Albert T. Church
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Vice Admiral Albert Thomas Church III (born 1947) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy. Church served as the Naval Inspector General and then Director of the Navy Staff until his retirement from active duty in 2005. Admiral Church is the younger brother of the former Senator from Idaho, Frank Church, who ironically was an outspoken critic of, and worked hard to hinder the U.S. military.
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[edit] Partial list of postings
| USS Excel | CO | August 1979 – October 1981 |
| USS Fox | XO | April 1983 – April 1985 |
| Surface Warfare Program and Budget Office (OP 30) and the General Planning and Programming Division (OP 80) of OPNAV | staff | May 1985 – October 1987 |
| USS DeWert | CO | April 1988 – April 1990 |
| OPNAV N81, BUPERS, Officer Plans and Career Management Division (Pers 21) | Director | |
| Naval Station Norfolk | CO | August 1992 – August 1994 |
| Program and Budget Analysis Division | Chief | August 1994 – July 1996 |
| Shore Installation Management, US Pacific Fleet | Deputy Chief of Staff | September 1996 – June 1988 |
| Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy | Director, Office of Budget | July 1998 – March 2003 |
[edit] ISTF - The Church Report
On May 25, 2004, under the direction of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Church assembled a team to conduct an inquiry into detainee interrogation and incarceration, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His team interviewed 800 Armed Service members, and Washington policy-makers, and issued their report on March 2, 2005.
According to Human Rights Watch Church's committee did not interview a single detainee.
While much of the report remains classified a 22 page narrative, written by Alberto J. Mora, the General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, has been made public.[1] Mora's narrative was in reply to a request from Church dated June 18, 2004. Mora's narrative chronicles his efforts, and those of his staff and associates, to make sure the rules for the interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo were brought back into compliance with United States law, and the USA's international obligations.
Mora's narrative describes learning that extended interrogation techniques, which, at least, straddled the border of what could be considered "torture", from David Brant, the Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, on December 17, 2002.[1] Mora's narrative contains several dozen dated entries describing the efforts of him, his staff and associates to get on record an alternate view to that expressed by John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales.
Mora's narrative sometimes refers to the abuses as alleged abuses, and, in other passages, refers to them as abuses, without the qualifier that there were merely "alleged".[1]
[edit] Awards and medals
Church's personal awards and decorations include the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards) and the Combat Action Ribbon.
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[edit] External links
- Copy of the report
- PDF Copy of the report
- official USN biography of Albert T. Church
- Statement of Rear Admiral Albert T. Church, Before the Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee on The President's Budget Request for Readiness Programs, 7 March 2000
