Representative Weldon compared the treatment of LTC Shaffer to that of Sandy Berger, member of the Clinton administration, who took documents out of the National Archives before he was to testify before the Commission. According to Representative Weldon, that is a felony, tampering with Federal documents and removing classified information regarding our security and information that the 9/11 Commission needed to see. Berger initially lied about it. Then, he admitted it and was given a punishment. Berger’s punishment included a temporary lifting of his security clearance. He will get it back again, despite his lying, stealing and committing an act of outrage regarding this country’s security.

LTC Shaffer, a Bronze Star 23-year military veteran, told the truth and his life is being systematically ruined. They suspended him, and threatened to take away his health care and the salary that he has earned. They did not want to fire him because they did not want him to go to the media. Under suspension, he could not talk. They planted scurrilous accusations with the media. They trumped up charges against him, from serious to merely laughable, as accusing him of stealing pens when he was 15 years old, in their zeal to destroy this whistleblower.

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