The Lacuna Project

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U.S. Army

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-2.7: The Army's official history of Vietnam public affairs says the Johnson administration judged "a low profile, achieved through restraints on the press at the scene of conflict" the safer course, records that correspondents called the nightly MACV briefings "The Five O'Clock Follies," and records their final session on 27 January 1973.
  • INF-2.13: The Defense Department Inspector General told the House Oversight Committee on 24 April 2007 that the Army's three investigations of Corporal Pat Tillman's death were deficient and that officials submitted a Silver Star recommendation "that included inaccurate information and a misleading citation that implied Corporal Tillman died by enemy fire."
  • DEF-3.5: In 2016 the DoD Inspector General found that the Army and DFAS Indianapolis did not adequately support $2.8 trillion in third-quarter and $6.5 trillion in year-end journal voucher adjustments to fiscal year 2015 Army General Fund data. The report states that the amounts are not cumulative and should not be added together.
  • DEF-3.6: An unsupported accounting adjustment is a change to the accounting records that lacks the documentation showing why it was made. In 2018 the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) told the House Armed Services Committee that this is not the same thing as not being able to account for money that Congress has given the department to spend.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 284 26 July 2016. DoD Office of Inspector General: Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported (DODIG-2016-113)
  • Exhibit 1006 1988. U.S. Army Center of Military History (William M. Hammond): Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1962-1968 (United States Army in Vietnam, CMH Pub. 91-13)
  • Exhibit 1007 1996. U.S. Army Center of Military History (William M. Hammond): Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973 (CMH Pub. 91-2)
  • Exhibit 1018 24 April 2007. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Misleading Information from the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes, Hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, 110th Cong., 1st Sess., Serial No. 110-54
  • Exhibit 1019 26 March 2007. U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General: Review of Matters Related to the Death of Corporal Patrick Tillman, U.S. Army (IPO2007E001)
  • Exhibit 1244 Findings completed 26 February 2004; transmittal 14 March 2004. MG Antonio M. Taguba, Investigating Officer, Deputy Commanding General Support, Coalition Forces Land Component Command: AR 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (Taguba report), certified copy
  • Exhibit 1245 August 2004 (executive summary dated 23 August 2004). MG George R. Fay and LTG Anthony R. Jones, Investigating Officers, U.S. Army: AR 15-6 Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility and 205th Military Intelligence Brigade (Fay-Jones report), executive summary