Michael New - Mercenary... or American Soldier
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What happened?
On October 10, 1995, the 1/15 Battalion of the 3rd infantry Division of the U.S. Army came to attention at 0900 in Schweinfurt, Germany. All but one of the 550 soldiers were wearing a sky-blue baseball-style cap with a United Nations insignia on the front. One was wearing the olive-drab flat cap that is authorized to be worn with the Battle Dress Uniform. With this simple act of disobeying a direct order, Spc. 4 Michael New set the stage for a legal battle that has profound implications for the future of American soldiers into service of the United Nations without the constitutional permission of Congress.
Update November 2008
ISCAP
The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) is that agency of the Executive Branch of the US government in charge of maintaining the proper level of classification on government documents. It is located in the National Archives Building in the District of Columbia.
President Ronald Reagan created (by Executive Order) this department for the specific purpose of allowing a citizen, any citizen, to request a review of classified documents, with a view toward declassification and release to the public. This was a step in the direction of more open government.
President William Clinton saw the immediate threat of this department to his own barrage of secret executive orders, so he modified the terms to force citizens to wait ten years (until he was long out of office) before they could challenge a classified document. This was a step in the direction of more secret and more tyrannical government, in our opinion.
In 1993, President Clinton issued an executive order which he styled Presidential Decision Directive#25 (PDD25),
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