DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE — OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. NOTICE OF INQUIRY. SUBJECT: SHAW, EVELYN M., BG, USA.

I read it standing up, which is a habit I have never broken.

The inquiry concerned the propriety of the investigating officer’s participation in the matter of United States v. Thorne, and specifically the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal of a previously entered recusal.

I want to record what I felt, because I’ve had four separate people tell me since that I must have been furious, and I wasn’t.

I felt the floor go.

The phone rang forty minutes later. Diane Kessler had been a JAG lieutenant colonel for nineteen years and has been in private practice for eleven, and she does not begin telephone calls with hello.