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VOLUME 1, NO. 43 | 20 JANUARY 2012
THIS EDITION
Navy settles with EPA over Silverdale fuel tanks pg. 2
State lottery makes millions of veterans .............pg. 4
Pre-trial begins for USS Cole mastermind ........ pg. 10
Submarine Squadron 17 gets new CO ............... pg. 16
By GREG [email protected]
Wednesday’s snow-canceled regular meet-ing of the Bremerton City Council the coun-cil will merely slow approval of the current plans for the Kitsap 9/11 Memorial.
During a city planning session Tuesday
Bremerton set to approve 9/11 memorial
SEE MEMORIAL | PAGE 9
Dena Scott holds the photo she took of a bald eagle. The Bremerton vet plans to take up a full-time career as a wild-life photographer. JJ SWANSON/STAFF PHOTO
By JJ [email protected]
Dena Scott’s 21-year Naval career did not prepare her for the day she would be standing face-to-face with a bald eagle.
“I touched his perch,” said Scott. “That made him really mad, and he tells you just what he’s thinking in that picture.”
The photo that Scott snapped of the bald eagle named “D.I.”— short for Destruction Island which is where he was found and rescued by the Northwest Raptor Center — was the piece selected by a panel of judges for the Collective Visions Gallery Show in Bremerton running through Jan. 28.
The art show features 137 new and
established artists from the Pacific Northwest chosen from more than 840 entries. The show brings in some big names from around the state, such as painter Anna Hoey and calligra-pher Iskra Johnson. There are $6,000 in cash prizes, including a $1,500 top prize for best in show.
“The show is an excellent way for new artists to make a splash and con-nect with those that have been doing this for decades,” said Tess Sinclair, a member artist of Collective Visions.
For Scott, the event marks the beginning of a new life she never had the time for during her military service. Scott started as a boiler tech-nician, and ended as a senior chief petty officer. She served aboard five different ships — the USS Lincoln, USS Camden, USS Sierra, USS Simon
Lake and USS Canopus. However, the former sailor said, it was only after her Navy career ended that she found her calling as an artist.
“This is what she’s going to be when she grows up,” joked Kristi Van Niel, a friend who first encouraged her to enter her wildlife photography into the show.
Scott explained that wherever her ship sailed, from France to Iraq, she always had her camera by her side to capture images. What she loved then, as she does now, was the sense of adventure and mystery in new land-scapes.
After retiring from the Navy, Scott was at a loss of what to do with her-self. She described the job market as
Navy veteran’s new calling, wildlife photographer
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USS JOHN C. STENNIS, At Sea (NNS) -- John C. Stennis Strike Group entered the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations Jan. 19 after nearly three months sup-porting Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn , as well as maritime security operations and anti-piracy efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet AOO.
While operating in the seas surrounding the Arabian Peninsula, JCSSG played a pivotal role in the drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq and provided aviation support to coalition ground troops in Afghanistan.
After conducting weeks of command and control support operations to coali-tion forces in OND, an E-2C Hawkeye from the “Golden Hawks” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 112 embarked aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) flew the last Navy aviation mission over Iraq Dec. 18.
“Flying the last Navy air
mission in Iraq was a historic achievement for all of us,” said Capt. Dale Horan, com-mander of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 embarked aboard Stennis, the flag ship of the strike group.
“Everyone in this strike group played a part in mak-ing that happen and it’s a part of history we will always share,” Horan said.
In January, after transition-ing from OND to supporting operations in Afghanistan, JCSSG forces thwarted an attempted pirate attack on a Bahamian-flagged cargo vessel, then freed a group of Iranian mariners held captive by the same crew of suspected pirates.
“This was a well-executed display of the mutli-mission capability of the carrier strike group and a testament to the professionalism of our Sailors,” said Stennis’ Command Master Chief Stanley Jewett.
In the 7th Fleet AOO, the strike group plans to conduct
several readiness exercises with partner countries in the region as well as visits to Singapore and the Philippines before preparing to head back to the United States.
“The manner in which we’ve conducted ourselves and executed our mission is indicative of the character of our Sailors and the spirit of our country,” said JCSSG commander, Rear Adm. Craig Faller. “While we have much to accomplish before returning home, and I’m con-fident that we will finish our deployment with the same level of professionalism and personal conduct we’ve dis-played throughout.”
The JCSSG consists of Stennis, the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), aircraft from CVW 9, and guided missile destroyers USS Pinckney (DDG 91), USS Kidd (DDG 100), USS Dewey (DDG 105), and USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) from Destroyer Squadron 21.
Stennis Strike Group enters 7th Fleet AO
By GREG [email protected]
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Navy has reached a settlement for $161,000 after failing to monitor underground fuel tanks for leaks on its Silverdale Property.
“EPA is working hard to restore Puget Sound and fuel leaks near the shoreline could seriously set us back,” said Peter Contreras, man-ager of the Ground Water Unit in EPA’s Seattle office. “Nearby com-munities also rely on groundwater for drinking water, so preventing releases protects both Puget Sound and public health.”
According to the EPA, the Navy has 53 underground tanks ranging in size from 170 to 45,000 gallons. Diesel, gas and used oil are stored there.
Violations occurred between 2006 and 2010 on 37 occasions for failing to provide proper leak detection, failing to provide alarms that precent delivery driv-ers from over filling the tanks.
Since the 2010 EPA inspection of the base, the Navy has corrected the violations. The Navy has
agreed to provide EPA with docu-mentation showing it is in compli-ance with proper monitoring.
Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton spokesmanTom Danaher said that during the March 2010 inspection, monitoring systems were operat-ing at all sites demonstrating that all tanks and piping were operat-ing properly and no fuel or oil was being released to the environment. No leaks were reported, he said.
All equipment deficiencies noted by the EPA had passed previous inspection by Washington State Department of Ecology, Danaher said.
The Navy completed more than $600,000 worth of projects on fueling systems since the EPA inspection the Navy upgraded tank monitoring systems for 15 tanks, installed new leak detection and overfill prevention equipment, upgraded pipeline monitoring for five tanks, installed five new fuel dispensers with remote leak moni-toring, installed improved high level alarms and installed five new mechanical pipeline leak detec-tors, Danaher said.
Navy settles with EPA on Silverdale fuel tanks
WASHINGTON (AFPS) –The U.S. military has continually maintained a strong presence in the Middle East and will continue to do whatever is necessary to maintain peace there, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Wdnesday said.
The Navy’s 5th Fleet and other military forces continue their presence in the area, Panetta said at a Pentagon news con-ference, but their train-ing and preparations have not changed since Iran threatened last month to close the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route.
“We obviously always continue to make prepa-rations to be prepared for any contingency,” the secretary said. “But we are not taking any spe-cial steps, at this point, in order to deal with the situation. Why? Because, frankly, we are fully pre-pared to deal with that situation now.”
Panetta said he contin-ues to hope diplomacy will prevail between the two countries.
“We would hope that any differences that we have … would be peace-fully resolved, and done through international laws and international rules,” he said. “We abide by those interna-tional laws and interna-tional rules; we would hope that Iran would do
the same.”Meanwhile, Panetta
said, communication continues. “We have channels in which we deal with the Iranians,” he added, “and we con-tinue to use those chan-nels”
Pursuing diplomacy always is an option, Panetta said. “But in order for that to work, it takes two,” he added. “We’ve always made clear, in terms of any threats to the region, that we’re always pre-pared respond militarily if we have to.”
Pentagon spokes-man Navy Capt. John Kirby said at a Jan. 11 news conference that the presence of two U.S. carrier groups in the U.S. Central Command
area of operations is just “prudent force posture requirements set by the combatant commander,” and is nothing out of the ordinary. The two car-rier groups in the 5th Fleet region continue the nearly constant U.S. naval deployments to the region since World War II, Kirby noted.
“That presence changes all the time,” he said. “It f luctuates based on needs and require-ments set by the com-batant commander and approved by the Joint
Staff and the secretary of defense.”
Panetta confirmed today that he and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak postponed
upcoming joint mili-tary exercises planned in the area after Barak suggested they needed more planning. The joint exercises have occurred
about a dozen times, Panetta said, and the postponement had noth-ing to do with tensions with Iran.
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Panetta: U.S. presence in Gulf unchanged by Iranian threats
Stennis remains in thick of international diplomacy
The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS Abraham Lincoln and USS John C. Stennis join for a turnover of responsibility in the Arabian Sea. Both ships are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS COLBY K. NEAL
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta answers questions dur-ing a press conference at the Pentagon, Jan. 18, 2012. DOD PHOTO BY PETTY OFFICER 1ST CLASS CHAD J. MCNEELEY
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This week the Washington state Lottery announced that $150,000 had been gifted to the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.
As a matter of principle the “gift”is quite insulting when one considers that the state lottery, and the citizens playing, reaped 95 percent of the rewards from selling 294,000 raffle tickets in the name of our veterans at $10 a pop.
The marketing champaign claimed that veterans win every time someone plays is wildly inaccurate because the gift actually went to the state rather than the veterans.
I noticed the billboard’s and signage a few months ago. The raffle irked me then with the idea that veterans would some-how win, when everyone knows, that in gambling, the house always wins. I left my heavy ire on the shelf and waited to see what came of it. It seemed wrong that the WDVA would sell out its beneficiaries for such a small amount.
This week, we know that the state con-siders a gift of a quarter-dollar per vet-eran a winning situation when the state keeps a cool $1.35 million for operations after paying $1.4 million in prize money
to gamblers that took home prizes of up to $50,000 each.To put the so-called gift into perspective, the $150,000 that went
into “Veterans Innovations Program,” which provides “emergency relief, training and employment assistance” to Post 9/11 veterans – the smallest fraction of the 670,000 veterans who call Washington state home. The $150,000 is less than half of the Kitsap County Veterans’ Assistance Fund’s yearly budget to help local indigent veterans with similar programs. If spread evenly through the statewide veteran community, the $150,000 equals about 22 cents per veteran.
WDVA Director John Lee, a Vietnam War veteran and retired Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army, should be ashamed of himself after groveling the following statement during the press operation to applaud the lottery, “We’re very thankful to have the Lottery as a partner. With their help we can continue to serve the men and women in our state who have served us so bravely.”
Lottery officials say a second installment from the remaining millions is due later in the year after unclaimed prizes and final costs are taken out. I hope the gift grow to an equal three-way split and veterans realize the promise made in their name.
In whose name?
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GREGSKINNER Lindell has never been par-
ticularly shy. It’s all part of the gig being the youngest of three. I know from experience; like Lindell, I have two older broth-ers. If Ford (my firstborn) is like a weed whacker cutting a messy path through the wilder-ness of youth for his younger siblings, Lindell is the one in the back who is unplugging the weed whacker’s electrical cord and laughing about it.
There was a time when Lindell believed that the best way to get attention was to pull down his pants and moon someone. Doing so brought riotous laughter from Ford and Owen and discipline from me and his dad (even nega-tive attention is “good” attention to the baby of the family). I grew more nervous about this behavior the closer we got to Lindell entering preschool.
Sure enough, the night after his first day, Lindell lay in his bed in the room he shares with his big brother, and from the living room, Dustin and I overheard Lindell say, “Owen, it’s not a good choice to show your butt at school.”
Lindell’s old stand-by routine, however (and thankfully), is acting like a dog. He will fetch a ball--with his mouth--and drink water out of a bowl on the f loor if you let him. Sometimes we do.
Our second dinner in the ongoing series “Dinner with the Smileys” fell on Lindell’s fifth birthday. We let him choose the guest,
and he picked his preschool teacher. (The teacher, by the way, apologized for not being “someone important like a Senator,” but when you’re turning 5 and your teacher comes to eat chicken and pasta with you, well, that’s pretty much like having the President over for dinner.) When Lindell’s teacher came
through the door, she asked, “Are you Lindell the boy or Lindell the dog tonight?” Because she had a birthday gift for both. For Lindell the boy, a remote control car. For Lindell the dog, chocolate chip cookies in the shape of a dog bone.
Lindell did not so much “fall asleep” that night as he did “f lame out” from the sugar high and excitement of having his teacher over for dinner. At one point, I remember yelling, “If you don’t get in your bed right now, you’re not eating sugar for the rest of your life.”
Oh, and by the way, Lindell the boy, when he’s not being a dog, has about 452 differ-ent facial expressions. Which makes it all the more difficult to discipline him and not crack a smile.
All of this is to help you understand why it was a very big mistake on my part to not hold Lindell when the boys and I went on stage at church on Christmas Eve to light the Advent candles and read a prayer.
Th e Christmas Eve fi asco...NAVY WISESARAHSMILEY
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BANGOR (NNS) – For the second straight year, the Ohio-class submarines USS Michigan (SSGN 727) and USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) were honored Jan. 1 by Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet as recipi-ents of the 2011 Battle Efficiency Award, or Battle “E.”
Nebraska, a ballistic missile submarine based at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, saw its Blue and Gold crews receive their second consecutive Battle “E” for Submarine Squadron (SUBRON) 17. The Gold crew of Michigan, a guided-missile submarine also based in Bangor, took the honors for Submarine Squadron 19, one year after Michigan’s Blue crew was honored.
“Through adept lead-ership and two-crew teamwork unmatched in the SSBN force, Nebraska excelled in her strategic mission and all addition-al tasking,” said Capt. Paul Skarpness, com-mander of SUBRON 17.
Nebraska returned to Bangor on Dec. 10 after a 45-day strategic deter-rent patrol, the boat’s fourth patrol of the year. In all, Nebraska spent more than 170 days on patrol in 2011.
“I am very proud of both the Blue and Gold crews’ performance
over the past year,” said Cmdr. Jason Wartell, Blue crew commanding officer. “To receive the Squadron 17 Battle ‘E’ for the second consecutive year is a testament to the exceptional leadership of the chiefs and officers, and to the commitment of Nebraska’s Sailors to serve our nation with the highest degree of pride
and professionalism.”Michigan came back
to the Pacific Northwest last summer after more than 14 months deployed to the U.S. Seventh Fleet area of responsibility. The deployment included two operational periods for the Gold crew under the command of Capt. Phil McLaughlin, who turned over the Gold
crew to Capt. Robert James in November.
“Michigan (Gold) excelled in all areas throughout 2011, with an exceptional perfor-mance on their 2011 WestPac deployment and all external inspec-tions,” said Capt. Dennis Carpenter, commander of SUBRON 19. “The crew maintained an
esprit de corps that allowed them to suc-cessfully accomplish challenging tasks and improve their warfight-ing readiness to the highest possible levels.”
The Battle “E” is an award of merit presented to the most proficient submarine crew in each squadron and recognizes sustained superior tech-
nical performance and continual combat readi-ness throughout the year. The awards are presented by the commodore of each squadron to the submarine under their command which has demonstrated the highest level of battle readiness during the evaluation year.
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MILLINGTON, Tenn. (NNS) -- Navy has announced the phase-out of the SEAL Limited Duty Officer desig-nator, officials said Jan. 17.
According to NAVADMIN 017/12 the disestablishment will create efficiencies while increas-ing war fighting capabil-ity through integration of existing officers into the naval special warfare enter-prise.
Under a phasing plan announced in the message, disestablishment will occur in two phases.
During the first phase, current SEAL LDOs may convert to the SEAL unre-stricted line officer des-ignator based on defined criteria. Some SEAL LDOs may continue to serve in the LDO capacity until
retirement if that date fits within billet conversion timelines. Implementation will be managed by the SEAL officer community manager.
In the second phase, beginning in fiscal year 2013, Navy will begin con-verting SEAL LDO billets to SEAL chief warrant offi-cer billets or SEAL unre-stricted line officer billets. Billet conversion will occur through fiscal year 2017.
SEAL LDOs may contact the SEAL officer communi-ty manager and SEAL offi-cer detailer for individual career counseling to ensure the best possible individual decision for career success while integrating their skill sets into the naval special warfare community.
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Michigan and Nebraska repeat ‘Battle E’ win
U.S. Navy SEALs talk to local Afghanis while conducting a sensitive site exploitation mission in the Jaji Mountain in this U.S. Navy file photo. Navy special operations forces are conducting missions in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY PHOTOGRAPHER’S MATE 1ST CLASS TIM TURNER
From 2012 to 2015, the US Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and partners will commemorate the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 and The Star Spangled Banner.
Two hundred years ago, a small coastal nation, experiencing the growing pains of its recent inde-pendence, found itself at war with its former colonial master — the most powerful nation in the world. The United States, independent for less than 30 years, went to war with Great Britain again in 1812 to pre-serve its economy, its way of life and its independence — and the US Navy emerged as the key to victory.
Born of necessity and forged in battle, the US Navy, in its infancy, took on the world’s mightiest f leet and proved to be a force of innova-tion, technology, esprit and expert seamanship. The US Navy kept the sea and America free during the War of 1812 – and continues to do so today.
During this “Second War of Independence,” when Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the “Star Spangled Banner,” the Navy proved that it was essential to our nation’s defense and prosperity by protecting national commerce, enforcing trade laws, and ensuring freedom of the seas.
The Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner honors this legacy and reminds Americans that free-dom of the seas and the free f low of commerce remain as important to our nation today as they were 200 years ago.
BANGOR (NNS) – The asphalt of Thresher Ave. in Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor’s PPV housing area buckled and yielded to leaking, pressurized water from a ruptured 10-inch main on the last day of 2011. The ensur-ing road blockage inter-rupted the daily routine of military service mem-bers and their families in the Navy housing area, stranding them from vehicular access to their homes.
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Northwest reached out to the Seabees of Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 303 Detachment Bangor to provide emergency miti-gation and restore the thoroughfare to service. The Seabees were enjoy-ing holiday liberty when they got the call, but met the task with heavy earth-moving and haul-ing equipment, complet-ing the job Jan. 6.
The rapid-response Seabee team, led by Senior Chief Equipment Operator Edward
McCarter, removed nearly a quarter-mile of damaged asphalt and eroded subgrade.
“Our Seabees came through on a moment’s notice,” said McCarter. “Given the scope of work and lack of time to plan for construction, the crew was able to accomplish the tasking in a very short period of time. They have lived up to our ‘Can Do’ motto.”
Contingency engineer response and horizontal construction are mission areas of the CBMU Det. stationed aboard Naval Base Kitsap.
“It’s a great opportu-nity to serve the com-
munity and the base by doing what we do as Seabees,” said EO2 Gene Chappelle, who worked on the Thresher Ave, project. The response saved the Navy approxi-mately $170,000 in con-tracted mobilization and associated labor costs. Working through the holidays also reduced the road’s closure by several days.
Assistant NBK Public Works Officer Lt. Arce Doble was pleased to see the repairs done so quickly. “The Seabees of 303 were ready to roll at a moment’s notice and really delivered when we needed them.”
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city officials said that every scheduled action on the storm-canceled agenda would likely occur at its Jan. 25 meeting.
Following a city-man-dated redesign, the com-mittee presented a scale down option, about 75 percent smaller in scope than the multiple-acre $2 million memorial to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.
Bremerton Parks and Recreation Director Wyn Birkenthal recommended the city approve the new version during a recent work session.
Local architect, Central Kitsap Fire Commissioner, and member of the Kitsap 9/11 Memorial Project Committee, Dave Fergus, said the design forwarded to council would likely cost $360,000 to build.
Plans do not yet include the funding for the memo-rial’s upkeep and main-tenance, which the city asked for.
The memorial’s bank account now holds about $80,000 and fundrais-ing events are planned through the spring.
Fergus said the commit-tee retains hope to have the memorial built by the 11th anniversary, next September.
Rushed plans to com-plete the memorial for the 10th anniversary fell short after last spring’s required redesign. The committee instead held a ceremo-nial groundbreaking that turned into a patriotic fundraiser.
Shortly before the 10th anniversary, the com-mittee’s treasurer quit citing problems with the handling of money. The
director of operations also resigned for similar rea-sons.
Birkenthal said the rede-sign was “well received” by the community and lead-ers in a final public com-ment period that ended Wednesday. Many said it would be a good addition to Evergreen Rotary Park, he said.
Another snag remains for the committee to hur-
dle before seeing its goal achieved at all.
According to Birkenthal, the chosen location for the memorial on the so-called Cheveron prop-erty requires an estimated $300,000 worth of site preparation and the city is responsible to pay for it.
Though both the city and the memorial com-mittee sold saying that no city money would be spent
to erect whatever memo-rial design passed final approval, Birkenthal said the city has always known that site needed the work. We’ve known since 2005, he said.
Recently passed, the city’s cash-strapped 2012 budget does not include the money for the park improvements and is expected by many at city hall to be adjusted down-
ward before summer.Birkenthal said the lack
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summer and mud in the winter, he said.
If the city is unable to prepare the site, the com-mittee would likely have no other choice but to wait, Fergus said.
“It’s not our intent to build the memorial and surround [it] with dirt.”
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WASHINGTON (AFPS) – Family members who lost loved ones during the USS Cole attack and two survi-vors Thursday urged that justice be served in the quest to ensure a fair trial for the accused mastermind of the attack.
The family members and survivors appeared grim-faced, and some choked with emotion as they spoke to reporters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following the second day of a pretrial hearing for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Nashiri is charged with several crimes, includ-ing a role in the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the Cole as it was refueling in Aden Harbor, Yemen. Suicide bombers deto-nated an explosives-laden boat directly against the ship’s port side, killing 17 sailors and wounding 37 others.
Among the survivors was James Parlier, the ship’s command master chief petty officer, who worked directly for the Cole’s captain and trav-eled to Guantanamo Bay to watch the pretrial pro-ceedings.
Parlier admitted yesterday that seeing Nashiri during his first visit to Guantanamo Bay since Joint Task Force Guantanamo was stood up “brings up a lot of raw emotion.”
“This is a long process, and it has been tough for all of us,” he said, noting that the attack affected not only the sailors killed
and their families, but also their shipmates, who continue to suffer from physical injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder.
“Every person on that ship lost something,” agreed Ronald Francis, a retired sailor whose 19-year-old daughter, Seaman Lakeina Francis, died aboard the Cole. “Everyone is now affected by the outcome of the USS Cole bombing.”
Olivia Rux said her life hasn’t been the same since her husband, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin Rux, an electronic war-fare specialist, “was mur-dered” during the attack. She shared with reporters the emptiness she feels and her personal struggle as one of the family members left behind “to figure out where I belong in this society that has been overlooked.”
Rux dismissed defense arguments during the pre-trial hearing that the military commission process is being rushed, denying Nashiri the opportunity to receive a fair trial.
She recalled the pain-ful wait for news after the attack, not yet knowing if loved ones and shipmates were alive or dead, and the agony of having to bury their loved ones. “Where is the justice in that?” she asked.
Francis questioned, after hearing members of the defense team chal-lenge the fairness of the military commission system, who’s thinking about those whose lives were cut short, or were left behind. “When the defense talks about jus-tice, where is the justice [for the] sailors aboard that ship?” he said.
He said he wanted to “see the process and jus-
tice done – not only for my daughter, but for all the shipmates that were on that ship.”
Eleven years after the attack, Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Abney, who was sitting in the ship’s mess when the explosion occurred, said he traveled to Guantanamo Bay to seek closure. “I am here to witness justice and to see this process to take place,” he said.
He disputed the defense team’s arguments that military commis-sions aren’t legitimate court proceedings and
insisted that alleged ter-rorists don’t deserve the right to be tried in the United States.
Abney also scoffed at the notion that Nashiri, as a defendant, is likely to have access to national secrets that even he isn’t entitled to because he has no need to know. “It doesn’t feel fair,” he said, “but that’s the process and the rules.”
He commended the efforts those conducting the commission are mak-ing to ensure that Nashiri receives a fair trial. “They are doing their job to be
as fair and honest as pos-sible, and we need to let the process go as it was set up at this place, in this time,” he said.
Parlier agreed that the legal process has been “more than fair, I believe, with Nashiri.” But he made no secret of what he hopes the outcome will be.
“I pray to God that we do prove that he worked with [deceased al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden and his cell, creating the nightmare for us that he did,” Parlier said. “And I pray that one day, as an
older man, that I see him receive the justice that he deserves.”
Jesse Neito, whose son, Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Neito, was killed in the attack, lamented that justice has been “slow, very slow.” He expressed hope that he “will be able to see and be alive when the outcome resolves itself.”
Rux was more direct. “I have nothing but time to wait until that detainee draws his last breath,” she said.
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Former crew members of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole embrace before the beginning of the tenth anniversary remembrance ceremony of the terrorist attack on Cole in Cotober 2010. The Norfolk-based ship was damaged by a sui-cide bombing while refueling in the Port of Aden in Yemen, killing 17 and wounding 39 Sailors. Cole returned to the fleet in 2002 and has deployed four times since the attack. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY LT. MICHAEL QUISAO
FORT MEADE, Md., (AFPS) – The command-er of the U.S. detention facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, defended the new pol-icy that allows govern-ment officials to monitor prisoners’ mail during the opening day of pre-trial proceedings for the alleged mastermind in the USS Cole bombing.
Navy Rear Adm. David Woods, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, testi-fied today in response to a motion by the defense at the military commission hearing for Abd al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed al Nashiri. Army Col. James Pohl ruled during pro-ceedings at Guantanamo Bay that Woods should explain the policy he instituted last month.
Woods, one of the highest-level officials to testify in a military tribu-nal, said the new policy balances his responsibili-ties to facilitate attorney-client communication while also ensuring secu-rity, safety, force protec-tion and good order at the facility.
Woods told Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen C. Reyes of the defense team the new policy allows members of a team that reviews detainee privileges to conduct a “plain-view review” of written communications not marked as protected attorney-client informa-tion. The review, he said, is designed to ensure this correspondence does not include physical or “information contra-band” such as maps of the detention facility.
Woods disputed the defense position that the policy violates client-attorney privilege, or that reviewers must read the material in full to make a determination. He also denied that the policy restricts access between detainees and their law-yers.
One of its benefits, he said, is authorizing guards to search the plastic bins reserved for legal paperwork and cor-respondence in detainee
living spaces. Guards reportedly have found contraband stowed in these “legal bins” in the past.
Woods acknowledged that the policy depends on the professionalism of the privileged review team, as well as their con-tractual commitments, to ensure their review is conducted properly and ethically. He noted that reviewers, all civilian contractors, must sign a non-disclosure agreement that bars them from shar-ing this information, par-ticularly with prosecuting attorneys associated with the case.
The prosecution called the defense’s request for Woods to appear before the court irrelevant to the case because Nashiri hasn’t been subject to mail searches.
However, officials said Pohl’s decision to call him likely was made because what happens in the Nashiri case – the first to go through a revised military commis-sion system -- is likely to set the precedent for tri-als to follow. Army Col. John Head, deputy chief of staff for the convening authority, told report-ers the defense’s request likely is intended to insti-tute an across-the-board process that ensures all detainees receive equal treatment.
Pohl is expected to render a decision tomor-row, the second of two days of a pretrial hearing to consider 10 motions in the case.
Nashiri, 47, is charged with “perfidy,” or treach-ery; murder in viola-tion of the law of war; attempted murder in vio-lation of the law of war; terrorism; conspiracy; intentionally causing seri-ous bodily injury; attack-ing civilians; attacking civilian objects; and haz-arding a vessel.
The charges arise out of an attempted attack on the USS The Sullivans in January 2000 and an attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, dur-ing which 17 U.S. sailors were killed and 37 more
wounded. Nashiri also is accused of involvement in an attack on the MV Limburg, a French civil-ian oil tanker, in October 2002 in which one crew-member was killed and about 90,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Aden. If convicted, Nashiri could be sen-tenced to death.
Nashiri did not enter a plea during his arraign-ment at Guantanamo Bay in November.
Although the defendant was in the room dur-ing today’s proceedings – albeit it out of camera view for remote viewers for most of the hearing – all the activity revolved around the prosecution and defense teams.
Pohl rejected two defense motions: one to allow Nashiri to be unre-strained during his meet-ings with his legal coun-sel, and one to establish an enclave – a protected network within the larger Defense Department computer network – in an effort to keep DOD from monitoring the defense counsel’s computers and electronic communica-tions.
Pohl dismissed civilian defense counsel Richard Kammen’s argument that defense counsel should be able to meet with unrestrained detainees in locked-room meetings, as representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross are able to.
The current policy requires detainees to be shackled and in an unlocked room during meetings with their attor-neys, enabling guards to enter the room and for
attorneys to exit quickly in the event of a distur-bance, the prosecution noted.
Anthony W. Mattivi, a member of the prosecu-tion team representing the Justice Department, expressed concern that changing the current pol-icy could put the guards at increased risk and said Woods should be the one to make any changes to the policy, not the court. “That’s not his call,” Mattivi said of Kammen. “It’s the commander’s.”
Pohl agreed, ruling to keep the current policy intact.
The judge, however, left the door open for a possible request by the defense for an enclave or other security remedy for its electronic communica-tions in the future, while acknowledging that even material in enclaves is subject to monitoring.
Kammen compared the encryption system the defense now uses to pro-tect sensitive materials to putting them in a locked drawer in an office, then handing the government the key to the drawer and leaving the office door open. “It’s the appearance of confidentiality without the substance,” he told the court.
Lockhart argued that an enclave isn’t neces-sary because encryption already ensures the maxi-mum security possible for the documents. Pentagon computer security expert Adam Bennett, whom she called to the stand, said it’s virtually impossible for government officials to access encrypted infor-mation or open docu-ments – including those
used by the defense team – without the password and encryption software needed to access it.
Both the defense and prosecution, as well as the judge, recognized that all material on DOD net-works is subject to rou-tine, noncontent-related screening to prevent viruses and cyber attacks.
In other motions con-sidered today, Pohl grant-ed a motion support-ing more public access to court proceedings. Currently the proceed-ings are broadcast from the court at Guantanamo Bay via closed circuit to just three locations in the United States. Two of those sites are here at Fort Meade in a theater and training-room facility. Another, at Norfolk Naval Base, Va., is reserved for families of USS Cole vic-tims as well as crewmem-bers aboard the vessel during the attack.
Pohl also moved that unofficial transcripts of the proceedings, posted online while the official transcript remains clas-sified, may be referred to by both legal teams dur-ing the trial.
Speaking to report-ers after the hearing, Kammen said the defense considered today “on balance, a very success-ful day,” while acknowl-edging that some of the motions made could ultimately delay the trial, possibly as far out as 2015.
Kammen called mili-tary commissions “at best, a second-class sys-tem of justice” and said they are designed to be secretive and provide expedient justice at the
expense of transpar-ency and fairness. He added that the defense team today fought for things it wouldn’t have had to in federal court, and accused the govern-ment of blurring the line between classified and embarrassing informa-tion.
Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, disputed Kammen’s charges, not-ing that the prosecution team in the commis-sions operates much like prosecutors in federal courts. They play no part in handling defendant’s correspondence or defense attorney’s emails, don’t communicate with facility personnel about contacts with an accused legal materials and aren’t privy to those materials, he said.
Martins said proceed-ings like today’s are designed to ensure legal issues are resolved in a way “consistent with the fair, transparent and accountable administra-tion of justice under the rule of law.”
Despite the manpower and expense associated with the commission proceedings, Martins said the United States has a responsibility to fol-low them through. “Not only must we continue to pursue the truth for the surviving family mem-bers of victims who have been rendered silent, but we must also pursue it because that is what jus-tice requires,” he said. “A civilized and open society facing very real and mod-ern security threats can demand no less.”
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FORT MEADE, Md., (AFPS) – A prosecutor in the trial of the alleged mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing divulged today the root of a new order that allows officials to monitor prisoners’ legal mail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: a copy of an extremist magazine found at the detention facility.
Navy Cmdr. Andrea Lockhart, a member of the prosecution team in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, told the court a copy of Inspire maga-zine “got in” to the facil-ity, although she did not specify exactly where. The English-language magazine is published by the al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula orga-nization, and it includes
articles designed to inspire extremists and teach them how to carry out violent acts.
Discovery of the magazine – considered contraband – sparked Navy Rear Adm. David B. Woods, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, to institute a new policy last month that allows government officials to monitor pris-oner’s legal mail.
Lockhart told the court today the discov-ery of Inspire magazine demonstrated that previ-ous rules that covered incoming mail at the detention center weren’t sufficient.
During testimony yesterday, Woods told Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen C. Reyes of the defense
team the new policy allows members of a privilege review team to conduct a “plain-view review” of written com-munications not marked as protected attorney-client information. This review, Woods testified, is designed to ensure this correspondence does not include physical or infor-mation contraband, such as maps of the detention facility.
Woods told the court yesterday the new policy balances his responsibili-ties to facilitate attorney-client communication while also ensuring secu-rity, safety, force protec-tion and good order at the facility. However, the new order has become a major sticking point in Nashiri’s pretrial hear-
ing, even though both the defense and prosecu-tion teams acknowledge his mail has never been searched under the new policy.
The issue has domi-nated discussion during both days of the pre-trial hearing that began yesterday to address 10 motions filed by the defense and prosecution teams.
Nashiri’s defense team continued its argu-ment today that the new policy compromises the attorney-client privi-lege because it allows a special review team to examine detainees’ legal correspondence. The prosecution proposed that the review team operate as an indepen-dent body, “walled off” from the prosecution, and that defense attor-neys be able to observe any reviews of their cli-ent’s legal documents.
The defense conceded that prison officials need to be able to inspect for contraband, but insisted that this should not extend to reading legal mail.
After extensive dis-cussion over the past two days by both teams, Army Col. James Pohl, the judge, deferred a decision on the issue today. He did, how-ever, offer the defense assurance that a new order will come, prob-ably within “a couple of weeks.”
Pohl gave the defense team seven days to come up with a complete order it believes meets its requirements. He also directed the prosecution to come up with a clear definition of what “plain view” means, and said the team will have seven days to comment on the defense’s proposed order.
Considering another motion, Pohl responded to a defense concern that classified information used by the defense – and summarized with the goal of creating an unclassified document that also omits sensitive material such as sources and collection methods – risks leaving out key information the defense team needs.
Richard Kammen,
the lead civilian defense counsel, argued that Pohl’s determinations otherwise will be made in a vacuum without consideration for the defense.
Pohl ruled that the defense has until a hear-ing to be scheduled in April to tell him exactly what kind of material it needs to build its case. That way, he will be able to take that information into consideration when comparing the prosecu-tion’s summary to the source material.
The judge will then share any changes he makes to the summary with the prosecution team before approving it. At that point, the document becomes final, not able to be reconsid-ered except in the event of an appeal, officials explained.
During a post-hear-ing news conference, Kammen accused the prosecution of trying to get Pohl to make a quick, irrevocable deci-sion that will impact the defense’s case, but with
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Capt. John Tolliver relieved Capt. Paul Skarpness.
“I am deeply honored to have had the opportunity to serve with such an excep-tional team of submarine warriors,” said Skarpness, who had served as com-mander of Submarine Squadron 17 since April 2010. “Your daily contri-butions to our national security are remarkable, unmistakable, and essential. Thank you for making this one of the most rewarding tours of my career.”
As the squadron’s com-mander, Skarpness oversaw more than 30 strategic deterrent patrols and numerous refits. In addi-tion, two ballistic missile submarines underwent engi-neered refueling overhauls - USS Nevada returned to service last summer and USS Pennsylvania is sched-uled to rejoin Submarine Squadron 17 later in 2012.
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no meaningful input from the defense. He commended Pohl for delaying action until April, although indicat-ing that it’s still too little time for the defense team to adequately review the mountains of information involved and request needed resources.
“Three months in the context of the demands of this case is a blink of an eye,” he said.
Kammen again con-demned the military commission process, saying it was designed “solely to provide the façade of justice, but not real justice.” He said it is “completely outside the pale of what American justice has stood for for 200 years.”
Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, chief pros-ecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, underscored the impor-tance of protecting classified information as well as sensitive infor-mation when it is in the public interest during this and other trials.
He emphasized that military commissions – like all criminal trials in
the U.S. federal system of criminal justice – must subscribe to rules that balance the accused’s right to a fair trial and the need to protect national security and other public interests.
Although Nashiri was in the courtroom dur-ing today’s proceedings, all the activity revolved around the prosecution and defense teams.
Nashiri, 47, is charged with “perfidy,” or treachery; murder in violation of the law of war; attempted murder in violation of the law of war; terrorism; con-spiracy; intentionally causing serious bodily injury; attacking civil-ians; attacking civilian objects; and hazarding a vessel.
The charges arise out of an attempted attack on the USS The Sullivans in January 2000 and an attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, dur-ing which 17 U.S. sailors were killed and 37 more wounded. Nashiri also is accused of involve-ment in an attack on the MV Limburg, a French civilian oil tanker, in October 2002, in which one crew member was killed and about 90,000
barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Aden. If con-victed, Nashiri could be sentenced to death.
Nashiri did not enter a plea during his arraign-
ment at Guantanamo Bay in November.
The Guantanamo Bay proceedings are being broadcast via closed cir-cuit television to three
sites in the United States. Two of those sites are at Fort Meade, in a theater and training-room facil-ity. Another, at Norfolk Naval Base, Va., is
reserved for families of USS Cole victims as well as crew members aboard the vessel during the attack.
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Former crew members of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole embrace before the beginning of the tenth anniversary remembrance ceremony of the terrorist attack on Cole in Cotober 2010. The Norfolk-based ship was damaged by a sui-cide bombing while refueling in the Port of Aden in Yemen, killing 17 and wounding 39 Sailors. Cole returned to the fleet in 2002 and has deployed four times since the attack. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY LT. MICHAEL QUISAO
Submarine Squadron 17 gets new commander
Outgoing commander of Submarine Squadron 17 Capt. Paul Skarpness, congratulates the Blue and Gold crews of the ballistic-missile submarine USS Nebraska for winning the 2011 Battle Efficiency Award, or Battle “E”, during a ceremony at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor last week. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY LT. ED EARLY