User:Matthew J. Nasuti

       Matthew James Nasuti was born in New Jersey.  At twenty-three, he was the youngest Deputy City Attorney ever hired by the City of Los Angeles.  	

In 1984, he was commissioned a First Lieutenant with the U.S. Air Force and later promoted to Captain. He served with the First Special Operations Wing and the 487th Tactical (Nuclear) Missile Wing. Captain Nasuti was a military prosecutor, criminal investigating officer, and certified as a Base Level Procurement Specialist as he was an expert on government contracts. In the Fall of 1987, Captain Nasuti forced a one-star Air Force Inspector General’s investigation into a racist flyer depicting the Rev. Jesse Jackson that was prepared by senior officers at Air Force Logistics Command. While the high-level inquiry was critical of the flyer, the Colonel involved was allowed to resign the next year, the Brigadier General involved left the Air Force for a lucrative job with General Motors, and the local AFLC Inspector General, who initially covered up the case, was appointed Military Attache’ to Sweden. Regarding Captain Nasuti, retaliation by Pentagon JAG officials constructively forced him to resign.

      Mr. Nasuti went on to work as a manager with Bechtel’s Defense and Space Division, and then as a private attorney.  In 2008, he was recognized by the U.S. Department of State as an expert on reconstruction projects and was appointed a special adviser to the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.   
      Mr. Nasuti lost his second career in the Federal Government after he objected to safety violations, and to security deficiencies at U.S. embassies in conflict countries.  Mr. Nasuti uncovered evidence that Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) officials were providing embassy employees with cheap Kevlar helmets, along with ineffective ceramic plate armor.  Ceramic armor should never have been supplied to either State Department or U.S. military personnel due to its risk of unseen fractures (that would render it ineffective), its excessive and unnecessary weight, and the poor body coverage it provides.  
      In response, Mr. Nasuti began promoting the unique idea of light-weight layered body armor (titanium and rigid Kevlar) and other state-of-the-art innovations for helmets, vision and hearing protection, gender-specific body armor and he pioneered the return of old-fashion shields (upgraded with new tech).   The skimpy and substandard DS-supplied armor likely later led to the deaths of up to twelve U.S. government employees and Foreign Service Officers, and injuries to many others.  All of this was covered up, with the families never being told the truth, and of course no accountability ever imposed.  Parents should never have to bury their children, but that repeatedly happened due to bureaucratic incompetence.  Mr. Nasuti’s efforts had the support of the President of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), but even that did not help.  Full details and photos of this scandal can be found at www.nasuti.wordpress.com (U.S. Government Body Armor Scandals – State Department Body Armor Kills U.S. Diplomats. July 21, 2018/https://body-armor-scandals.com.)

From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Nasuti wrote for The Kabul Press (www.kabulpress.org) and is the author of more than 100 articles including: - “Women Remain Secondary in the U.S. and in Afghanistan” - “President Obama Should Waive Diplomatic Immunity for All Sex Crimes” - “Kabul Brothels Continue to Service NATO” (This investigative report details how UN and NATO officials and U.S. security contractors have been able to commit sex offense overseas with impunity and with no accountability) - “Obama Golfs While His Female Troops Endure Sex Crimes” - U.S. Abandons Toxic Burn Pits as It Withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan (American troops are among the victims of the Pentagon’s “pollute & run” policy)” - “EXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Creating an Environmental Disaster in Afghan Countryside (Part 1 of 3)” - “EXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Burn Pits Pollute Afghan Countryside (Part 2 of 3)” - “EXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Burn Pits Pose Risk to Future Generations of Afghans (Part 3 of 3)” - “The Ring Road: A Gift Afghanistan Cannot Afford” - “Building Afghanistan into Ruin” - “Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million, While Killing Each NATO Soldier Costs $50,000” - “Former U.S. Air Force Captain Reveals How U.S. State Department Trains Employees to Humiliate and Demean Local Cultures” - “Former U.S. Air Force Captain: Military Strategy in Afghanistan Doomed to Failure” - “Taliban Surges Troops While the West Surges Generals” - “The CIA’s “Ghost” Army is De-Stabilizing Afghanistan” - “In Decade of War Pentagon Sees Progress in Failure” - “U.S. Troops Unaware Koran a Holy Book?” - “Massachusetts Corruption Dwarfs Afghan Corruption” - “FBI’s Phony Terror Plots— A Dangerous Distraction From the Real Thing” - “NATO Troops Disguise Themselves as Civilians in Afghanistan” - “Afghan Aid Squandered by U.S. Political Insiders” - “U.S. Troops Are Needed More in Detroit Than Afghanistan” - “Obama Administration Encouraged Sandy Hook Massacre” - “Afghan War Dead Face Lonely Journey Home” - “Bureau of Diplomatic Security Poised to Profit From Benghazi Deaths” - “Remembering Daraz Khan, The First Afghan Killed by a Hellfire Missile Fired by a CIA Predator Drone” - “Navy SEALs “Take Out” 12 Year Old Afghan Girl” - “Why Did NATO Kill Two Afghan Boys?” - “Afghan Girl Killed by Reckless U.S. Mortar Fire” - “Hellfire Missile Accuracy Problems Uncovered in Pentagon Data" - “U.S. Embassy in Kabul - America’s F-Troop" - “A New Persian Empire is Rising with U.S. Help" - “U.S. Committed to Losing Afghan War” - “U.S. State Department - Ignorant of Al-Qaeda, Arabic and Islam” - “State Department Spy-Master Stumbles Again in Egypt” - “U.S. May Regret Crushing the Communist Party in Egypt” - “The Taliban is a U.S.- designated “Foreign Terrorist Organization” - “U.S. Drifting Towards Repression as Its Afghan Strategy” - “American Forces Use 50 Caliber Weapons in Afghan Cities” - “USAID Humiliates Aid Recipients” - “Petraeus Revives Dubious Body Count Strategy” - “U.S. Cuts Corners on Afghan Army Training” - “Military and Political Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder as No One Is In Charge” - “American Diplomats in Kabul Object to Working at Night” - “(State Department’s) Hit & Run Policy Fuels Global Anti-Americanism” - “U.S. Embassy Gambles Away Afghanistan Aid Funds” - “Stunning Alcohol Abuse Revealed at U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan” - “U.S. Diplomats in Afghanistan Work Under “the Most Difficult Conditions Imaginable” - “Illicit Sex and Boozing by Civilian U.S. Contractors and Officials in Afghanistan Undermining Mission” - “America’s "Phantom Aid" to Afghanistan” - “U.S. Officials Reveal Al-Qaeda Breakthrough in “Super Explosives” - “EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s Black Market Nuclear Warheads Are an Open Secret” Full texts for all of these can be found at www.kabulpress.org. Pull down on “Sections” and click on: “Kabul Press Reveals.” Open any Matthew Nasuti article and click on his name for a complete listing of his stories and access to them. Some of the stories can also be obtained by Googling the title, and full texts of some can be found at https://muckrack.com/matthew-nasuti (Matthew J. Nasuti/Kabul Press Journalist). Mr. Nasuti has written about terrorist threats to the United States that U.S. intelligence is ignoring and the misallocation of security and law enforcement resources, which threatens U.S. security. He has also written about how ignorance regarding Islam by U.S. Government officials across the spectrum has damaged our war on terror and aided the enemy. Finally, he is the author of “Why Not Try Winning the War in Afghanistan?,” which can be found at www.winninginafghanistan.wordpress.com and at https://muckrack.com/matthew-nasuti. It is a composite of his Kabul Press stories from nine years ago. It details a winning military strategy against the Taliban, which the Pentagon refuses to implement. As a result, the U.S. Defense Department has been unable, after 17 years and trillions of dollars, to defeat a small, primitive rebel movement that enjoys limited popular support. Why even have a Defense Department? The U.S. has not won a counterinsurgency war since 1954 with the defeat of the Huks in the Philippines, yet no one in official Washington, D.C. or in the mainstream news media seems at all concerned. Losing has become the norm and is therefore is somehow now acceptable. The above article also reveals how the U.S. drone war has been a military disaster and needs to immediately end if the West is have a successful anti-terrorism program.