Soldier: Commander Tried to Change Report (GI's mental health report)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/prisoner_abuse_calif&cid=542&ncid=1473

A National Guard commander told a mental health counselor to change an evaluation to show that a serviceman who accused fellow soldiers of abusing Iraqi prisoners was mentally unfit, another soldier says.


The commander has refused to comment on the allegation. And it is not clear whether the evaluation was, in fact, changed.


Sgt. Greg Ford of the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion has said he was stripped of his duties and ordered to see combat-stress counselors after reporting that three fellow soldiers in the California National Guard unit brazenly abused Iraqi detainees during interrogations in Samarra last year. He said the soldiers choked detainees, threatened them with guns and stuck lit cigarettes in their ears.


Ford was placed under the supervision of Sgt. 1st Class Michael Marciello, a team leader in the battalion. In an interview this week, Marciello said he was ordered to watch Ford's behavior at all times.

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1. That a favorite Soviet trick.

Someone speaks up... put them in involuntary psychiatric care.