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MRFF Outs Biased
Air Force Investigator

September 3, 2009

By: Ed Brayton

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation got its start after Mikey Weinstein, its founder, saw his children get discriminated against and mistreated while attending the Air Force Academy. In 2005, he demanded an investigation into proselytizing and religious coercion at the academy and the Air Force issued a report that acknowledged some problems but generally played down the seriousness of those problems.

A separate investigation was done into allegations against the commandant of the Academy, Brig. General Johnny Weida. The Pentagon sent out an investigator to look at those allegations, Col. Donald Higgins, who cleared Weida of all seven charges. And Higgins, it turns out, is quite a head case and he's been doing some things that clearly call his objectivity into question.

Higgins has been openly mocking Weinstein, sending him nasty and harassing emails and making light of those who complained about inappropriate conduct by Academy officers toward cadets. You really have to see some of this stuff. Here's a fake form that Higgins emailed to Weinstein that shows how seriously he takes any such allegations of wrongdoing. It is made to look like a real military form but it was created solely to mock anyone who dares to challenge inappropriate religious conduct in the military.

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Here's a second item Higgins emailed, this time a fake news report from AP as reprinted in the Washington Times that contains false claims about Mikey's son:

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And here's the third thing Higgins sent by email, another fake news article about Mikey being beaten up at the Air Force Academy by another cadet:

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MRFF has sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asking him to reopen the 2005 investigation now that this outrageous behavior by the chief investigator that helped in that investigation has been exposed. Here is a copy of that letter:

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