Coast Guard Report and CGBlog Spoofed

Kristin Ruggiero

The Eagle Tribune is reporting that authorities now know who the real victim was in a case that captivated readers of both this site and CGBlog last year.  Earlier this year we announced we would not continue to publish comments allegedly posted by Kristin Ruggiero, we’re  glad we did.

Many Blogs, Bloggers, mainstream media and domestic abuse services fell prey and victim to Kristin Ruggeiro.  Here at CGR we felt something wasn’t right when Ruggiero kept going after her estranged husband even after his arrest.  She soon took on the appearance of a stalker rather than a victim.

In May of this year, Kristin Ruggiero was indicted on 12 felony counts of falsifying physical evidence and a single misdemeanor count of making a false report to law enforcement.   East Kingston Police Chief Richard Simpson didn’t think the story was adding up either and continued to investigate.

Police soon figured out that Kristin Ruggiero was using a cyber technique known as “spoofing” to fake text messages from her husband Jeffrey Ruggiero.   She was spoofing us too.  But Blogs were not the only victims of this story, New England Cable News and other mainstream media carried her story too.

This site has deleted all previous post on this story in which Kristin is portrayed as the victim.

We recommend you read the Eagle Tribune article.

Did the U.S. Coast Guard Mislead Congressman Elijah Cummings on Civil Rights Progress

Five months have passed since the release the Booz Allen Hamilton report that concluded Coast Guard Civil Rights has failed at its mission.  It was back on 19 February that the Commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Thad Allen said in a memo on his review of the Booz Allen Hamilton report:

The Director of Civil Rights will post the report on its website and provide periodic progress updates for the benefit of the workforce.

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Five months later, and two congressional hearings the the only update the workforce has had came from watching the hearings on Webcast.  The reality is that the vast majority of the workforce (save for loyal readers of CGR) didn’t even know the hearings occurred.  Allen’s silence on the Booz Allen Hamilton report has been deafening to the workforce, they get it, “EO and Diversity are not priorities.”

A search again today of the Coast Guard domain for the Ambassador’s program turned up four hits, none related to the program announced in ALCOAST 381/09 this month.  On 19 June 2009, Vadm. Cliff  Pearson included mention of the Ambassadors program in his opening statement, but didn’t mention that the officer that presumably created the program was likely in the House Chamber during the hearing.  Lcdr. Wilborne Watson is assigned to the Congressional Liaison Office.   A search of the Coast Guard domain for Watson’s name turned up 5 hits, and again none of them on his Ambassador’s program.

So is the program real, fabricated or just creatively embellished to placate congress.  We believe its probably a little of each.

So to recap,

• Adm. Allen has been silent on the Booz Allen Hamilton report since 19 February 2009
• The Office of Civil Rights hasn’t published progress updates
• Vadm. Pearson announces the “Ambassador’s” program, yet no-one in Coast Guards Diversity Office can point to any specific information on the program.
• Coast Guard has not released even one document that supports the Ambassador’s program even exists.