Word: haled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Army colonel will never forget the way his new boss, Major General David Hale, laid eyes on his wife, Donnamaria Carpino, that day in Turkey. She was among the guests of honor at a summer cocktail party in 1996 welcoming new arrivals to a NATO military post in Izmir. "The first time he saw her, he broke out into a sweat," says the 29-year veteran. "It was obvious that he was in heat." But the colonel says he tucked away his concerns: "I presumed he was an officer and a gentleman...
Wrong presumption. Within four months, Hale had allegedly blackmailed Carpino, a civilian, into having a sexual relationship with him. Then, when both her marriage and the affair began to break up, Hale switched allegiance and offered to testify in the divorce case that she was an unfit mother. Yet when Pentagon officials found out about his alleged manipulations, he got away clean. Instead of facing retribution, the two-star general was allowed to retire quietly. His getaway so infuriated the Army colonel and his ex-wife that they have formed a temporary alliance and are going public with their accusations...
...Hale is the best evidence to date that when it comes to adultery, the Pentagon has two standards--one applies to the powerful and another to the grunts. Flinn found herself facing nearly 10 years in jail for conducting an affair with a married civilian (and lying about it); McKinney faced a court-martial for attempting to coerce six women into sex. Last March a military jury cleared him of 18 of the 19 charges. During the month-long trial, McKinney tried to say that he was the target of overly harsh prosecution and that top officers facing similar charges...
Pentagon brass would have had good reason to dispense quietly with Hale's case, because his alleged offenses made a mockery of the sensitive new job he had been given. The 52-year-old Hale was allowed to pack it up just four months after he became the Army's deputy inspector general. In that post, he oversaw all Army probes into personnel misconduct and was expected to help eradicate sexual abuse in the Army's ranks. "There are two systems of justice in the military, and those who practice in the military justice system are deluding themselves if they...
Army officers close to Hale's boss, Army Chief of Staff General Dennis Reimer, have been quick to speak up for the retired general. They acknowledge that they don't know for sure what occurred between him and Carpino. But their comments, designed in part to protect Reimer, the Army's top general, betray a willingness to disparage a female accuser. They suggest it was Carpino who was the harasser, the one "stalking" Hale. The general, they say, wanted to retire quickly to avoid dragging himself and the Army through the mud. "She thought she was going...