{"id":27252,"date":"2013-12-02T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27252"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:17:54","slug":"usafa-cadets-lied-broke-rules-as-osi-informants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/usafa-cadets-lied-broke-rules-as-osi-informants\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Cadets Lied, Broke Rules as OSI Informants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating article by the <em>Colorado Springs Gazette<\/em> accuses the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of encouraging misconduct while <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/honor-and-deception-a-secretive-air-force-program-recruits-academy-students-to-inform-on-fellow-cadets-and-disavows-them-afterward\/article\/1510262\">using cadets to inform on their peers<\/a> &#8212; and then disavowing them when they were no longer useful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eric Thomas, 24, was a confidential informant&#8230;OSI ordered Thomas to infiltrate academy cliques, wearing recorders, setting up drug buys, tailing suspected rapists and feeding information back to OSI. In pursuit of cases, he was regularly directed by agents to break academy rules&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, he thought OSI would have his back. But when an operation went wrong, he said, his handlers cut communication and disavowed knowledge of his actions, and watched as he was kicked out of the academy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Gazette<\/em> claims to have obtained documents validating the cadets&#8217; claims.<\/p>\n<p>A lengthy article, but interesting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Repeated at the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/secretive-air-force-program-recruits-academy-cadets-to-inform-on-colleagues-and-disavows-them-1.255424\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating article by the Colorado Springs Gazette accuses the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of encouraging misconduct while using cadets to inform on their peers &#8212; and then disavowing them when they were no longer useful. Eric Thomas, 24, was a confidential informant&#8230;OSI ordered Thomas to infiltrate academy cliques, wearing recorders, setting up drug buys, tailing suspected [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4459,4346,2,4458,65],"class_list":["post-27252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-eric-thomas","tag-honor-code","tag-military","tag-osi","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}