The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "DOD" ...
-
Is Radiation Killing Our Troops?
"'The Department of Defense uses depleted uranium for armor on tanks and for munitions to penetrate armor on enemy vehicles.'" says DoD medical expert Dr. Michael Kilpatrick. But the use of depleted uranium may be radiating our troops and civilians in Iraq, when "fine dust carrying depleted uranium gets in the lungs and into the lymph system, causing illnesses, includding cancer and birth defects in the children of those exposed." Other possible methods of exposure include ingestion through food or drinking water, and skin contact through open wounds or from embedded shrapnel. (Daytona Beach, FL) News-Journal staffwriter Audrey Parente follows the story of Dustin Brim, who died of cancer after his tour of duty in Iraq. Article has great graphic explaining depleted uranium armor and munitions.
Tags: Iraq; radiation exposure; depleted uranium munitions; DU; Army Spc Dustin Brim; Congress; National Guard; Gulf War illnesses
-
Dangerous Remedy
Robert Little of The (Baltimore) Sun reported that the U.S. Army has injected over 1000 soldiers wounded in Iraq with a medicine designed for hemophiliacs despite the fact that it is dangerous for people with normal blood. It can give them blood clots that could cause strokes and heart attacks. It costs $6000 per dose. Civilian doctors "have largely rejected it as a standard treatment for trauma patients." Army doctors say, in their experience, the drug saves lives by stopping hemorrhaging. Little says “Doctors in Iraq's emergency rooms, however, almost never care for their patients long enough to see firsthand whether blood clots or other complications have developed." Little reports that "the drug has never been subjected to a large-scale clinical trial to verify that it works and is safe for patients without hemophilia."
Tags: military medical system; Iraq; coagulant; Institute for Surgical Research; Germany; military hospitals; Food and Drug Administration; FDA; U.S. Department of Defense; DoD; Marines; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; U.S. Army Surgeon General; HIPPA; actionable intelligence; Recombinant Activated Factor VII; Novo Nordisk; coagulopathic bleeding;
-
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
This book uses the Coalition Provisional Authority's Green Zone Headquarters in Baghdad to detail "the incompetence and arrogance that bedevilled the [American government's]effort to reconstruct and govern Iraq in the crucial first year after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government." Chandasekaran's sources included former CPA employees who had returned to the U.S. after sovereignty was re-established in Iraq.
Tags: Coalition Provisional Authority; CPA; Green Zone; Washington Post; FOIA; Department of Defense; DOD; Pentagon; Government Accountability Office; GAO; State Department; Ambassador Paul L. Bremer; Kurdish Regional Government; de-Baathification; U.S. Agency for International Development; USAID; Persian Gulf War; Sunni Tiangle; Abu Ghraib Prison; Paul Wolfowitz
-
The Insiders
The George W. Bush administration has 6,722 government jobs to fill with political appointees. For the all hoopla surrounding the cabinet nominees, some very real power is wielded by those with titles such as "deputy assistant secretary of health and Human Services for healthy policy in the office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation." This article looks at the behind-the-scenes post in each cabinet.
Tags: EPA; NHTSA; Treasury; Federal Energy Regulatory Committee; FERC; Office of Federal Procurement Policy; OMB; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; OSHA; Department of Defense; DOD
-
Operations Other Than War
The Progressive found that recent research papers from the Army War College nad the Air Command and Staff College indicate that inside the defense establishment there is wide-ranging discussion of military involvement in all kinds of nontraditional conflict scenarios. It reveals that the military is developing high-powered microwave weapons for use against human beings. (January 1996)
-
Stealth Albatross
The Washington Post Magazine reports that "One question led to many about the Navy's A-12 bomber. How they were answered led to congressional hearings, a criminal investigation, shortened careers and an epic lawsuit. But no airplanes.... the United States Navy's A-12 Avenger, a plane that has never flown and never will, a procurement fiasco that has already cost American taxpayers more than $3 billion and is quite likely to cost them $2 billion more...."
Tags: stealth bomber Pentagon Department of Defense DOD McDonnell Douglas Corp. General Dynamics Corp.
-
The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm
Life Magazine finds that the children of many Gulf War veterans are suffering the long-term consequences of Desert Storm. Hundreds of families face official stonewalling regarding their children's birth defects.
-
The Gulf War Comes Home: Sickness spreads, but the Pentagon denies all.
The Progressive looks at the life of Gulf War veterans. The Gulf War Syndrome, or Desert Fever as it is often called Britain, is a set of some four dozen disabling, sometimes life-threatening, medical conditions that afflict thousands of soldiers who fought in the war, as well as their offspring, their spouses, and medical professionals who treated them
-
Persian Gulf War Vets
The Gannett News Service chronicles the difficulties veterans have had obtaining care from a skeptical and often unresponsive VA and Pentagon medical establishment. The series documents the military's failure to warn troops of the health dangers of oil field fires, shortcomings in DoD's ability to detect chemical and biological weapons, the destruction of soldiers' medical records, ailing soldiers being wrongly discharged from service, and the lack of substantive research by DoD or VA.
-
Gulf War Syndrome Covered Up: Chemical and Biological Agents Exposed
CovertAction Quarterly reports that "The Pentagon denies that U.S. soldiers were exposed to chemical and biological warfare agents during the Gulf War, but its own records contradict the official line. The lives of veterans and their families hang in the balance....while numerous sources, including military documents, link GWS to those exposures, the U.S. defense establishment doesn't want to talk about it. Its policy of denial is making it substantially harder for Gulf War veterans to receive diagnoses that include all the probably toxins and their possible synergistic effects..."
Tags: Iraq chemical weapons scud missiles Department of Defense Marine Corps cover-up DOD Kuwait