Ethics

MRFF Outs Biased Air Force Investigator

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, is quite a head case and he's been doing some things that clearly call his objectivity into question.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).