker 2: and he has her crossout and right in what would
- 35:08Speaker 2: make a crime? See how it's a hand written at
- 35:11Speaker 2: the bottom.
- 35:12Speaker 1: Yep, I see it. Yep. So the way that she
- 35:15Speaker 1: wrote it was not useful. So they're like, you got
- 35:19Speaker 1: to rewrite this, okay.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Yeah, And he told her what to say to make
- 35:23Speaker 2: it a crime. Okay, yeah, Only this is continuing bad
- 35:29Speaker 2: behavior on the Air Force's part. They consider this continuing
- 35:33Speaker 2: bad behavior because technically, I'm a happening for Monica, and
- 35:36Speaker 2: Monica happened and then Jenna. So now they're going to
- 35:39Speaker 2: use this to put him in pre trial confinement so
- 35:42Speaker 2: that he can't really help with his case. Okay. So so,
- 35:47Speaker 2: in fact, there's a police report. They had her go
- 35:50Speaker 2: to the Okaloosa County Police Department and in their police report,
- 35:55Speaker 2: it says Agent parodies Often told me that he located
- 35:59Speaker 2: another victim who was sexually battered by Condon, increasing the
- 36:03Speaker 2: number of victims to three. He said that per the UCMJ,
- 36:08Speaker 2: Condon would now be classified a serial rapist and arrested
- 36:13Speaker 2: as such. Agent Peregees said upon contests rust he would
- 36:17Speaker 2: be transported to Charlton. He was transported to Jacksonville Naval Brick, Okay.
- 36:25Speaker 2: And so, of course, as his family were concerned, and
- 36:28Speaker 2: we hired we hire our own personal attorney, a man
- 36:33Speaker 2: named Roper, Eric Roper. He had been a Navy commander.
- 36:40Speaker 2: He was out of the service now and doing criminal
- 36:42Speaker 2: cases in Jacksonville. That's where they moved my son to
- 36:46Speaker 2: five hours from his home, so he can't come in
- 36:48Speaker 2: lawyer as he knows, and so we hired mister Roper.
- 36:52Speaker 2: Then as soon as he came to trial, they moved
- 36:55Speaker 2: him five hours away from their attorney. We paid fifteen
- 36:58Speaker 2: thousand dollars for it, okay, making it impossible for him
- 37:02Speaker 2: to help with this case in anyway, okay. And they
- 37:05Speaker 2: put in a civilian facility named Santa Rose A County
- 37:10Speaker 2: Jail for seventy one seventy two days. Santa Rose a
- 37:13Speaker 2: County Jail has been found to starve prisoners. My son
- 37:17Speaker 2: lost forty pounds during this tene. They had to put
- 37:20Speaker 2: him in solitary confinement because he was in the military,
- 37:23Speaker 2: and they held him there seventy two days. The lieutenant
- 37:26Speaker 2: colonel in charge of the legal office told the attorneys.
- 37:31Speaker 2: Santa Rose a County jail makes it very difficult for
- 37:33Speaker 2: attorneys to they have contact with their prisoners, you know,
- 37:40Speaker 2: and so let me know if there's a problem with that. Okay,
- 37:43Speaker 2: think about that. Okay, you're trying to come up and
- 37:46Speaker 2: plan for trial and they have moved you five hours
- 37:49Speaker 2: away from your attorney to a civilian facility that she
- 37:55Speaker 2: knows makes it difficult for him to have communication with
- 37:59Speaker 2: his lawyer.
- 38:01Speaker 1: Yeah, but this further makes it harder for him to
- 38:04Speaker 1: fight for his innocence. It makes it harder for his
- 38:08Speaker 1: lawyers to fight. Did they bring any more women out
- 38:13Speaker 1: of a out of his black book or they tried? Okay,
- 38:17Speaker 1: they did, Okay.
- 38:18Speaker 2: I just want to say that Jenna had been telling
- 38:21Speaker 2: her friends that she was in love with my son,
- 38:23Speaker 2: that she wanted to marry him, and she was never
- 38:27Speaker 2: a victim, which they could have easily checked her phone.
- 38:31Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Jenna said, I understand during the article thirty two, which
- 38:35Speaker 2: is like the grand jury, and cried and said, you
- 38:38Speaker 2: don't understand how much in love with him I was. Okay, Now,
- 38:43Speaker 2: I don't know about I don't know about all the
- 38:46Speaker 2: other women out there, but I would not be in
- 38:48Speaker 2: love with my rapist, Okay, I would.
- 38:50Speaker 1: Not be well of course not, of course not.
- 38:52Speaker 2: But again like but again, she's using her The Air Force.
- 38:58Speaker 2: I want to say this, The Air Force used these women,
- 39:02Speaker 2: They used honor, and they used Jenna to build a
- 39:05Speaker 2: case that was a bad case to begin with. They
- 39:08Speaker 2: did not care about their feelings, didn't not care about
- 39:11Speaker 2: the trauma that they put them through. They did not
- 39:14Speaker 2: care that they destroyed, honest a career in the Air Force.
- 39:19Speaker 2: They and Jenna everything that Jenna charged. He was found
- 39:23Speaker 2: not guilty, but they put her through the pain of
- 39:25Speaker 2: sitting on the stand and being fired at questions and
- 39:29Speaker 2: being embarrassed when it showed in her phone clearly how
- 39:33Speaker 2: many times she's asking him to come over what she's
- 39:35Speaker 2: offering if he does come over that She said the
- 39:38Speaker 2: day after, this was a fun day anyway. She told
- 39:41Speaker 2: her friend she had made bad decisions the night before.
- 39:44Speaker 2: Her friend said, rob decisions. She said, yes, but it
- 39:47Speaker 2: was a fun night anyway. This is the reason my
- 39:51Speaker 2: son's put into pre troilt confinement for this fun night anyway.
- 39:55Speaker 2: So you see what your guts here. So yeah, I
- 40:00Speaker 2: mean this is the now. So did they try to
- 40:02Speaker 2: bring out other women. They brought in a woman from
- 40:05Speaker 2: Boling Green, Ohio. She did not know his name. She
- 40:09Speaker 2: knew his name was Robert. She called him Robert Auger.
- 40:12Speaker 2: My son's last name is tattooed on his chest. Okay.
- 40:17Speaker 2: She didn't know whether he had tattoos or not. The
- 40:20Speaker 2: judge didn't allow her to be a victim. He didn't
- 40:24Speaker 2: allow it. They they went to his best friend, whose
- 40:29Speaker 2: name is She goes by her male name, which is Joe.
- 40:32Speaker 2: The Air Force came there. She didn't want to speak
- 40:35Speaker 2: with them. They called and said, we want to talk
- 40:36Speaker 2: to you about your friend Robert. I have heard a
- 40:39Speaker 2: letter here. She would They wouldn't tell her about what,
- 40:42Speaker 2: and they wouldn't tell her what. Robert. She said she
- 40:46Speaker 2: had met him and destin Florida through mutual friends, and
- 40:49Speaker 2: they soon became fast friends. Hung out almost daily with
- 40:52Speaker 2: a group of their mutual event friends. She rob shared
- 40:56Speaker 2: many details with me about his life and his thoughts.
- 40:59Speaker 2: We enjoyed talking about many things. He would tell us
- 41:02Speaker 2: about the girls he was seeing and introduce us to them.
- 41:05Speaker 2: He is what I would describe as a calm person,
- 41:08Speaker 2: even a peacemaker. I only saw someone try to pick
- 41:11Speaker 2: a fight with him once in a bar, which is
- 41:14Speaker 2: rare in a tourist town, she said, and he calmly
- 41:16Speaker 2: diffused the situation. The incident ended in a handshake. She
- 41:21Speaker 2: never saw him be inappropriate with anyone. Now this is
- 41:24Speaker 2: also a very long letter, but I'm going to come
- 41:27Speaker 2: to just some of these little things. She found from
- 41:30Speaker 2: the family that he was going to be out of
- 41:32Speaker 2: pocket for a while, and she assumed it was work related,
- 41:36Speaker 2: so she was confused when an air a woman from
- 41:38Speaker 2: the Air Force called the schedule of time to talk
- 41:40Speaker 2: about her friend Robert. She seemed put off that I
- 41:45Speaker 2: asked her to confirm the person she was referencing, since
- 41:49Speaker 2: I have no affiliation with the Air Force, and she
- 41:52Speaker 2: was incredibly unclear as to why she wanted to speak
- 41:55Speaker 2: with me. She declined the meeting. They reached out again
- 41:59Speaker 2: and asked her husband, who was with CID Okay in
- 42:04Speaker 2: the Army. My son and he had the same job,
- 42:07Speaker 2: but in different branches of the service, and asked and
- 42:10Speaker 2: asked the lead investigator to clarify one they wanted to
- 42:13Speaker 2: speak to him. This woman told him that rob had
- 42:16Speaker 2: my phone number on his call list and was quite
- 42:18Speaker 2: simply concerning this matter, and it was wise to speak
- 42:21Speaker 2: with them so as to avoid being subpoena and risk
- 42:25Speaker 2: facing ill treatment in court. Two female investigators came to
- 42:30Speaker 2: my home while I was alone home alone as her
- 42:33Speaker 2: husband had deployed. They asked strange and frivoless questions about
- 42:37Speaker 2: Rob's girlfriend Anna. Later in the interview, things took a
- 42:41Speaker 2: drastic turn. One investigator said, what if I told you
- 42:46Speaker 2: that we have evidence that you're having an affair with Rob?
- 42:50Speaker 2: What would your husband think about that? She says, I
- 42:54Speaker 2: remember being so blindsided and shocked by this question. I
- 42:58Speaker 2: felt my body lean across the table. I looked her
- 43:01Speaker 2: in the eye and said, I would tell you that
- 43:04Speaker 2: you don't have this evidence because I am not having
- 43:07Speaker 2: affair with Rob and I have never skyped with him.
- 43:12Speaker 2: She got up to get her computer to prove this,
- 43:13Speaker 2: and she said, we have skyped conversations between you and
- 43:16Speaker 2: him and a girl named Joe. And you go by Joe,
- 43:20Speaker 2: don't you? And she said, yes, I go by the
- 43:23Speaker 2: name Joe, but I have never skyped with Rob ever
- 43:27Speaker 2: she found She said, I found it so odd that
- 43:29Speaker 2: they would threaten me with false evidence and insult me
- 43:32Speaker 2: in my own home with an accusation of an affair
- 43:35Speaker 2: while my husband was deployed, while also refusing to explain
- 43:38Speaker 2: why it would be a victim and what charges Rob
- 43:42Speaker 2: was actually charged with. She felt very disrespected by the
- 43:47Speaker 2: investigators and also found their week tap to fish for
- 43:50Speaker 2: some type of wrongdoing on my part and Rob's part
- 43:53Speaker 2: to be despicable. She said, I was sad to see
- 43:56Speaker 2: the Air Force investigators treated military spouse or any woman
- 44:00Speaker 2: as a pawn in their investigation. I found the treatment
- 44:03Speaker 2: of the Air Force told me to be unprofessional, dishonest
- 44:06Speaker 2: and inipiladd I also have no doubt that they treated
- 44:11Speaker 2: other women just as poorly and in eple. Okay, that's
- 44:16Speaker 2: his best friend. Then they went to a woman who
- 44:20Speaker 2: shares the same name and spelling with my daughter. They
- 44:25Speaker 2: saw on my son's phone him having a chat I
- 44:29Speaker 2: am nor text messages back and forth with his sister
- 44:34Speaker 2: about what bar she was in college at the time,
- 44:36Speaker 2: what bars they could go to when he came home,
- 44:39Speaker 2: and who and people she wanted him to be. Okay,
- 44:42Speaker 2: they went to Afghanistan and try to make that agent
- 44:45Speaker 2: into a victim. She stated she knew who he was,
- 44:48Speaker 2: she never dated him. There was no relationship like that.
- 44:52Speaker 2: They went to other women that he had been with, Megan,
- 44:56Speaker 2: who was in the Air Force herself. She said it
- 44:59Speaker 2: it was her sex life get out. So they just
- 45:02Speaker 2: continued to do this through. They went all the way
- 45:05Speaker 2: back to high school. They talked to the first girl
- 45:09Speaker 2: he was ever involved with in high school. Okay. He's
- 45:12Speaker 2: been in the military ten years, okay, and and had
- 45:17Speaker 2: perfect service. He'd always been rated the highest rating on
- 45:22Speaker 2: every evaluation. He'd been promoted up to E six. I
- 45:26Speaker 2: think at this point they were constantly listening as promote
- 45:30Speaker 2: before peers, and this this is the attempt that they
- 45:34Speaker 2: were going to. So as soon as they arrested him
- 45:37Speaker 2: and put him in pretraut confinement, the convening authority of
- 45:41Speaker 2: the base went to the judge and demanded that all
- 45:45Speaker 2: nine cases, all nine drug cases, be dismissed, even the
- 45:51Speaker 2: two that Anna had already got convictions on Why. The
- 45:58Speaker 2: judge argued and said, they have nothing to do with
- 46:02Speaker 2: each other. Once a sex crime, one's a drug crime.
- 46:07Speaker 2: But he allowed it.
- 46:08Speaker 1: So the drug crime because I remember you told me
- 46:12Speaker 1: that your son is the one who caught those people.
- 46:16Speaker 1: He's the one. And so after that and that was
- 46:20Speaker 1: sort of like I guess it was ongoing, but there
- 46:23Speaker 1: was you know, or it was looking like it was
- 46:25Speaker 1: going to be a conviction. But while that's going on,
- 46:28Speaker 1: these sexual assault cases come out, right, So it's while
- 46:33Speaker 1: this drug thing is going down, these sexual assault CRIK
- 46:37Speaker 1: cases come and it's like a barrage from all you know,
- 46:41Speaker 1: it's just throwing everything at him. So then I was
- 46:44Speaker 1: just gonna say, Okay, I want to ask questions around that,
- 46:48Speaker 1: but maybe we should get to the end of the story,
- 46:51Speaker 1: like what where is your son now and what's happened?
- 46:55Speaker 2: So my son, he was all right. They went all
- 46:59Speaker 2: the way till May. They were supposed to start trial.
- 47:03Speaker 2: They come to court, and.
- 47:05Speaker 1: That just passed May twenty twenty.
- 47:10Speaker 2: What year, twenty fourteen. He's on October tenth of thirteen.
- 47:16Speaker 2: He's brought to trial the first time. May of fourteen.
- 47:21Speaker 2: They've gone over there one hundred and twenty days. So
- 47:24Speaker 2: the rule is the case is dismissed. The judge allowed
- 47:28Speaker 2: the case to be dismissed, but he also allowed them
- 47:30Speaker 2: to refile. They refiled their charges against him, and they
- 47:34Speaker 2: had four more charges. So the government screws up and
- 47:37Speaker 2: ends up in a more aggressive position against my son.
- 47:40Speaker 2: They set the trial for July. In July, they do
- 47:43Speaker 2: not now allow enough time for the case, and the
- 47:47Speaker 2: judge has to go to Guantanamo for a case against
- 47:50Speaker 2: the terrorists. Okay, so he pushes. They pushed the whole
- 47:54Speaker 2: case of September. Now my son's been in jail right
- 47:59Speaker 2: three forty four days. They find him guilty and they
- 48:03Speaker 2: sentenced him to thirty years in prison. Okay. At that
- 48:07Speaker 2: point in time, a friend of ours had done a check.
- 48:13Speaker 2: He had pulled up the Air Force convictions from twenty
- 48:16Speaker 2: ten to twenty fourteen. July of twenty fourteen, as of
- 48:20Speaker 2: that time, no one had gotten it a charge of
- 48:23Speaker 2: thirty years for a sexual assault, no one. Okay. There
- 48:27Speaker 2: was one man that actually committed a burglary in a
- 48:32Speaker 2: deployed person's house and with a gun and raped that woman.
- 48:37Speaker 2: He got twenty years on a pre trial agreement. Okay.
- 48:42Speaker 2: So and that was a serious that was an actual crime.
- 48:47Speaker 2: With this lack of its okay, they give my son
- 48:50Speaker 2: thirty years? Why? You know at why and an air
- 48:57Speaker 2: Force in the Air Force first of Judge j. Brown said,
- 49:02Speaker 2: you're giving him way too much time. He said, that
- 49:06Speaker 2: while supposedly this was much more significant, there was reasonably
- 49:11Speaker 2: mistake of fact because he had been with these women before.
- 49:14Speaker 2: There was plenty of mitigating circumstances. There was a lot
- 49:19Speaker 2: of unlawful command influence, and he said that the judge's
- 49:24Speaker 2: arguments that the Trial Council's arguments were flawed and not allowed,
- 49:30Speaker 2: and the judge exasperated them by exasperated them by not
- 49:37Speaker 2: correcting them. They they at the time, they kept referring
- 49:42Speaker 2: to his status as an OSI Special Agent. Judge Brown
- 49:45Speaker 2: says he cannot be held to a higher standard or
- 49:48Speaker 2: given more time because he's an OSI Special Agent. But
- 49:53Speaker 2: like I said, nobody else had ever gotten thirty years
- 49:56Speaker 2: since he's been in prison. He saved the law with
- 50:00Speaker 2: Chelsea Manning when she tried to hang herself. He was
- 50:03Speaker 2: working as a nighttime janitor.
- 50:05Speaker 1: Wha, wha, wha wait, wait a minute, he saved Chelsea Manning.
- 50:09Speaker 2: Chelsea Manning's live.
- 50:10Speaker 1: Chelsea Manning, and she tried to hang herself.
- 50:13Speaker 2: Try to hang herself, okay, And was working as the
- 50:15Speaker 2: midnight janitor on the night shift. Everybody's locked down. He
- 50:20Speaker 2: hears the guard yelling to Manning standing outside the cell
- 50:25Speaker 2: he said, it was like a.
- 50:26Speaker 1: Co ed prison then there, or there's a women's wing
- 50:30Speaker 1: and a men's wing, or.
- 50:32Speaker 2: Handing changes, and she was a man when she went in,
- 50:35Speaker 2: and oh, oh.
- 50:36Speaker 1: Yeah, right, okay, anyway, go ahead.
- 50:39Speaker 2: Fans gender. So the guard is yelling for help. My
- 50:45Speaker 2: son said, you need my help, and he said, yes,
- 50:47Speaker 2: come on up. So when he went up, he found
- 50:50Speaker 2: that she was hanging by her bootstraps, her feet were
- 50:52Speaker 2: off the ground, she had a pielcase over her head.
- 50:56Speaker 2: She had already vomited it, she had already urinated. And
- 51:00Speaker 2: he said, oh my god, she's dead. We have to
- 51:03Speaker 2: go help. And the guard said, I cannot go in
- 51:07Speaker 2: until my backup comes. And then my son said, well
- 51:10Speaker 2: I could go in. So he went in and held
- 51:12Speaker 2: her up and he yelled, a guy, please get in
- 51:14Speaker 2: here and get these offers her nack and he is
- 51:17Speaker 2: trying to get the laces off around her neck. And
- 51:20Speaker 2: they come in and they tell him to go back
- 51:22Speaker 2: to a solemn hotdown. Okay, but what would have been
- 51:27Speaker 2: the harm to the United States Army from the transgender
- 51:31Speaker 2: community if she had been successful, which she very well
- 51:35Speaker 2: could have been by that time that the backup got there. Yeah,
- 51:39Speaker 2: the one who saves the life in prison. This has
- 51:42Speaker 2: been noted many times, receives time off their sentence, you
- 51:46Speaker 2: know as the reward, not one day. My son hasn't
- 51:50Speaker 2: received one day off since, and he asked to admit
- 51:55Speaker 2: his guilt. So he and his lawyer wrote admission of
- 51:59Speaker 2: guilt because he wants to come home. He's been there
- 52:01Speaker 2: eleven years in two In July of twenty twenty two,
- 52:08Speaker 2: he was scheduled to take their treatment okay, which is
- 52:13Speaker 2: basically group therapy okay. But in twenty twenty two, when
- 52:18Speaker 2: it was time for him to take the treatment, they
- 52:20Speaker 2: suddenly ripped that treatment away and said union in miitt guilt.
- 52:24Speaker 2: Soon enough, we're moving you back years before you can
- 52:28Speaker 2: get the treatment, okay, otherwise he'd be home. So in
- 52:35Speaker 2: twenty twenty three it was the first time he could
- 52:37Speaker 2: put in for parole. So he asked me to go
- 52:40Speaker 2: to the federal prison system, which I did and got
- 52:45Speaker 2: their treatment, which they is in book form. They send
- 52:48Speaker 2: out these packets so to cover all our spases. He had,
- 52:52Speaker 2: sexual offender, substance abuse, contentious relationship, domestic violence. He took
- 52:59Speaker 2: all all of those. He says, it's like college work.
- 53:01Speaker 2: You read the stuff, you fill out the paperwork, you
- 53:04Speaker 2: send it back in. They give you a certificate, okay,
- 53:07Speaker 2: of completion. You put the certificates of completion in his
- 53:10Speaker 2: parole packet. The best packet. The people who took it
- 53:15Speaker 2: at the level at the prison says, a bad packet
- 53:18Speaker 2: they've ever seen. Five offers a job, five places to live. Okay.
- 53:23Speaker 2: A lot of guys can't get one. They have to
- 53:25Speaker 2: go to halfway house, big time families, sport. Okay. I
- 53:30Speaker 2: in these packets that he has been writing books since
- 53:33Speaker 2: he's been in prison, and a couple are published.
- 53:36Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I have one here. Well, you told me
- 53:40Speaker 1: about the one book, right, I'm going to show it
- 53:44Speaker 1: on the screen for people. The Invisible Casualty. Is that
- 53:48Speaker 1: one of the ones that he wrote. You have it
- 53:51Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, I'm displaying it for people. And I
- 53:54Speaker 1: put a link in the description to the Amazon website.
- 53:58Speaker 1: But you can get it. You can get it at
- 53:59Speaker 1: others Barnes and Noble and nine and.
- 54:02Speaker 2: You get paperback for like twelve ninety and I think
- 54:06Speaker 2: I saw and that describes everything that they did during
- 54:09Speaker 2: the trial to deny him his due process. He was
- 54:14Speaker 2: an OSI special agent. So he is first and somewhat
- 54:18Speaker 2: in that they got Texas and what that was supposed
- 54:20Speaker 2: to be like. So this year again he hasn't had
- 54:25Speaker 2: the treatment. He's like thirty five on the list. He
- 54:28Speaker 2: may not have it for next year. So this year
- 54:31Speaker 2: I hired a psychologist to talk to him by phone.
- 54:34Speaker 2: This cost me over two grand. He's diagnosed, as he says,
- 54:40Speaker 2: there's some crazy sexual stuff. Mostly he has chronic PTSD.
- 54:46Speaker 2: And the he says in his report this, if he
- 54:52Speaker 2: was not suffering from serious PTSD and drinking excessively at
- 54:58Speaker 2: the time of this election crime, this would have never happened.
- 55:03Speaker 2: I say, it never happened in the first place. The
- 55:05Speaker 2: evidence shows it. But the evidence, oh.
- 55:09Speaker 1: Yeah, so it sounds okay. So he has been diagnosed
- 55:14Speaker 1: with this PTSDSD. And what was the other thing.
- 55:19Speaker 2: He said, alcoholism? He thought he was suffering from alcoholism,
- 55:24Speaker 2: said mission, probably in remission because corciands and drank in
- 55:28Speaker 2: eleven years.
- 55:29Speaker 1: Right, But okay, So is this something that he knows
- 55:34Speaker 1: he had, like maybe even before he went to prison,
- 55:38Speaker 1: or is it something that they're telling him he has,
- 55:41Speaker 1: Like they're gaslighting him into believing that he's crazy.
- 55:47Speaker 2: In our family. We knew that he had PTSD. He
- 55:50Speaker 2: came to the outer banks.
- 55:52Speaker 1: He was in Afghanistan. Is that where? Yeah?
- 55:55Speaker 2: Mostly what happened in Iraq is what Iraq. They were
- 56:01Speaker 2: hit buying ied his commander. The guy in charge had
- 56:04Speaker 2: his arm nearly ripped off. My son said, there was
- 56:08Speaker 2: so much blood he thought that he had been hit.
- 56:10Speaker 2: He had to return fire. He had to gather these
- 56:13Speaker 2: two trucks together. One guy. He walked off and called
- 56:17Speaker 2: his mother. He said, under this chaos, he managed to
- 56:21Speaker 2: get buddy care for the guy. He saved his arm.
- 56:24Speaker 2: They got back to the base, netticks were there. The
- 56:28Speaker 2: Army gave him an award, okay, for that combat, for
- 56:32Speaker 2: that situation. The Army, and he's in the Air Force.
- 56:35Speaker 2: The Air Force gave him award for under his investigative
- 56:41Speaker 2: work to find the uncovered and the arrest of seventy
- 56:46Speaker 2: seventy two or seventy eight Taliban fighters. My son was
- 56:50Speaker 2: credited with that his work and uncovering where they were,
- 56:55Speaker 2: where they were, holding up who was involved with who,
- 56:59Speaker 2: and taking seventy eight people off them.
- 57:06Speaker 1: It's okay, So then, all right, so legitimate PTSD for
- 57:11Speaker 1: legitimate reasons and then but despite that, and you know,
- 57:17Speaker 1: I could see people drinking or smoking or doing something
- 57:21Speaker 1: to like help cope. I think that's human. But despite
- 57:25Speaker 1: all that, the military seems to have essentially like made
- 57:31Speaker 1: things way worse, like it was. He already served our country,
- 57:36Speaker 1: he already did all of this, you know, his duty.
- 57:39Speaker 1: And I guess the only thing it seems to me,
- 57:41Speaker 1: And again I don't know where we're at in the story.
- 57:43Speaker 1: I don't know if you're done, but it seems to
- 57:45Speaker 1: me that the one thing he's guilty of is being
- 57:49Speaker 1: attractive to women and indulging in that. Like I mean,
- 57:52Speaker 1: that's what you know, like and and this is well,
- 57:58Speaker 1: I just you know, I warned guys, Yeah, I know
- 58:01Speaker 1: you I warned. I warned guys about about especially getting
- 58:07Speaker 1: involved with you know, with one night stands. It's just
- 58:10Speaker 1: the political and legal climate is just way too dangerous.
- 58:16Speaker 1: It's way too hot. And you know, I've talked with
- 58:19Speaker 1: arvest Owens about college campuses a bit and how bad
- 58:24Speaker 1: things are there for men, and you know, it's kind
- 58:26Speaker 1: of a similar thing where you have, like the college
- 58:29Speaker 1: has its its right tries to handle everything, uh internally,
- 58:33Speaker 1: but the while the consequences can be really bad, like
- 58:37Speaker 1: guys get expelled and you know, things like this. The
- 58:40Speaker 1: military can be even worse because you can just get
- 58:42Speaker 1: thrown in jail. Like they're more harsh in military courts
- 58:48Speaker 1: against uh the accused without strong evidence than civilian courts.
- 58:55Speaker 1: It seems.
- 58:57Speaker 2: Yes, you know, I asked Andy, consider what we call me.
- 59:01Speaker 2: Indian's name is Robert Andrew Kunnon. I asked him to
- 59:05Speaker 2: speak out a counselor or PTSD, way back way back
- 59:10Speaker 2: before this happened, and he said, if I if I
- 59:13Speaker 2: go to counseling mom, then I can't deploy. And if
- 59:16Speaker 2: I'm going to be a soldier and being most effective
- 59:18Speaker 2: for my country, I want to I have to be
- 59:19Speaker 2: able to deploy. So he put his own mother's advice
- 59:25Speaker 2: and his own welfare aside to deploy and to do
- 59:30Speaker 2: the best work he could for the country. And maybe
- 59:34Speaker 2: that that's crazy, but that's how gung ho young he was.
- 59:41Speaker 2: That he felt that to be a truly effective military man,
- 59:45Speaker 2: he had to deploy, and so he put that off
- 59:48Speaker 2: for himself, and look what happened, you know.
- 59:52Speaker 1: So it's all the reality is we need people like that.
- 59:56Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality, we need people like that
- 59:58Speaker 1: and so, but we should take care of those people.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: I mean we should, we should certainly take care of them. So, okay,
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: we've gone for about an hour, but I want to
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: talk a little bit longer, if that's okay with you,
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: definitely okay. So I have a couple of super chats,
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: which are basically like messages that people send in they
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: send a couple bucks and they can make a comment.
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: So I have a couple I want to read out.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: So Albert Nata Retro gave us. I think it says
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: two dollars. I can barely read it, and says, Holly,
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: I'm sorry about what happened, thanks for sharing with us.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: And then he's and this is Canadian dollars. And then
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: he sent another two dollars a Canadian and says this
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: is related to the drug deals somehow he suspects. And
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: I don't know what you if you want to say
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: anything to either of those comments, I okay, all.
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: Right, I have to. I put that out there just
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: because I found it so unusual that they told him
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: not to deploy. And as soon as he as soon
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: as he uncovers this, they're upset and they redeploy them,
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: and that they use that opportunity to dismiss those nine cases.
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: I have no way of proving positively that it was
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: about the drug cases. But you know, whose son, whose nephew,
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: whose grandson might have been one of those?
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: Yeah, one of them who benefits from these convictions.
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: Three of the nine were on this handpicked group of
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: young airmen called the Airman's Council. They're handpicked by higher
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: ups in the Air Force as future leaders, people they
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: consider to be future leaders of the Air Force. Three
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: of those guys were on that Airman's Council. So again,
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: you know somebody's son following in the tradition in the
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: Air Force. I don't know, cannot prove it. I absolutely
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: cannot prove it. It just seems the thirty years when
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: you know a serious one gets twenty. The average our
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: friend went through all one hundred and sixty nine cases
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: when my son has found guilty one hundred and sixty
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: nine cases from twenty ten to July twenty fourteen. The
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: average time given is three point three nine years. The
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: highest one, and that was a serious actual All kinds
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: of DNA proved, all kinds of injury to the woman,
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: husband deployed, broken window, brought a gun. He gets twenty years. Okay,
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: I have to ask why why? Because he's an OSI
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: agent with a flawless career before this happened. You know,
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: I have to ask why, and you have to drug
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: cases have something to do with it.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe, uh, thank you, Albert. And then I
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: got one from Richard Bierre gives us five and says,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: was the defense council in the nine drug cases a
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: military jag officer.
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: By any chance, Okay, repeat it, okay.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: Was the defense council in the nine drug cases. So
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: the drug case, a military jag officer by any chance,
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: acted by.
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: A charge in the military gets a military gets a
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: military lawyer. They can have a lawyer of their own
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: as well. I do know that when we went to
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: see my son and he was in the Santa Rosa
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: County jail, they were also holding two of the drug
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: guys there, so they saw him, you know, and I'm
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: sure there was some Hey, the guy that arrests us
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: had just been arrested, you know, but they charged, they
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: dismissed these cases. One hundred and twenty days before my
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: son was charged with end crime. He was under investigation,
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: but he hadn't even been charged yet, hundred and twenty
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: days before he was charged, and they just they took
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: that position so that it does away with innocent to
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: proven guilty when you dismiss those cases one hundred and
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: twenty days before the guy's even charged. So I don't
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: know exactly who their lawyers were, could very well.
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: Be okay, And I have a couple of questions as well.
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: So first one I want to ask is what are
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: you going to do now? What's the plan right now?
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: Do you guys have something I know that I know
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: that I have it shared that there's a petition that
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: is sort of a more broad thing. It's called would
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: you dooc care that Arvist told me about. I also
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: the freear Warriors dot org. So uh, but that link
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: doesn't appear to be working. I don't know if it's
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: maybe the wrong it says. I get a Wix error
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: message from it. I don't know if it's it's been
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: taken down or what. But but what are your plans?
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: What's the next thing for you guys?
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: What's the next step fighting? This is really great that
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: you're doing this because it lets me get my son's
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: entire story out. I don't usually get a chance to
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: talk this much when we go to the deck. I
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: pad I've spoken twice, and I'm going to read Sarah's
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: letter at the next one, show how the women themselves
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: were being mistreated by the military in their endeavored to
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: try to get these convictions. We just keep fighting. We're
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: hoping that someone will start looking into the case. If
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: you want a conviction integrity unit. One of the ladies
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: on a he's an expert in that kind of thing,
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: says you need to trybunal to actually go through every
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: single case and show it. Will I have the proof.
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: I'd be happy to show anybody the proof that he
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: isn't guilty. He isn't. There's way too much stuff here
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: wrong with this case, you know. Yeah, I mean, and
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: I just touched on things, you know, they did other
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: other crazy things. You know. I basically spoke about each
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: girl and how how that came to be. But when
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: I he asked me to take his car and move
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: it off the base because he said wallet's on the base.
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: Anybody can do anything to it. They can put drugs
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: in there, they could do anything. So we requested his sergeant,
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: could we get his car off the base and the
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: sergeant took us out to this car. He went through
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: the entire car. He said, do you mind, I said,
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: absolutely not. Take go through. We went through the entire car.
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: He took his military equipment out, and he escorted us
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: off the base. That they ran that guy over the
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: coals because he did that. He didn't do anything wrong.
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: The car is not under arrest. I take the car
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: and I put it in an airplane hangar. His friend
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: owned to be stored while he was on this three
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: hundred and forty four days. And they make that a
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: big They make that obstructing justice. My son obstructing justice
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: because he asked me to take care of his vehicle. Now,
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: how is that obstructing? You know?
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: Like I said, And the sergeant, who was an OSI
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: agent himself, went to the whole car, searched it, made
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: sure there was nothing in there that that that they needed.
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: They were convinced there was a phone in there. There
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: never was a phone in there. Mm hmmm Hm. Sack
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: in charge is hoping something will stick exactly.
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: Well, they got him in. They got him in there now,
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: and they might I don't know why they would, but
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: it looks like they're looking for ways to you know,
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: keep him in there. Okay. Another question is did any
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: of the after all that's happened and what are the
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: consequences of what's happened. Have any women other than the
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: ones that you already mentioned, have they come forward to
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: like the first girl right, that was like she did
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: this out of like bitterness or out of whatever. She
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: was pissed off. But did she ever like come around
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: and say, I think I took this too far. I'm
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: going to, like, you know, change my statement. I'm going
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: to fight for him because I think this is like,
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: isn't it Isn't it just amazing that she could be
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: that spiteful.
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: She was put out of the Air Force, probably because
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: they know about the felony and they didn't want her.
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: But she's paid as a sexual assault survivor. She makes
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: money like a pension. She gets paid for a line.
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that they take care of women in
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: the military when that happens, They give them, they give
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: them money.
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: Lost her career because of this. She went back to
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: Las Vegas. She's married and she's a counselor or family counselor.
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: At this point, she scared the death of the government.
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: I sent my investigators to talk to her. She ran away.
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: She said, I'm not talking anyway from the air force
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: of the government. They said, we're not from there or
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: so the govern were from Kinden's family, and she stopped
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: and she talked to them. But she's afraid of the government.
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: She's afraid that they'll come after her, and she's afraid
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: that they'll take the money that they've been paying her
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: all this time.
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: So make her pay it back, right, Yeah, kind of
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: a trap. It's like a devil's bargain.
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: Scared a death of the Government's not scared it of me.
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: She scared to have of the government.
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: What do you one more thing? Do you think this is?
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: So when I spoke to Rvis, and I've been doing
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: this for ten years, Yeah, but I want to ask
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: you if you think that there is not necessarily what
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: specifically happened to your son, but the entire framework that
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: allowed for this to happen, you know, the way that
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: we investigate these crimes, the way that we convict on
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: these crimes, the standard of evidence that we use, the
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: presumptions that we make. Do you think that there's a
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: political aspect to this?
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: Absolutely military there. It's definitely political. Okay, I'm going to
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: say civilians can get it wrong too, But here's the differences.
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: When you're judged by the military, and I don't think
- 1:10:12Speaker 2: they should be in charge of any sexual assault cases.
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: If it happened stateside, okay, then whatever jurisdiction should handle it.
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: That's there because in the military, your jury is not
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: a jury of your peers. In civilian life, you don't
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: know anybody on the jury and they don't know you.
- 1:10:30Speaker 2: In the military, your jury's made up of your superiors.
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: So think about you work for a big company like
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: the Milan in the United States Air Force, and you
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: are now a problem of employee. The CEOs are the
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: ones making the decision on whether you're going to be
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: convicted or not. That's what it is. They're all higher
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: in rank than you are. They don't. They didn't. They
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: had only five or maybe six people on my son's case.
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: Now that's up to twelve. They've changed a lot of things,
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: but there's still that one drink rule is ridiculous. Civilian
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: authorities will look at these situations and realize that there's
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: a reasonable lie. The military doesn't care. Okay, if you're
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: a wife, and you want divorcing your husband and you
- 1:11:15Speaker 2: want to soul custody of the kids. All you have
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: to say is my husband sexually assaulted me. He's going away,
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: the government's going to pay you, and you've got custody. Okay,
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: there's something wrong with that. You've got to fall any conviction.
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: You're going to be put out of the service. If
- 1:11:30Speaker 2: you lie. They might keep you because they don't want
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: the stink, or they might throw you out and pay you.
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: That's kind of a win win for her, isn't it.
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: You know, you devote ten years of your life to
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: the military, deploy six times, get your degrees with honors,
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: are five, truly among the best at every evaluation. You
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: can be sacrificed like you or nothing like you're the
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: lowest of the law. To the people out there who
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: are thinking about joining the military, if your female, it's
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: probably okay. If your male, you won't be believed no
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: matter what. They won't care about the evidence. They won't
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: care if they use you as a number to please Congress. Yeah, Congressman,
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: Congress needs to fix it.
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: Congress made this law.
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: They made the problem. Senator Gilbrandt and a couple other
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: women were so hard on the military. They could hold
- 1:12:32Speaker 2: up their money, they could hold up their promotions, and
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: they did. They held up to promotions in the Air
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: Force that spring. If you don't want your promotion held up,
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: you better make everybody guilty. You at least pursue. If
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: the cases came in before and there wasn't a good
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: enough evidence, the commanders were saying, we're not going forward.
- 1:12:53Speaker 2: That After Congress's pressure on them, they went through forward
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: with anything, no matter what, and they were old to
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: get convictions and they did. They just sacrificed people's lives
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: to do it. They just joyed American families to do it.
- 1:13:09Speaker 2: Our family has really missed him. My father's ninety one
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: and he just did a thing on TikTok. He wants
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: him home before he's dead. It's been very painful. He
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: missed his sister's wedding, he hasn't met his brother in law,
- 1:13:25Speaker 2: he hasn't met his little baby niece. It's just been
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: extremely painful for our family. And I can't believe that
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: this happened to us. Yeah, I really don't want it
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: to happen to anybody else.
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: Well, yeah, no, I mean either, And I hope that
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: you know, we like this live stream that we're doing.
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: It's going to stay up and we're going to make
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: shorts out of it and put those out on our
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: TikTok and stuff and see if people see it. Hopefully, Yeah,
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: we'll raise some awareness. The only thing we can do
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: is get people to know that this kind of stuff
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: is going on. Yeah, it's the second time that Kirsten
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: Gillibrand comes up. That's really interesting. Okay, So I guess,
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: like I got two more messages that I got while
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: you were talking. Albert Nata Retro gave us another ten
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: dollars Canadian Thank you, Albert and says, to Holly's point,
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: my grandfather got into a scrap with a general son
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: during World War two and suddenly he was on a
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: boat to Normandy for a little thing called D Day.
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: Not the same but similar. Thank you for that. Yeah.
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: I guess if you upset people, you could end up
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: in a situation like that. But it's also could be
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: an opportunity. And then ZARANX gave us two dollars and
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: says Kirsten Gillibrand or Gillibrand comes up again. Yeah, I
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: think there's a pattern here, and I do think it's political.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: I think it's you know, there was a when I
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: was talking to Arvis he said something that I knew
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: was true, but I wanted to hear him to say it.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: He said that the military or these figures like Kirsten
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: Gillibrand and these kind of activist judges and activist congress people,
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: they they basically say, Okay, we know that there is
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: a problem with sexual assault in you know, organization X,
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: which could be military, could be collegists. Now we just
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: need to get the convictions and the cases to match
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: the numbers that we are told for sure exist. And
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: it's possible that these are also tools that you can
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: use to destroy people that you find you know they're
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: doing too well, or they could be a problem or whatever.
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: You just say, oh, well, this guy's he's a hit
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: with the ladies. Let's go get some ladies and see
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: how many of them we can get to step forward
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: and point the finger and make an allegation. And you know,
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: it's monstrous. And you know, there's another thing that I
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: think people may not quite get. False allegations can be
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: extremely traumatizing if you are innocent, if you know that
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: you didn't do it, and someone's telling you that you
- 1:16:07Speaker 1: hurt someone. It can be very traumatizing. And I think
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: that we you know, we we over we don't really
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: look at it because it's not like physical harm, and
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: a lot of times it's happening to men, and we
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: just have this idea that men can just take it.
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: But like, I think that it can be really harmful.
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've talked to your son
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: about how he feels about these allegations, but yeah, I mean.
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: I would be dead now. He's extremely strong, but he
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: said he's angry every day because he knows he doesn't
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: belong there. He has taken treatment for PTSD while he's
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: been there, and it did help quite a bit. But
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: no one wants to talk when he's in the room
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: because he was an OSA agent. So even at taking
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: treatment will be difficult because none of the other inmates
- 1:16:58Speaker 2: want to talk when he's there about their crimes. Does
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: that make sense They didn't want to talk. Yeah, So yeah,
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: letting him home and letting me higher treatment is better
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: for everybody, That's what I say, better for everybody. He uh,
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: he's been writing books, he plays sports there, he tries
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: to help the other guys with their problems. A lot
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: of them come to him. He's been assaulted one time
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: because he was an OSI agent, ended up in this shoe,
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: knocked unconscious, didn't even see it coming because he was
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: an OSI agent. And but only once. He's only been
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: to the shoe once because both parties went. You know.
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: Well, the other thing too is that men who have
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: been accused of rape are usually despised by other prisoners,
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: like other inmates, because they see that as such a
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: like monstrous thing. Right, So if they believe that the
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: you know, the thing that he's accused is true, then
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: it puts him in a worse position, especially because it
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: you know, it seems to me that it isn't true.
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: But the guys, you know, the inmates don't know that.
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: They just think, oh, this guy went in jail because
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: he did these things. He's a he's a terrible human being.
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: So I mean that's another, you know, another factor to
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: consider is that, like, if you're falsely accused and you're
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: in jail, you're in a lot of trouble. You got
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: to look over your shoulder.
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: You're the only person that gets thirty years. That's exactly right.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: The presumption is now really horrible.
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: Exactly thirty years too. They're like, this guy is a monster.
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: Now. The most hated people there are the child molesters. Okay,
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: there are a few sexual assaults. There are a lot
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: of war guys that are committed war crimes. They say
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: there is a hierarchy. That absolutely. But this book has
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: gone around the prison and he says all the time
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: when somebody reads it, that come up and they say, oh, man,
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: I'm really sorry you don't belong here, you.
- 1:18:57Speaker 1: Know, so well, yeah, it's a good thing the book exists.
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: You know, I'm sorry you don't belong here.
- 1:19:04Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. All right, well, Holly that it's been
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: a really good conversation. I don't know if there's any
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: like any last words you wanted to say before I
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: end the show, but.
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: Sign the petition hire congressman and say how wrong this is.
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: Guard your sons, grandsons, nephews from joining the military. I
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: guess that's all I have to say.
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you for telling us your story,
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: and thank you guys for joining us on the show.
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: I'm going to be asking you to please check out
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: the links in the description to the book, which is
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: I'm going to put it back on the screen here
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: the Invisible Casualty. I have the Amazon, but you can
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: get it on Barnes and Noble and other places as well,
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: so please check it out. And again, we are doing
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: our We're trying to raise funds for a meetup in Calgary.
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: We haven't met up in like five years, and so
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: it'd be nice to see each other. Just after COVID
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: and everything. We just couldn't get out, but looks like
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: we're going to try this year. So please go to
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: feedabatchel dot com forward slash events to support us. There.
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: I got one more super chat that just came through,
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: so I want to go ahead and read it. Zarex
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: gave us ten dollars and says it's not military, but
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: I think it's correct to bring up Scott F. Spinoza
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: in this case. He was falsely accused by a woman
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: he was helping and his mom took her own life
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: while he was in prison for nineteen months. All right,
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: well thank you for that, zaraenxx. Yeah, very dark story.
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: It's it's really not good stuff and it really sucks
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: that people are using this for some kind of political advantage.
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: But anyway, thank you so much for coming on the
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: show Holly. Thank you guys for joining us. If you
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- 1:21:15Speaker 3: Men's are machines, dude, Okay, they are literal machines.
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: They are talking point machines.
- 1:21:23Speaker 3: They are impossible to fucking deal with, especially if you have,
- 1:21:26Speaker 3: like especially if you have like a couple of dudes
- 1:21:28Speaker 3: who have good memory. On top of that, too, holy shit,
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: you're fucked