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October 20, 2005

Weldon was talking about Ewing not Ennis

Okay, I'm updating this because from all of Weldon's statements today it is clear he is talking about someone who was at DIA in 2000 and is still there today, trying to ruin Tony Shaffer's career. Ennis did not join DIA until 2004, so cleary that can not be who Weldon means. I think when he says "Deputy Director" he means "Deputy Director". Mac's ambigious post mentioning Ennis sounds to me like blowing smoke.

From his interview with Sean Hannity today:

This is a story that needs to be told, that has been stopped by people in the Defense Intelligence Agency, who were in that agency, the career bureaucrats that were in that agency, when they had access to this information, and did nothing with it. They're still there, Sean.

In his blistering speech on the House floor, Weldon makes repeated references to the Deputy Director at the DIA:

Mr. Speaker, in August and September I met with the military officials involved with Abel Danger and one by one they told their story, until, Mr. Speaker, leaders in the Defense Intelligence Agency, including the deputy director, decided they do not want the story told. I think because they perhaps are fearful of being embarrassed and humiliated.

According to this DIA web page, no longer online, but still cached by Google:

DIA Command Element

Overview: The Director of DIA is a three-star military officer who serves as principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense and to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters of military intelligence. The Deputy Director is a senior federal executive and acts as the Director's second-in-command. The Chief-of-Staff is also a senior federal executive and controls the day-to-day operation of the agency and the major task of leading and directing the agency's human resource program.

DIA's Current Command Element:

Director: VADM Lowell E. Jacoby, USN

Deputy Director: Mr. Mark W. Ewing

Chief of Staff: Mr. John K. Kiehm

Mark Ewing is also listed as Deputy Director in this DOD directory:

DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Dir VADM Thomas R Wilson USN
Dep Dir Mark W Ewing

Mac's Mind thinks Weldon is really referring to the Deputy Director for HUMINT, not the Deputy Director of the whole DIA:

UPDATE: Weldon was talking about the pressure on Schaffer coming from the Office of Deputy DIA. Well that's a little broad. I made a call, a name.....General Michael Ennis is currently the Deputy Director for Human Intelligence and comes directly under the Director's office.

I doubt it. Here is a short biography for Ennis:

Major General Michael E. Ennis was appointed Deputy Director for Human Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency, on 20 January 2004. He previously served as the Commandant's Director of Intelligence at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps....

Following an eighteen month tour of duty in Okinawa as a Rifle Platoon Commander and Battalion Embarkation Officer, 1st Lieutenant Ennis was assigned to officer recruiting duty in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he spent three years recruiting officer candidates from the colleges and universities of Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

In 1978, Captain Ennis entered the Foreign Area Officer program and spent two years studying Russian, first at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and then at the U.S. Army's Russian Institute in Garmisch, Germany. In 1980 he returned to Okinawa where he served one year as the Deputy G-2 of the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade and as the S-2 of the 9th Marine Regiment. Upon returning to the United States, Captain Ennis spent three years as a translator on the Washington-Moscow Hotline (MOLINK).

In 1986 Major Ennis returned to Europe where he spent over three years in Potsdam, East Germany as the Naval Representative to the CINC, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. He returned to the United States in 1989 and was assigned as the Operations Officer, 2nd Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Intelligence Group. LtCol Ennis completed a Military Fellowship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. He was then assigned to Moscow, Russia where he served as the Assistant Naval Attaché and as the U.S. Military representative to Azerbaijan.

Upon selection to Colonel in 1993, he was returned to the United States where he served two years as the Director of the Intelligence Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. From 1995 to July 1998, Colonel Ennis served as the AC/S G-2 of the III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa and in 1998 he was named Commander of the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific (JICPAC) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii where he remained until he was selected for Brigadier General in 2000. He was selected for Major General in 2005 and assumed his current rank on 18 May, 2005.

Major General Ennis' personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with one gold star, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal.

Ewing on the other hand, seems to have been Deputy Director forever:

Director Vice Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, USN
Deputy Director Mark W. Ewing
Chief of Staff John K. Kiehm

Wilson retired back in 2002. Here is another reference from 2000:

Mr. Mark W. Ewing, Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

My gut feeling is that Weldon is talking about Ewing, not Ennis, but that is still only an educated guess.

Posted by Mike at October 20, 2005 02:06 PM

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