Frank Kendell was appointed Secretary of the Air Force by President Biden from July 2021 to January 2025, and with that nomination came an apparent vow to cover and protect President Biden, while Biden’s Justice Department was putting the squeeze on President Trump.
In June of 2023, when President Trump was indicted by former US Attorney Merrick Garland, a year prior while President Trump was under investigation, US Congressman Barry Moore requested President Biden to investigate Frank Kendall and his Air Force, surrounding the dubious conviction of Major Clarence Anderson III.
(see Attachment #1 below)
For those who don’t remember, President Trump was in the works of ordering Major Anderson a new trial, after Anderson declined a pardon from the Trump Administration in 2020.
The summary of Anderson’s court martial in 2015 involved an affair from his ex-wife, he gaining custody of their young daughter because of the affair, his mother-in-law paying $100K to his wife’s lover to deny the affair never happened, and an Air Force cover up.
In April of 2015 when Anderson was found guilty of alleged domestic violence of his then ex-wife, it came to light that the Obama Administration with Biden as the VP, passed a series of orders that were summarized in several military court martials that secured convictions against innocent service members.
In one case, United States vs Brandon T. Wright, the Air Force’s top prosecutor, Lieutenant General Richard T. Harding, was cited saying that unless there is a smoking gun, victims will be believed and all accusations will go to court martial regardless of the case’s merits.
This policy was evident in the Anderson case especially since he was never arrested and actually had civilian police officers testify at his court martial, that they never found any evidence that Major Anderson ever committed any crime against his now ex-wife.
In fact after Anderson’s conviction, his mother secretly recorded his wife’s lover, where he admitted to lying at trial that he and the wife were not sleeping together at the time she brought accusations against Anderson. He also admitted that Anderson’s mother-in-law, Katheryn Magwood of Daleville, Alabama, paid him $10K to lie on the stand.
This evidence would be considered exculpatory in proving Anderson’s innocence, especially after the police testified Anderson never committed any crime at all. Anderson was granted a post-trial hearing where his wife’s lover admitted on the stand it was actually $100K paid to him and not the $10K he told to Anderson’s mother on the recorded call.
‘Military Corruption’ secured the recorded audio, and in a series of motions, Anderson also submitted this evidence to General Harding’s predecessor, Lieutenant General Christopher F. Burne in February of 2018.
(see Attachment #2 below, pages 2 and 3, Article 73 Petition).
Lieutenant General Burne acknowledged the evidence Major Anderson submitted to him, but refused to take any action to order Anderson a new trial, and then retired weeks later.
(see Attachment #3 below).
Military rules require that all new evidence discovered after trial be submitted to the service’s top prosecutor, its Judge Advocate General, and he or she will either submit that evidence to the Appellate Court (if an Appellate Court is reviewing the case), and if not, will act on the evidence himself. When Anderson submitted the evidence to General Burne, his case was no longer at the Appellate Court, thus General Burne was the sole arbitrator to order Anderson a new trial.
In 2019, when Anderson filed a federal lawsuit in the US 4th Federal District Court in Arlington, Virginia, US Attorneys representing the the Air Force lied on the record at a hearing, and told Federal Judge, Anthony J. Trenga, that Anderson never submitted evidence of the recorded phone call during his military appeals.
This was clearly false, because Anderson submitted the evidence to General Burne in February 2018.
(see Attach #4 below, pages 15 and 16, Judge Trenga’s erroneous ruling that Anderson never submitted the evidence of the recorded call).
When the 4th Federal Court closed ranks and denied Anderson’s appeals, he filed a second lawsuit in Alabama’s 11th Federal District in April of 2023, against Secretary Frank Kendall.
This was approximately ten months after Congressman Barry Moore’s June 2022 request to have Biden investigate Frank Kendall, and two months prior to President Trump being indicted in June 2023 for alleged handling of classified documents.
(see Attach #5 below, pages 9 and 20, where Major Anderson discloses in his lawsuit evidence of the recorded call against Frank Kendall).
President Biden, in what can only be viewed as an attempt to keep all the negative attention on President Trump, and prevent Trump from a second term, used his Executive power to bury Congressman Moore’s request to have his Justice Department investigate Frank Kendall, and ordered Frank Kendall’s Air Force to investigate itself.
(see Attach #6 below, the Air Force responds to Congressman Moore’s request and not the Department of Justice).
It would be political suicide for President Biden to honor Congressman Moore’s request, because no President wants an independent investigator from the Department of Justice, to investigate a seemingly meaningless case of an Air Force Major, that would ultimately highlight to the American public how both he and President Obama not only railroaded Major Anderson, but countless other service members like him. Remember an independent investigator from the Justice Department is what buried Bill Clinton.
In a political environment to indict President Trump in an actual courtroom or in the courtroom of public opinion, it is evident Frank Kendall will choose politics over his allegiance to the Airmen who served under him, or the safety of President Trump.”
ATTACHEMENTS TO THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE NARRITIVE ABOVE…
- Senator Barry Moore’s petition to President Biden for DOJ to investigate
- Article 73, petition to Lt. Gen. Burne
- TJAG acknowledges evidence but denies Article 73
- District Judge Ruling, February 2020
- Second lawsuit filed to Secretary Frank Kendall
- President Biden sends Senator Moore’s request to Secretary Frank Kendall telling him to investigate himself.
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