Former National Guard member says that he blew the whistle on the scandals seven years ago but nobody would listen.

Sarah Palin with Alaska National Guard troops during her time as Governor.

Courtesy of KTUU:

A former Alaska National Guard member said he blew the whistle to his chain of command more than seven years before the federal Department of Defense's Office of Complex Investigations issued a report in September detailing allegations of sexual assault, abuse of power and cover-ups. 

"What I found out is we were paying for products more than once," Blaylock said. "We only had one product for advertising, and yet we were paying for it more than twice. The money was going somewhere it didn't need to go to." 

Blaylock said in 2007, he alerted Catherine Jorgensen, who was then the Guard's deputy chief of staff and personnel, and Gen. Tom Katkus, before he was promoted to adjutant general, that he was suspicious of soldiers using money from the recruiting and retention account. 

After raising concerns to his chain of command, Blaylock said he was reassigned to another unit. 

He also began hearing from fellow Guardsmen and Guardswomen about other problems. 

"When the first sexual assault victims started talking to me, it wasn't like they were just coming forward, saying they had been raped," Blaylock said. "It wasn't like they said, 'Hey, sir, I've been raped.' They were just talking. They wanted to talk and tell someone about it. They would tell me bits and pieces, but never quite get to the point. When I finally went back and there were four of them one right after the other, I confronted them, just asked them: 'Were you raped?' They said yes. And I said, 'Was it by someone in the National Guard?' (They said) 'Yes.'" 

"Many of them told me they had tried to talk to law enforcement in the past and nothing had happened," said Blaylock.

It is incredible that not only were they ignored by the National Guard, but that even other law enforcement in Alaska failed to take them seriously or move to protect them.

Blaylock said that he tried to repeatedly to get somebody in his chain of command to take him seriously but that it failed him, and that he was not taken seriously until he stepped outside that chain of command and reported his concerns to Department of Defense National Guard Bureau.

This is how he claims he was treated by his superiors:

"I was labeled a crackpot by General Katkus," Blaylock said. "Essentially, anything I tried to bring forward after that was muddied because my name was attached to it. I had a lot of people who basically wouldn't talk to me, including in law enforcement."

Boy that certainly sounds familiar. 

Well now this is absolutely being noticed in the national media, and I have to say that this does not look good for a certain Alaska Governor.