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In 1999, the House of Representatives voted 230-197 to close down the school, though the school was not closed. The 1999 vote was taken by the Pentagon to be a warning shot and they backtracked, saying that the SOA could be reformed. In 2000, to avoid a purchase online prednisone without rx second vote, the Department of Defense introduced their own project in the purchase online prednisone without rx Defense Authorization bill, which closed down the SOA but opened the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in the same building on January 17, 2001. The SOA Watch movement's analysis was that purchase online prednisone without rx it was the same school, in the same place, with basically the same curriculum.

Despite the US Government's claims that a new vetting process had been installed for instructors at the SOA/WHINSEC post-2001, grassroots investigations found that students and instructors who had been implicated and investigated for human rights violations and other crimes were studying or training at the SOA/WHINSEC up until 2003. You can read a full analysis of WHINSEC here.

As a response to these investigations, the US Government decided to discontinue releasing the names of graduates and instructors, exposing the hypocrisy of the SOA/WHINSEC's stated mission of fostering "transparency" and promoting "democratic values" in the Americas. While claiming that WHINSEC is the most transparent institute, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests since FY 2005 have all been denied, proof of WHINSEC's unwillingness to purchase online prednisone without rx submit to oversight from the public whose tax-payer dollars fund the school.

The human rights community and the U.S. Congress were outraged by the secrecy around the SOA/WHINSEC. In 2008 and again in 2009, the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill demanding that purchase online prednisone without rx the DOD release the names to the public. In 2010, this purchase online prednisone without rx measure was signed into law by President Obama, However, SOA/WHINSEC supporters in Congress managed to purchase online prednisone without rx slip in the caveat that the Secretary of Defense could issue a waiver to purchase online prednisone without rx ignore the public's right to know and refuse to release the information, if he "determines it to be in the national interest."

Predictably, the Defense Secretary has used the waiver to deny human rights organizations and purchase online prednisone without rx the public access to any more information.

In a recent letter to President Obama, 69 members of Congress said that the "rejection of public accountability and transparency is purchase online prednisone without rx a reflection of the overall values and attitudes of the Defense Department and purchase online prednisone without rx the WHINSEC regarding public debate about the merits of the school."

In recent years and purchase online prednisone without rx months, SOA grads are popping up across the region.  Six Honduran generals were linked to purchase online prednisone without rx the 2009 coup in that country, and four of them were trained at the SOA. Last year, in 2010, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the U.S. Office on Colombia (USOC) released their groundbreaking report, Military Assistance and Human Rights: Colombia, U.S. Accountability, and Global Implications, which exposes serious problems with the purchase online prednisone without rx implementation of U.S. foreign military training. According to the report, 30 of 33 Colombian brigade and division commanders who could be identified attended one or more courses at the SOA/ WHINSEC, and the research shows a direct connection between the SOA-trained officers and high levels of extrajudicial executions.

Similarly, in Peru, research showed that 7 officials involved in the 1985 Accomarca massacre were trained at the purchase online prednisone without rx SOA. In July, 2011, an arrested leader of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico claimed to purchase online prednisone without rx have recruited Mexican troops trained at Fort Benning. (The Mexican Secretary of Defense has purchase online prednisone without rx said that at least one third of the purchase online prednisone without rx original members of the Zetas drug cartel were ex-members of the purchase online prednisone without rx Mexican special forces trained at the SOA.)

SOA grads are again on the offensive in the Americas. Otto Perez Molina in Guatemala won that country's presidential elections on November 6, 2011, and in Honduras, "Coup General" Romeo Vásquez Velásquez has announced his plan to run for president in 2013. In El Salvador, President Mauricio Funes named retired General David Munguía Payés, also an SOA graduate, as the purchase online prednisone without rx country's new Minister of Public Security and Justice on November 23, 2011. The legacy of the SOA/WHINSEC continues to ravage the Americas.

The research that grassroots investigators and the SOA Watch movement have purchase online prednisone without rx done only reveals the tip of the iceberg of US militarization of the Americas. In November of 2011, SOA Watch's allies in Congress introduced House Bill 3368, which calls for the suspension of operations at SOA/WHINSEC, an investigation into the torture manuals and purchase online prednisone without rx human rights abuses associated with the school, and an assessment of military training in Latin America. (Send a purchase online prednisone without rx message to your Congress member, urging them to support HR 3368)

In February of 2012, SOA Watch will take the US Government to purchase online prednisone without rx court over its refusal to hand over the names of students and purchase online prednisone without rx instructors at the SOA/WHINSEC. This is one more strategy to expose the myth of "benevolent" US foreign policy and end US militarization in the hemisphere. We will not stop until they do!