inside the base also the area where my son is supposed to be di. i'm part of these. people they help much about the area he told me about eighteen seventeen two year cycle. shower toilet everything was the same but in different parts you see in this guy's a new guy you don't know if you know about two years ago or because he really u.s. government two months ago. i r c i took a peek to noise side of the toilet when my son has died. before i think you know it was small or something toilet but no ac real real is a big you guys pay for five six thousand people or more. and now in my head is something more and more sure you know somebody shot their way most on the side they shot. but i go back to.

everything you know. different in my head i would talk to my family what i see inside the base oh i see this all this old you know. because one was updating his family about his trip we were meeting with friends a can driving expert. whose findings were about to change the course of our investigation. and what specifically are you kidding john for it's very. well the dynamics of the writing are very consistent he has a print script we can see it in his samples we have some. looks like school know what's or chapter notes it's called chapter twelve i don't know what he was doing but there are there are notes that he wrote and then we have some other. government of the looks like government related. documents to

compare and i have a significant number of events so i was able to nail down some of the key ingredients in his known handwriting to compare so these are some of the characteristics that were too which is not as important because as him sort of clearly. his kind of identifier. and so we've got the word doctors if we take his known writing we've got the word doctors in his known writing there right on the money. we've got the word meanness known writing. the two which are connected. and we've got pain. which i can. find. this pain here. you know so we have it here and here and we have

it here as well we always have to keep in mind the idea that writing is never exact every time you write there's a little variation your writing evolves over time but it always has a variation within it and so unless you're understanding the dynamics of the writing you might see something being not exact and think it's different and it's not within the context of the writing. and so these are just a few of the characteristics that stand out as being. the highlights. of fires. with no definitive proof of why john was suffering and only veiled references the lariam in his unit's taking of the drug we decided to request all of his medical records through the freedom of information act but in the two years since his death his

records at all disappeared they've not been sent to the appropriate storage facility by his unit when contacted a representative from his unit said they had nothing to send according to witnesses weeks after john's death men in suits came to the unit's office and cleared of all personnel when they left there was no paperwork left with the name john torres the men failed to sign a receipt is required and witnesses were unsure who they were the most believe they were from the c.i. d. i contacted the c. id and asked if they had taken the records from the unit in a written response they simply stated you will have your sources to confirm their allegations i have addressed your questions as they pertain to see id good luck with your production. as a last resort we requested what few documents may still be on file with army medical command to manage the medical records of active duty soldiers they informed us that they would send a packet containing the few documents they still had the pointed out that what they

were sending had been included in the criminal investigation report we had received . when the package arrived and included the mental health evaluation cited but missing from the c. id report it was redaction free and at first glance it became clear white had been purged from the copy sent to the family the mental health evaluation was written by major robert ends m.d. an army psychiatrist who serving with the two fifty fourth medical detachment bag john died the c. id report stated that john committed suicide is the result of anxiety and unresolved sematic pain but according to major n's lee's evaluation his sematic anxiety symptoms are not sufficiently severe based on objective findings to precipitate such an extreme response his psychological stressors are likewise mild especially in contrast to the very promising future that would have begun in earnest in just two months with relatively minimal psycho social factors present a biological basis may be the primary precipitant if toxicology reveals the

presence of meth specialist tours this case should be viewed in light of other suicides suspected to be associated with the drug that is the first military document i have ever seen that seems to suggest that the army was aware that lariam may be causing suicides in the field and they were tracking and i've never seen that before i've seen the army say that there's absolutely nothing to this that this is safe as aspirin in his two thousand and four congressional testimony general pete testified that normally suicides have been linked to lariam but acknowledged the drug was perceived by army personnel. you know if you look back at history whether it was combat duty during world war two whether it was engine orange in vietnam the military has been always slow to react to negative things and they did things that could affect the soldiers for instance agent orange

for a while that we didn't believe agent orange caused the cancer and we later learned to did so then now we have lariam which the military created and the army invented lariam wall's known as method then army invented it sold it to pharmaceuticals roche pharmaceutical sales of the military so it's kind of hard for then at least my perspective it's hard for the military to acknowledge we have a problem with this drug. until it finally takes years of people unfortunately dying like in the case that you have dying from learning toxicity the thing about lariam that you have to remember is that it's from a class of drugs called quinolones quinolones actually are relatively unusual in that they cross the blood brain barrier so in other words if i take tylenol that goes into my blood it goes through my body it passes through this goes to the brain it is absorbed into the brain like fat and that is why the russian officials have

told me it gets in there and for certain people want to run as damage inside the brain the damage is done inside the brain. when medication is taken in pill form like a method when we look at how much is absorbed and it's got very good absorbed gastrointestinal absorption and it turns out that it's really heavily concentrated in tissues throughout the body liver kidneys pancreas and that includes the brain so when we're talking about neuro psychiatric symptoms or go so far as even talk about brain toxicity then the brain has some protection from what's in the plasma with regards to the blood brain barrier and obviously if a medication doesn't cross that blood brain barrier then it can't get into the

brain and cause damage but mefloquine obviously does concentrate in the brain as a dozen other tissues. concentrates you know very much. according to roche only one in ten thousand users suffer side effects from the drug but a study published in one nine hundred ninety six by the british medical journal found that one in one hundred forty travelers taking mefloquine can expect to have a neuro psychiatric adverse event unpleasant enough to temporarily prevent them from carrying out their day to day activities. in march of two thousand and eight the malaria journal published a study conducted by the armed forces medical surveillance center. the study examine the medical records of over eleven thousand active duty military personnel deployed to afghanistan in two thousand and seven of that sample the report states that almost ten percent showed evidence of

a contraindication to lariam with females more than twice as likely as males to suffer significant side effects yet the military continued to use the drug. the mental health evaluation also questions the care afforded john before his death ensley notes the johns medical records indicate he sought help for his symptoms and that after repeated doctor visits failed to find anything physically wrong with him john asked to be sent to germany for further testing his request was denied and he was sent to see a psychiatrist you know after repeated trips to the bases hospital and multiple meetings with the psychiatrist the medical staff still missed the warning signs of lariam toxicity according to police report specialist tours complaints apparently dated back to the beginning of his deployment possibly coinciding with his treatment course of lariam but in his medical visits no link was made between this medication and his sematic symptoms even when he was diagnosed with some form of anxiety there is no mention of lariam is potentially causing or exacerbating the

problem. military medicine is wonderfully well they get people off the battlefield very very quickly you know if you get your legs blown off god forbid in iraq they do wonderful job one of the things that military medicine is i think many critics would agree on is they are just bad at side effects whether it's lariam side effects or the anthrax shots side effects it is just not information that gets out in the field it is not emphasized it's not something that people are made aware of and it's a it's a it's a real problem because a lot of these soldiers are totally full of drugs and vaccines and they have problems and some of the problems are deadly. remember when you join the military you give up certain rights and certain rights that you give up as sort of free choice you are required to follow your community's orders and that's what the military is based upon that's why we can send soldiers into combat we can say go take that hill go face enemy fire because they're following orders and that

training begins very early when you enter the military you are trained to follow your commanders orders and commanders orders can be not only go ahead take the the hill charge the enemy but you'll take this pill because at the time you know they're concerned with the soldiers getting malaria and so if the soldiers get sick with malaria that reduces combat efficiency so as a result they say take this medication we don't want you getting malaria so the soldier has no choice whatsoever he takes the medication. well i think that individuals listen to what they need to listen to so if you put if you put an individual in harm's way they're going to acutely listen to what they need to know to keep them alive so you can bet that when somebody goes through basic training they're paying attention to the kinds of things they need to know like how to maintain their rifle. how to handle of a rocket launcher how to throw

a grenade. those are things that people need to learn to stay alive if you told a soldier that they're taking your medication which could also potentially result in their death they would pay attention to you sadly john's case and his parents' experience is not unique. my son's. death has devastated my life i. have moments where i'm happy i don't think i've realized a joyful moment in six years. i really believed in a very naive way that if i never gave up and that if i was diligent and vigilant enough and that i could succeed in having the military acknowledge that this is a toxic drug that should not be used to date i have not. been sexed successful in doing so i continue in my efforts and as many people who know me my friends and my family. know i have said to them i'm more than one occasion that if christopher had

lost his life in combat. that i would not miss him any less but i could except that i could understand that. it would be a real event. we knew it was always possible maureen palmer son christopher share a lieutenant in the united states marine corps and a member of its elite special forces committed suicide aboard a navy transport ship he was returning home after an eight month the point to the middle east his mother's investigation into his death including an autopsy and other testing would lead to a finding that chris had been suffering from lariam toxicity but six years ago when i sent my son to the marine corps an event that would never been possible was that he would take his life and so in answer to your question it continues to be

a huge open. wound in my life. an intellectual level i understand what happened to christopher that he had evolved because the drug was in psychotic state and psychotic break he was not in possession of his good mind when he took his life. but there is a part of me that as his mother of twenty eight years still doesn't understand how such a sound stable. vital happy young man could have devolved that fast. and that far three days before his death chris quit bathing stop shaving and his behavior became erratic he also confided in a fellow officer that he wanted to kill himself yet no one intervened christopher was very concerned with other people he picked up the moniker nine one one when he

was in prep school and continue to follow him through college and through the marines nine one one shave any time anywhere for anybody one of the things that's hurtful the most to me is that when i continue to review and review in my mind the days that led up to the instance of chris death no one was there for him. it's one of the pieces of this i find hardest to accept after his death the marine corps would claim there had been no warning signs chris was suffering as a cottage break or was in danger yet when his mother received a copy of the eulogy delivered aboard the ship it was clear his condition was known good afternoon is with a sad and heavy heart that i speak with you today as the commanding officer of india company i would like to thank those of you outside the company for joining us on our official day of mourning for lieutenant chris shays. we are not here today to memorialize or condone the way lieutenant shea took his life rather we are here

to memorialize the man we knew and worked with this last year i would ask that you not judge second lieutenant shays final act and act so completely uncharacteristic of the man we knew i feel confident the pending investigations into his death will reveal that some chemical imbalance in lieutenant shea took over his mind and caused him to make the ultimate irrational decision a decision that has left all of us who knew him stunned the highest compliment a marine can receive is to be told that you would want them on your fine going to fight chris she was the kind of man you would want on your flank in any fight that is the man we will remember and nothing that lieutenant shay had done in the last seventy two hours will change that fact i do have a concern whether or not the highest reaches of the command structure have some degree of a conflict of interest. because it took the united states army a long long time to acknowledge the toxicity of agent orange i mean i remember

working in a v.a. as a medical student where it was not a disability whereas it is now routinely. so i think that there. may be a worry. about opening up pandora's box and i think there's no question that the the medical military command structure is subordinate to the command to the line command so i don't think that you know surgeon generals of the army or navy or air force. you know speak out of turn i think they're there they have a clear. obligation to their superiors as far as the army is concerned not sure about the navy or the air force but far as the army is concerned they've moved to what's called combat teams brigade combat teams with the never gave combat team

you'll have a brigade surgeon never gave certain commute captain or major well the battalion commanders of the ten a colonel the brigade commander colonel all out rank the brigade surgeon brigade surgeon will make recommendations to the battalion commander or brigade commander but that's all the our recommendations brigade commander doesn't have to follow the recommendations or the battalion commanders not to follow the recommendations i know from my personal experience i was a trial counsel for several years meaning that as a military prosecutor i was in charge of prosecuting crimes that occurred within a particular brigade and as a result i would have direct contact the brigade commanders the battalion commanders the company commanders. i also would attend staff meetings and i saw the interaction between the brigade commanders battalion commanders and the staff and i think there is a. on i want to say a bias well maybe there's a bias that the support staff the attorneys the doctors make their recommendations

but the line officers. take that recommendation and whether they agree with it or not will consider the recommendation but ultimately it's their own decision and what they will do and i guess as it should be whoever the problem is that there's a bias against what the what the lawyer of the doctor is recommending and for instance his other commanders are saying we don't believe that lariam stuff or we don't think it's a medical risk or the research is really not completed then they discount there's a warning they discount that warning the other thing is to remember is the hierarchy again the medical command and some jurisdiction some military post will fall under the division commander so you think about a brawl you have the division commanders the big umbrella underneath that is all the units and if they're in there they're in the reporting chain so for instance if they're in the the chain in which they're being evaluated in any which way by the division commander there's always a concern about what you do what you report the chain of command and how it affects

you and. your own job you could receive a negative rating if you received negative comments from your own command as a result of what you reported up. for years. they are. still laying out. the mental health evaluation also put to rest the rumors surrounding jones to. do the unexpected nature of his suicide specialist tours this case attracted a number of rumors suggest. sting a cover up most of which were dispelled in the course of the investigation. rumors

at least had sent him a dear john letter were unfounded and surfaced as a means of explaining his. allegations of bramley drug trafficking with the theory that specialist whores was murdered because he knew too much were dramatic over baelish ment's who sources included individuals associated with the two females who actually were sent back for illicit drug use. somebody they don't know they don't know when they. lost your son in them a week or two weeks later they say oh you know what your son killed himself. you know what it is. was i work in some pain to yaba sixteen eighteen hours because we need to support my family support the futile make kids other finally i think. we're you know we've got the future i'm a kid may. be

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life from. good to have you with us reports say that twenty people have been arrested in georgia for allegedly spying for russia that's now going straight to. more details on this story what do we know at this stage. at the moment but we've heard the reports that said twenty people have been detained by do it in place a key is as spying for russia know all of the detainees a georgian insistence and under suspicion of having created a spy network and sending back secret information to russia now the timing of this latest spy story comes as so growing concerns about the internal situation in georgia in march you.