Pentagon Has Known of Crime Reporting Lapses for 20 Years

[rangerrebew]

Pentagon Has Known of Crime Reporting Lapses for 20 Years
AP/J. Scott Applewhite
 

By By ROBERT BURNS Published on November 7, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has known for at least two decades about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI, including the type of information the Air Force didn’t report about the Texas church gunman who had assaulted his wife and stepson while an airman.

The Air Force lapse in the Devin P. Kelley case, which is now under review by the Pentagon’s inspector general, made it possible for him to buy guns before his attack Sunday at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Twenty-six people were killed, including multiple members of some families. About 20 other people were wounded.

https://stream.org/pentagon-has-known-of-crime-reporting-lapses-for-20-years/

[rangerrebew]

The REAL question to me is, why didn't congress, which is supposed to have oversight, not know about this?  Or did they know and choose not to pay attention to it - which is their usual way of handling problems.