U.S. military has ‘troubling’ numbers of failures in giving criminal data to FBI: Pentagon

The Pentagon’s watchdog agency says it found a “troubling” number of failures this year by the military services to alert the FBI to criminal history information.

In a report Tuesday, the Pentagon’s inspector general released results from a monthslong assessment it coincidentally was completing at the time of the Nov. 5 Texas church shooting in which a former Air Force member killed 26 people.

The former airman, Devin P. Kelley, had been convicted of assaulting family members in a 2012 court-martial, but the information was not passed on to the FBI as required by Pentagon regulations.

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Tuesday’s report said that from February through October, the military’s law enforcement organizations failed to submit 24 per cent of required fingerprint cards and 31 per cent of required reports of court-martial convictions.

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