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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 7 America supports you subject of in probe by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes the defense department is conducting a review of Ameri Ca supports a defense department Effort to support troops and their Fame the new York times first reported sat urday that the defense department inspector generals office was looking into com plaints that America supports you had allegedly raised and spent Money improperly the times also reported that the review would ascertain whether monies have been shifted improperly from Pentagon accounts intended for other an inspector generals office spokes Man confirmed the times Story but gave no further we Are reviewing Dod involvement in this web site America supports you and any related funding the spokes Man said on Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he could not say specifically what issues the in is reviewing be cause he has no specific evidence of any the review is meant to make sure that theres nothing that were doing that is in that is that even has the perception of he Dorrance assistant defense Secre tary for Public asked for the review out of an abundance of caution after hear ing some concerns about the America sup ports you programs business Whitman the concerns were raised during an internal review of the office of the Secretary of defense Public he we Felt it Best to have an outside entity like the inspector who has not Only the resources but the expertise and the experience to evaluate an organization and their contracting and fiscal activities to take a look at it for Whitman May be nothing Whit Man if there Well find America supports you is run by Allison Deputy undersecretary of defense for Public and head of american forces information which includes stars and Barber will not make any statement on this matter during the Whitman stripes publisher Thomas Kelsch says he was not aware of any concerns being raised about stars and i have no reason to think that any were he America supports you was founded in 2004 As a Way for the Public at Home to support the since the program has worked with a number of organizations to support troops and sponsored events such As the an Nual Freedom walk to commemorate the victims of the 11 terrorist email Jeff Schogol at  exhibit shows Gizmo detainees homelands by Juan Lozano the associated press Houston at first the photographs seem images of a Dairy Queen in three daughters in Yemen holding up paper Flowers made by their Snow capped mountains in the afghan Countryside that seem to belong in a vacation the the work of attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay naval where the military is holding about 380 men on suspicion of links or the were taken during trips attorneys made to the prisoners Home coun they capture images of them interacting with their clients relatives and offer remind ers of Home in the form of land scapes or snapshots of the family living room or favorite eighty eight of the photo graphs Are on display in Houston in an exhibit at Fot fest pictures from questions of photographer Margot Herster started gathering the images As the Law firm her Scott worked Allen represented 11 detainees from Yemen at the military detention Center in Southeastern she was spurred on by a grow ing curiosity about the men that her now a Law professor in would its a slice of whats going on in Guantanamo from the perspective of this relationship that had developed Between the attorneys and the Herster photos Are accompanied by text of interviews with the attorneys As Well As excerpts from military tribunals at Quantana the exhibit also features Sev eral Short videos family members telling the prisoners to Trust their As Well As a 15minute film where the attorneys discuss their another Section of the exhibit is contained in a darkened made to resemble the isolated environment at audio excerpts Are played from military tribunals at Guantanamo As Well As interviews with attorneys Dis cussing their although the photos Are Sim these images offered the prisoners a Chance to reconnect with their As Many haunt seen their relatives or Homes in attorneys some of the detainees became obsessed with the learning every de Tail sharing the images with other a photograph of Detainee Abdulaziz Al Widis three daughters in Yemen holding up paper Flowers let their father know they had received his gift for them Flowers he had made from toilet paper at a More abstract photo featured a pair of Gold that Al Widis attorneys gave to his Mother on his it was accompanied by a note in arabic that dont someone in the sky is taking a phrase Al Widis Mother used to Tell him my my a personal secure website for military families dont let life pass you by while you Are serving capture it when you have time build a permanent i living diary with your to fiends have your own secure space easy to use for All Ages grandparents to grandchildren Send messages at your convenience investigator dam links retired go to 85 rape fort newly tested Dan evidence gathered after the 1985 rape and killing of an air Force captains wife matched a retired Soldier who was acquitted nearly two decades an investigator testified the army recalled master Timothy Hennis to Active duty last year to charge him in the rape and stabbing death of Kathryn Eastburn and the death of two of her Young Hennis was acquitted in a civil Ian court in he retired from the military in Jennifer a state Bureau of investigation testified Dur ing the second Day of an article 32 hearing that she tested Dan Dence last year that was gathered 20 years ago in a rape the Sam ple was degraded but provided Clear matches for both Eastburn and she group sues Over alleged spying on Gizmo lawyers the Center for constitutional a civil liberties Organiza on thursday sued the jus Tice department and the National Security Agency in new York fed eral alleging that the government illegally spied on 16 Law yers who have represented detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval station in the suit demands that the government agencies comply with re quests filed by the attorneys under the Freedom of information act to turn Over All records of the Nsasi warrant less wiretap Ping of the Navy officer convicted of giving out secret info a Navy Law yer who gave an attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees was convicted thursday of communicating secret information that could be used to injure the United Matthew Diaz also was convicted of three counts of leaking information to an unauthorized a sentencing hearing was to begin prosecutors said Diaz mailed an unsigned Valentines Day card that included a printout of the detainees the interrogators assigned to them and intelligence sources and they contend that his actions endangered the lives of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in and of american defense attorneys said that the 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