LTC Jason Amerine; whistleblower faces Army investigation

Lieutenant Colonel Jason Amerine, a special forces officer who specializes in hostage negotiations helped Congressmen write an amendment that would address hostage recovery, according to Chris Lamonthe at the Washington Post;

It would require President Obama to appoint a specific existing federal official to oversee hostage tracking and recovery. Hunter credited Amerine with assisting his office in developing the legislation, which has since passed in the House.

“To get something like this done, it takes people within the Department of Defense, within the system, who … actually know what needs to get done,” Hunter said. “Lieutenant Colonel Jason Amerine has worked with my office now for about two years on this amendment, and he is someone that really cares. He’s been working hostage stuff with about every government agency that there is, and he played a big role in getting this to where it’s at now.”

You may have read about LTC Amerine’s exploits in the opening days of the war in Afghanistan in the book “The Only Thing Worth Dying For” by Eric Blehm. Anyway, he’s nearing his retirement, and the Army has launched an investigation into how he helped Congress write their amendment and what information he may have passed to them.

Amerine, who is involved in Defense Department hostage recovery efforts, said in his Facebook commentary that the FBI “formally complained to the Army about me reporting to Congress about their failed efforts” to recover Warren Weinstein, an aid worker who was accidentally killed in a U.S. drone strike near the Pakistani border earlier this year, and Caitlan Coleman, an American who was traveling in Afghanistan while pregnant when she was kidnapped in 2012.

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Amerine declined an interview request, but his comments on Facebook provide a new wrinkle in his case. CNN reported in April that he was under investigation “over a purported unauthorized disclosure” to Hunter, but the officer had not addressed it himself.

The FBI did not respond to several requests for comment for this story.

Because that’s what important. Congress wants to write an amendment and they get their information from experts, not the politicians who want to control their sliver of power in Washington. So let’s threaten the experts’ careers over petty territorial issues. That’s how we got 9-11.

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