Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1998 Page: 1 of 64
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The Community Newspaper For Gay Lesbian Dallas
Navy, AOL criticized over sailor’s discharge
McVeigh targeted when officials told his online profile included term “gay”
By John Diamond
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The e-mail from
the senior sailor covered routine mat-
ters. But there was something that both-
ered the recipient. The "screen name"
was "Boysrch," presumably meaning,
"boy search."
That small clue set in motion a chain
of events that led to the dismissal of a
17-year veteran sailor on charges of
homosexuality, and to counter-charges
by gay rights and privacy advocates
that the Navy and America Online vio-
lated the sailor's privacy and possibly
broke the law.
Now supporters of Senior Chief
Petty Officer Timothy R. McVeigh —
who is unrelated to the Oklahoma City
bomber — say they have until this
evening to get the Navy to reconsider
its decision to honorably discharge
McVeigh.
The Navy says the case is a clear-cut
violation of the Pentagon's "Don't ask,
ti '
don't tell" policy on gays in the mili-
tary. By stating his sexual orientation on
an online service's computer network,
and by using his screen name in an E-
mail to someone he knew, McVeigh had
publicly acknowledged his homosexu-
ality.
McVeigh says the Navy violated its
own rules and plans to appeal his dis-
charge to Navy Secretary John Dalton.
"I find it incredible that such blatant
disregard for regulations occurred and
then were endorsed by the Navy at
higher levels," McVeigh told the
Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
McVeigh's supporters say it was the
Navy that violated the don't ask, don't
tell policy by asking AOL for informa-
tion about McVeigh. According to
records of McVeigh's discharge pro-
ceeding dating from last November, a
Navy officer said he called AOL and
asked for the full name of a "Tim" list-
ed in the biographical profile page
under the screen name "Boysrch."
McVeigh
"I called AOL
and talked to a gen-
tleman named
Owen at Tech
Services," the wit-
ness, who was
unidentified in the
records, said at the hearing. "I said that
I am the third party in receipt of a fax
and wanted to confirm the profile
sheet, who it belonged to. They said it
came from Hawaii and that it was from
'Timothy R. McVeigh' on the billing."
Attorney David Sobel, legal counsel
for the Electronic Privacy Information
Center, a Washington-based group that
is assisting McVeigh's lawyers, said this
conversation may go beyond a possible
violation of the don't ask, don't tell pol-
icy. The Navy, Sobel said, may have
obtained evidence about McVeigh ille-
gally when the officer that phoned AOL
failed to say he was calling from the
Navy.
See NAVY on Page 15
Caroline Hawbaker of the Humane Society of Dallas
County seeks homes for Scooter and Scruffy.
Pets & PWAs —
Humane Society places pets left behind,
also deals with cats that have feline AIDS
By Tammye Nash
Staff Reporter
AIDS patient Graham Cole died last November, alone at
home except for his two faithful dogs, Scooter and Scruffy.
Contacted by a friend concerned because he could not reach
Cole, police broke into Cole's home, only to be forced out
by the two elderly dogs who remained fiercely protective of
their owner.
Police then called animal control officers who took
Scooter, an 8-year-old poodle, and Scruffy, a 10-year-old
mid-size mixed breed, to the city pound where they faced a
grim future. But that same friend, himself HIV-positive,
heard of their plight and contacted a woman he knew
through her work as a volunteer with AIDS Interfaith
Network.
That woman, Caroline Hawbaker, also happened to be
the director and vice president the Humane Society of
Dallas County, and she had soon moved Scruffy and
See PETS on Page 8
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