Yeah, this lawsuit sounds legit
Courthouse News reports that Frank Ford, supposedly an Iraq War veteran is suing the Army because they drugged him and tortured him because he threatened to blow the whistle on them for all of the illegal activities he witnessed in Iraq. For example he found weapons of mass destruction that had shipping labels from the US. He found $40 million and turned it over to his chain of command, but when he went to get money to pay a confidential informant, they told him the money was gone and he’d have to pay out of his own pocket.
Of course, Ford witnessed torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Gahraib. Hasn’t everyone. Things got ugly when he filed for whistleblower protection;
“On June 21, 2003 plaintiff Ford was, against his will, kidnapped, drugged and strapped to a stretcher. He was then flown out of Iraq to Germany without orders or being listed on the manifest. Ford was accompanied, under guard, by defendant Dr. Madera who was sent for the sole purpose of monitoring plaintiff Ford’s communications. Defendant Madera stated to Ford that ‘you have been kidnapped to shut you up because [defendant] LTC Ryan is terrified of what you have to say,” the complaint states.
Attorney Goodwin says his client has corroboration, in the form of a heavily redacted CID memo dated June 16, 2004, that Madera’s commanding officers forced her to ship Ford off to Germany.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been drugged and shipped out of a country because I couldn’t bear the burden of what I witnessed any longer.
Attorney Jeffries acknowledged that his client faces an uphill battle in taking on the U.S. government, and the Army, especially since his story resurrects the depravity that took place at Abu Ghraib prison a decade ago.
“Everyone in the government is staying mum about it,” Goodwin said. “We’ve since found documents asked for under [the Freedom of Information Act]. They were lost, misfiled by the same CID officer who tried to cover up.”
Ford’s other FOIA requests have gone unanswered. “No response. Four filed, all outstanding,” Goodwin said.
Ford leads a quieter life these days, working for the California Department of Corrections at Folsom State Prison. He’s close to retirement. But Goodwin says that his client is afraid for his life.
No FOIA means the government is hiding something, I’m sure that’s in the law books somewhere and it’s completely legitimate as evidence. I’m actually surprised that he didn’t try to accuse the government of covering up evidence of UFOs and Bigfoot while he was at it.
Category: General Whackos
Sounds like this would make a great movie that was “based on true events”. Do you think the lawyer actually believes any of this?
Speaking of FOIA’s, did his attorney do one on his client to I don’t know… verify this fruit loop was even in the US Army??
Arr, we had a matey like that in the port’o’afghanistan. Silly bastard tried to jump ship and walked along the flightline and into a vessel setting sail for the Americas! Silly little SPC sat on the bird as it was about to fly away while his Captain cried “All hands hoay!” Took em 4 hours to locate the wayward mate.
Silly bugger told everyone he was on a top secret mission for General Petreus. They gave the heave ho to the hornswaggler and stopped him from heaving anchor back to the states. Bilge Sucker went to the local witch doctors for a treat in the long irons.
Sounds like the two tales of these sons of a biscuit eater be the same to me and me hearties! They go all crazy from the scurvy and the endless sun while sitting on deck not manning their stations!
(I blame September 19th…)
So Frank has tried this before…8 years ago: http://sec-global.com/services/ctp/vsg/news/041218.html
More from 2004 timeframe:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/SEALs_say_US_officer's_cover-up_was_reported_by_fake_SEAL
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/9/intel_agent_strapped_to_gurney_and
http://www.salon.com/2004/12/09/coverup_3/
Well I believe him, and if Agent K’s memory-flashy-thing hadn’t malfunctioned we’d never have known the real story!
Avast Mustang. Ye made me guffaw. Tis a prime example of a scallywag.
Sounds legit to me.
Stupid question time… if the Army was going to break multiple federal laws in order to shut this guy up… I mean, seriously commit major crimes (since kidnapping can get you life sentences), wouldn’t they have just put a bullet to him and left him in the desert? “But that’d leave behind too many questions!” More questions than a live man who can scream about what happened to him? Assuming this nutjob is telling the truth, of course. Which I don’t think anyone outside of the tinfoil hat brigade would believe.
As my day at work draws to a close I am sitting here laughing my 4ss off and my subordinates are giving me the WTF eyeballs…
Not only is this dude batsh1t crazy, but Jonn has to have a whole category on his site called “General Whackos” to cover all these sorry sons of b1tches….
And the fact that there is enough of this to create its’ own special category has struck me as oddly amusing today….and it’s always the same sh1t; “I’m a top secret, low drag, high speed stone cold motherf#cker who knows sh1t the rest of you mere mortals who are actually doing the job I pretend to do don’t know…”
There’s what 50,000 combat infantrymen in the whole f@cking army, and 18,000 Marine infantrymen?
What’s the max number of Airborne/Rangers these days? 10% of that force?
With about 2.5 million people serving in every branch of the service that means the Combat MOS troopers represent what less than 3% of all personnel? Meaning the elite troopers are less than .3% And every poser tries to pass himself off as one of them…I am at a loss to comprehend that level of stupid every day…my math skills might be off today as I am fried so my level of stupid could be high as well, it just seems it would make more sense to pretend to be one of the masses and you might go undetected for a lot longer….
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sean Penn, Michael Moore, The Dixie Chicks, and Jerry Sandusky.
Loser.
He just wants to get paid.
His attorney has to be a real scum-sucking clown too boot.
For example he found weapons of mass destruction that had shipping labels from the US.
You can get free two-day shipping for your WMDs with Amazon Prime.
Think maybe the attorney collected a set fee for this one?
Malclave@13, dang that was mighty funny. To be fair though, the same thing happened to me. We were riding a C141 from Pendleton to Qatar, and we had a refuel stop in Ramstein. Saturday night in Ramstein, no off base liberty, so we all hit the Airman’s club. Sunday morning they dragged me on the plane. Didn’t have a Doctor monitoring me, just a bunch of Marines yelling for me to stop with the lame ass jokes.
I’m surprised that Oily Taint isn’t all over this one.
Her, and/or that whackjob attorney from the “Under the Hood” smegma gang.
Argh, mates, but I do believe it’s time to crack a bottle and get to plundering some brain cells.
AW1 Tim: I’m thinkin’ Frankie Ford beat ye to it, matey! (smile)
Shit, if someone had threatened to take me off deployment, strap me to a board, drug me, and fly me to civilization halfway around the world, I’d be sticking my arm out and going, “No balls, bitches!”
@18
Good point
This lad has a great future…
At Duffelblog…
His lawyer must do a lot of work for the media, he doesn’t know what research is.
@10 “There were about 500 SEALS in Viet Nam, and I’ve met all 20,000 of them.”
@13 now that’s just funny I don’t care who you are…
I wonder how many of this guys stories start out with “and one time, at band camp…”
And somewhere, M. Night Shyamalan has just come up with a script for his next movie, “sixth signs in the unbreakable village.”
This tool could drill a two hole at 500m with his short-barrel rifle.
This guy is a real winner.
Considering this story has crept up 8 and 9 years ago, chances are the attorney’s who are getting paid are going along for the ride just to get paid. It would seem to me that a story this great would have already been litigated by now, but you know… attorney’s are expensive, and it’s doubtful he makes enought bank through the California Dept of Corrections to keep any attorney intere$ted.
Hey! I don’t know about UFOs, but, Bigfoot is out there!!! Don’t you watch Monster Quest? You’ll feel funny when he does an interview on CNN, ABC,CBS and NBC. Fox won’t touch it.
PS- I might have been kidnapped too?!? Hard to tell from all of the Soju my hand forced me to drink in Korea!
What a dumbsh!t
@21 I will remember that line and pretend it’s my own…thank you for the first thing in the morning laugh today….
oh God…. please stop…. spewing coffee from orifices I don’t drink from… .
karlen: did you mean “winner” – or “wiener”? (smile)
I have to say, this sounds like rather classic paranoid schizophrenic ideation. I wonder if being “kidnapped,drugged, and taken away on a stretcher” is a reference to involuntary commitment and a dose of a major neuroleptic. Or ifthat would help in any case.
I remember once having a paranoid schizophrenic accuse me of trying to poison her. She ate dinner at a get together at my place, and some of the dishes were chipped. Her reasoning was: The dishes were painted -> paint contains lead -> the dishes were chipped -> I was exposing her to lead -> I was trying to poison her. I called her psychiatrist and we adjusted her meds, and she decided I wasn’t trying to kill her after all, at least for awhile.
What about the extermination of the poor little Mermaids living in our oceans, mudered by the US Navy? I want an answer to that. Perhaps they can ammend their suit to include other mysteries such as: the Philadelphia Experiment; why gay Sailors cause 16 inch turrets to explode; the real cause of Tailhook was not the drinking, but tainted food; exposing the extraterrestrial beings working at high levels in the CIA, NSA, and IRS; mind controll chips that are inserted in the brians of all homeless people (Occupy Wall Street participants); and many other real conspiracies. I want answers too!
@29. Why did you try to poison her?
Ahh, for the good old days when fools like this were locked away for their own safety and the convenience of all the rest of us. Did the legal profession get them all released simply so that they would have a guaranteed income stream?
I actually know this retard. He used to be in my unit in the CA Nat Guard. He was in my team for awhile. He used to be in the Navy and had claimed to have been a SEAL! When I asked him questions, I found he was full of bullshit. He asked to be put in another team and eventually changed BN to get away from those of us who knew he was full of shit. So he ended up with some REMFS who deployed to Iraq in the first wave…he stayed on the camp and never actually went outside the wire. (I ended up with guys in my unit that had been with him)
He is mentally unfit and was a prison guard…(he had lots of stories of shooting cons in the prison)…
If this guy told you what day of the week it was, I’d stop and check to make sure because he lied so much.
He was no where near Abu Grabe and he left before that shit happened. He is a full nut job.
CI Roller Dude: if you have full name and either DOB or SSN for this tool, I’ll request a FOIA on him “for the record”.
Let me know if it’s OK for me to contact you at the e-mail address you use when posting comments and I’ll send you contact info.
@33 ahh yes the old IHLAMHL
(If His Lips Are Moving He’s Lying)
How do guys like this slip through the cracks?
Hondo, sure shoot me an e-mail. This idiot was kicked out of the National Guard for his bullshit. I sent the news links to some of the guys who were with him on OIF 1, but everybody hates his guts.
What about the extermination of the poor little Mermaids living in our oceans, mudered by the US Navy?
Master Chief, you want to talk about a holocaust? Yeah, I’m talking about the Navy’s love for naugahyde, and the near-extinction of the poor little friendly naugas, especially the blue ones.
I mean, there I was on the tender, ordering up some new naughahyde for the Maneuvering chairs. Those poor little guys just looked up at ya with those little puppy-dog eyes, and you couldn’t help but wince a little bit when the tender pukes took them in the back room and you could hear their helpless little yowls of pain as their little brains were bashed in solely for the sake of my comfort.
Oh, I don’t think I’ll ever get over the screaming of the naugahs…
Update after reading some of Ford’s bullshit on the other blog. He was with the 223rd MI BN in Iraq for what later became OIF 1. His unit had nothing to do with Abu Grabe (which happened with a unit from OIF II, that we relieved), so any reference he made about that place is more bullshit he made up.
When he was on my team for a brief time in another CA Nat Guard unit, we went out in the “field” for an FTX. I was surprised for somebody who said that they “worked with the SEALS” that he had no “field craft” skill at all. He didn’t know how to set up a fighting position, and struggled to even open an MRE. We all slept on the ground, but he couldn’t so we let him use the back of a trailer…and he still complained.
I thought he was pretty much full of shit after just one weekend in the field with him.
His MOS in Iraq would not have had him doing any kind of stuff where he left the camp or had any contact with Iraq folks. I’m still waiting to get the full “true” story from those who were in Iraq with him- he didn’t last the entire deployment.
Frankie is at it again. Frank was part of OIF I with the 223MI Bn and this whole fiasco was started when the unit was going to put him up for an award.
I was deployed with the same unit. Frank was going to be put up for an award for saving the life of a machine gunner that was seriously wounded. Given Frank’s amazing ability to spin a tall tale, he was responsible for keeping the gunner alive, stabilizing him, etc. Everybody in the unit thought he was a doctor (because he claimed it) and a Navy Seal (because he wore the trident sewn to his uniform).
Needless to say, when the unit started interviewing witnesses for the writeup, the truth came out. According to the actual medic who treated the gunner: “Ford was not fit to hold an IV bag”.
So then the rest of the lies came about. Not a SEAL (claims he was part of some defunct program in which Navy corpsmen attached to Seal units got the trident), not an MD (he now claims he got an online degree for some Natural Arts medicine). He had a timeshare at some Scottish castle, so he claimed he was royalty (I wish I was making this stuff up).
He then goes to accuse some of my unit members of torturing a detainee. Then he also went to say that he had intelligence sourcing on Saddam’s location, that he “found” WMDs, that he witnessed torture at Abu Ghraib (he left theater before the site was operational) and is dragging everybody through the mud for allegations that have been proven wrong, the amazing ideations of a grandiose mind.
The only truth to the whole story is that indeed, the companies that went to OIF were in fact, attached to the 205th MI BDE, the brigade that brought us Abu G (COL Pappas et al). Just go to the wikipedia article on the scandal and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Cannot wait to see the outcome of this legal expedition LOL.
on a side note, Frank came to light originally with the aid of a David Debatto, who wrote an article for Salon.
David also left theater earlier due to some accident, and became a defacto expert on intelligence matters, a writer of fiction books and a motivational speaker of sorts. Just some other guy trying to make a buck at the expense of others.
They worked hand in hand for a while. I am not sure what their relationship status is as of today.
I said it many times, I wish the military would do better mental screening before hiring folks. As a civilian cop, I was allowed to determine if a citizen needed to go in for a mental evaluation- they could be held for 72 hours (CA 5150). I would say that many folks I ran into in the service should have been taken away and had their marbles counted.