1.   No charges were filed and Sheffield was not made aware of the complaint until last month.

2.   Brig. Gen. John Meyer, who relieved Gorden last October, said he, too, did not hear about the complaint until Monday.

3.   Brzonkala did not file a complaint until several months after the incident.

4.   But critics said the policy was absurd, given that the agency did not get around to responding to complaints until years after they had been filed.

5.   But Marty Rotter, director of the Office of Regulatory Services, declined to reveal the nature of the complaints until after his office has gathered more facts.

6.   Hardaker said that she could not reveal the nature of the code violations or complaints until the investigation was completed, and could not estimate when that might be.

7.   He said that Samoan authorities inspected the camp regularly and that he had never heard any complaints until now.

8.   Hill dismissed these complaints until a news article about the vote fraud last week.

9.   In its statement, the Army said West had not been aware of the complaint until a reporter brought it to his attention Monday.