Video: Coast Guard Leader Linda Fagan Talks Tough About Cracking Down on Maritime Sexual Abuse While Simultaneously Protecting Sexual Predators & Issuing Dangerous Legal Opinions
New York, NY
By: MLAA
Here: A video clip from U.S. Coast Guard leader Linda Fagan, given on March 8, 2023 during her annual “State of the Coast Guard” speech:
What Fagan doesn’t mention in her speech is that she has not actually done anything to protect mariners from predators. But she has done the opposite.
In her Commandant’s Decision on Appeal (CDOA) published January 6, 2023, Fagan upheld the 4 month suspension of Capt. Mark Stinziano—handed down on 4/20/22 in a truly disgraceful, nonsensical, and dangerous opinion by a now-retired U.S. Coast Guard ALJ judge who graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and spent his entire adult life protecting the Coast Guard.
In her CDOA, Fagan could have revoked Stinziano’s license, but chose not to. Instead, Fagan chose, after taking 9 months to write her decision, to allow Captain Stinziano to continue sailing with and supervising cadets as a Captain.
In her recent CDOA, Fagan can’t figure out if coming up from behind a subordinate on the bridge of a ship, grabbing her from behind without her permission, and then forcefully simulating a sex act on her by grinding ones genitals into her buttocks is a SEXUAL ASSAULT or not.
She can’t figure that out. Fagan leads the Coast Guard, but can’t figure out whether a senior officer coming up to a teenaged cadet and groping, grinding and molesting her is a Sexual Assault or not.
Fagan also continues to allow the Midshipman-X rapist to hold a valid MMC and to sail with female cadets. Nearly 1.5 years after Hope Hicks initiated a U.S. Coast Guard investigation by reporting her rapist to the Coast Guard, Fagan has taken zero action against the mariner’s license or MMC and has not initiated Suspension & Revocation charges against him or anyone else involved in the crime.
There is something wrong with Fagan. Her moral compass is seriously out of whack from having served for too long at high levels of this corrupt agency.
The Coast Guard does incredible work, is filled with incredible people.
But at the top, the agency is thoroughly corrupt.
Acta Non Verba.