{"id":8458,"date":"2010-12-13T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2010-12-13T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:29:12","slug":"former-dod-ig-warns-on-chaplain-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/former-dod-ig-warns-on-chaplain-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DoD IG Warns on Chaplain Vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/formner-defense-ig-blasts-chaplain-vetting\">reportedly written a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein<\/a> (Chair of the Intelligence Committee) highlighting concerns with Chaplain-vetting in the US military.\u00a0 He particularly emphasized the Islamic Society of North America and Louay Safi, whose direct role with the US military has been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/muslim-military-contractor-investigated-banned-from-bases\/\">discussed here before<\/a>.\u00a0 (The investigation of Safi by NCIS was apparently handed to the Army, who dropped it because he was a civilian.)<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this is not the first time this issue has been raised.\u00a0 In fact, the Army&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/fort-hood-recommendations-approved\/\">report on the Fort Hood massacre<\/a> made <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/fort-hood-report-addresses-chaplains-religious-accommodation\/\">similar implications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/2010\/12\/07\/former-defense-ig-blasts-chaplain-vetting\/\">Army Chaplaincy blog<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/12\/01\/exclusive-concerns-military-chaplain-vetting-policy\/\">FoxNews<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz has reportedly written a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein (Chair of the Intelligence Committee) highlighting concerns with Chaplain-vetting in the US military.\u00a0 He particularly emphasized the Islamic Society of North America and Louay Safi, whose direct role with the US military has been discussed here before.\u00a0 (The investigation of Safi by NCIS [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5284,1239,97,208,1238,207,2],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-dianne-feinstein","tag-fort-hood","tag-isna","tag-joseph-schmitz","tag-louay-safi","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458","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=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}