"Why it took us nearly a year to tell the full story of what happened to Navy Capt. Brett Crozier"

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Why it took us nearly a year to tell the full story of what happened to Navy Capt. Brett Crozier

Why it took us nearly a year to tell the full story of what happened to Navy Capt. Brett Crozier
The official story was not the full story.
taskandpurpose.com
10:20 AM · Mar 6, 2021

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-brett-crozier-full-story/

When Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly announced last year that he had fired Capt. Brett Crozier from his command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, it was painfully clear that only one side of the story was getting out – the Navy’s.

That is why Task & Purpose filed a Freedom of Act Lawsuit in April to force the Navy to release emails to and from Crozier’s email address around the time of the unprecedented novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak aboard his ship that proved the Navy had been totally unprepared to contain the disease aboard warships at the time.

“Immediately after Crozier was fired, I knew there was so much more going on in the background that we were not hearing, and FOIA was likely to be the only way we’d get that information,” said Task & Purpose Editor in Chief Paul Szoldra. “So I filed a request for all Crozier’s emails. I wanted to understand what he was being told and what he was telling others, and that would definitely come out in the email traffic.”

As a result of that lawsuit, the Navy has released more than 1,200 pages of emails over the past year. Between September and February, Task & Purpose received redacted copies of the communications in five separate batches.

Those emails provide a much different narrative of the events leading up to Crozier’s firing than the official Navy version. Rather than causing a panic aboard his ship, as Modly initially claimed, sailors on the Theodore Roosevelt and elsewhere understood and appreciated that Crozier had put his career at risk to get help from a Navy bureaucracy that clearly did not understand it was not moving quickly enough.

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1. Will Biden do anything for the guy?

A real "Profile in Courage."