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Presidential Special
Oversight Board
Meeting
in Washington DC
- July
13th, 1999
As with pretty much all Gulf War Government hearings,
- the agencies
get to speak first in the morning to get the
- media. We hear OSAGWI, and the CIA out right lie about
- what has happened - as well as how much they have
- omitted. They are allowed to talk as long as they want,
- to linger, and to even make accusations.
Then the veterans
get up to the microphone, only to hear
- Sen. Warren Rudman very harshly say "YOU ONLY HAVE
- 5 MINUTES".
The questioning is often brutal and chiding.
- Rudman does not hold back his contempt for Gulf War
- veterans. He even treated myself very badly when I went
- up to shake his hand, and we had never met before.
That morning I asked Admiral Zumwalt is he had received - a special CD I had mailed him. He said yes, and I smiled
- knowing he had some decent material to review. Nothing
- came of it, and old Elmo took it to his grave.
Former VA Director Jesse Brown was pleasant with us, - and promised us he would look into our own cases. We
- would never hear another word from him again. Yet one
- more empty promise among so many. He took that
to
- his grave.
Much like the Presidential Advisory Committee, this panel - was composed of Government agents that were going to
- bury any other evidence that might had slipped other
- channels. The fights of the staff had been
heard about,
- Dr. Vinh Cam and many of the civilian staff gave into the
- more aggressive military staff - and the vicious Warren
- Rudman. They were divided internally, and many like Bill
- Taylor openly commented that they had seen tremendous
- omissions of fact by all sides.
PSOB would
be useless in the Gulf War struggle, Rudman
- and Dr. Bernard Rostker had obviously made a pact behind
- closed doors.
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