I'm sick of the f***ing games, folks!
"It is the rainy season in the North, and the North Koreans told him that almost daily downpours had washed away roads and bridges and made access to the crash site, a five-hour drive from Pyongyang, impossible."
Washed the paragraph out of the printed paper and right off Globe's web version!
Related: Weather halts quest by Mass. veteran to find war remains
Yeah, about those MIAs:
"MIA efforts by the US called ‘dysfunctional’" Associated Press, July 08, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged, and wasteful
that it risks descending from ‘‘dysfunction to total failure,’’
according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.
Like everything else they do.
Largely beyond the public spotlight,
the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is sluggish,
often duplicative, and subjected to too little scientific rigor, the
report says.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the internal study after Freedom
of Information Act requests for it by others were denied.
The report paints a picture of a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a
military-run group known as JPAC and headed by a two-star general, as woefully inept and even corrupt. The command is digging up too few clues on former battlefields, relying on inaccurate databases, and engaging in expensive ‘‘boondoggles’’ in Europe, the study concludes.
In North Korea, the JPAC was snookered into digging up remains
between 1996 and 2000 that the North Koreans apparently had taken out
of storage and planted in former American fighting positions, the report
said. Washington paid the North Koreans hundreds of thousands of
dollars to ‘‘support’’ these excavations.
Some recovered bones had been drilled or cut, suggesting they had been
used by the North Koreans to make a lab skeleton. Some of those remains
have since been identified, but their compromised condition added time
and expense and ‘‘cast doubt over all of the evidence recovered’’ in North Korea, the study said. This practice of ‘‘salting’’ recovery sites was confirmed to the Associated Press by one US participant.
JPAC’s leaders authorized the study of its inner workings, but the
then-commanding general, Army Major General Stephen Tom, disavowed it
and suppressed the findings
when they were presented by the researcher last year. Now retired, Tom
banned its use ‘‘for any purpose,’’ saying the probe went beyond its
intended scope.
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Related: Pentagon to reassess how it locates missing soldiers
I guess I'm done digging for now.
