Report warning of “insider attacks” ignored by DoD last year

An article from the Associated Press on a report commissioned by the Pentagon last year which warned of the increasing green-on-blue attacks was not on ignored and pooh-poohed by Big Army, the researcher who wrote the report was cached and the report became classified out of the clear blue sky;

Bucking the official NATO narrative, [Dr. Jeffrey Bordin] declared bluntly [more than a year and a half ago]: “The murders of ISAF members committed by Afghan National Security Force personnel do not represent ‘rare and isolated events’ as currently being proclaimed.”

“The findings are not consistent with our assessment” of Afghan forces, then-coalition spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Colette Murphy was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal in June 2011. The study, she added, “was systematically flawed, and suffered from generalizations, narrow sample sets, unprofessional rhetoric, and sensationalism.”

Bordin said that following the publication of his report, he was removed from his position as leader of a Red Team — a research group formed to find solutions to military shortcomings — and shortly afterward, a decision to renew his contract was rescinded and he had to leave Afghanistan.

“I was basically persona non-grata,” he said.

The Wall Street Journal article cited above reports;

“His role is to paint kind of the worst-case scenario so we can respond accordingly,” said Lt. Col. Chad Carroll, director of public affairs for the coalition military command in eastern Afghanistan. “That’s one data point, and we really believe what he saw there is not indicative of something across the entire spectrum.”

In the report, Mr. Bordin characterized the shootings of Americans by Afghan troops as “a severe and rapidly metastasizing malignancy.”

In the five months before the report was circulated in early May, Afghan security forces were responsible for 16% of all hostile coalition deaths in Afghanistan, Mr. Bordin said.

So, Big Army and CentCom, in the face of this damning research, decided for an entire year and a half to continue the failed policies which was leading to the deaths of American troops inside the security of their bases. Remember it was just a scant few weeks ago that they wrote a policy requiring US troops in a war zone to be armed.

Even if the Afghans decided to tamp down the background checks of their police and military six months ago, like they claim (and I don’t believe for a minute), it was still a year after the report was released and then shoved in a drawer somewhere, just because it shed a bad light on ISAF’s efforts in Afghanistan and was counter to NATO’s propaganda. So Big Army could bow to it’s political masters. They should all be fired for failing those 57 troops who have been killed since.

I don’t care how hard he tries, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Martin Dempsey, looks weak now when he makes statements about how “seized” he is with the problem, now. You should have been seized with the problem a year ago.

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