Who Is William Arkin?

The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/23/2003 | Hugh Hewitt

[Leisler]

You can read Arkin's lengthy speech here.

[RichInOC]

Who Is William Arkin?

Not only a major-league a**hole, but having a Hall of Fame caliber career.

[Leisler]

Arkin enlisted before collage. So why do I get the idea that his being an "intelligence annalist" wasn't so much as giving the General Order of Battle Plans for the Fulda Gap, as much as being a Army E-2 clerk that made sure floor safes were well painted and infantry platoon sergeants knew how to fill out SITREP cards properly.

If he had done anything highspeed he would of been yelping about it. He didn't. He was just one of hundreds in any late 1970's Army division intel ants.

I'd really like to see the blogosphere go over this guy and hang him with his own steaming soft sack-load of his own importance.

[Brad from Tennessee]

B.G. Burkett, co-author of "Stolen Valor" offers a guide for obtaining anyone's military records:

http://www.stolenvalor.com/foia.htm

[ishabibble]

Are you saying William Arkin, REMF? Totally, 100% agree.

Bill O'Reilly is on this guy like a bad rash. I've never been so bowled over by a journalist as I have been these past two nights. You can forget "Fair and Balanced" BO'R is totally BS over this Arkin guy's column in the WaPo. He is totally, totally back on the mark. I thought his hair was going to burst into flames!

Arkin called our troops, "mercenaries" and said that they receive "obscene amenities" in Iraq. I hope Bill makes this guy rue the day that he was born.

Most sincerely,
Marine Mom

[Leisler]

E-mail william.arkin@wpni.com. Chubby Tiger lives in the People's Republic of Vermont, and no doubt, belongs to the Bernie Sanders Mens Naked Latte Lunch and Sauna League.

He lives amongst the folk of South Pomfret, which I think Pomfret means 'potato ass' in French.

[abigkahuna]

I was there (in Germany that is,) right after this Arking guy, Only four years? Year an enlisted remf... Probably got to the rank of e-4, worked over there at S-3, cleaning the M-113, hell, they probably even let he drive the thing once in a while.... Or maybe he was a jeep driver for the S-3 officer.

Whatever...This Arkin guy is a real putz.

[groanup]

Who Is William Arkin?

Well it's beginning to look like he is the Republican's poster boy for left wing news media bias. He has a resume a mile long of jobs with left wing organizations and yet he is found in MSM airwaves and print pooping all over the Bush administration, the military and apple pie while calling himself a military intelligence analyst.

[Leisler]

I was in the green machine 78-84. I was in a headquarters company in a battalion in the 82nd. For enlisted it was just us medics, some cooks and the rest were basically chained to typewriters, unless the clerks got exercise by being released for some upper body file cabinet stuff. Anyways I vaguely remember an occupation, I think, called 'intelligence/annalist'. It wasn't go interrogate the SS Colonel stuff at all. It was the bottom, absolute, starting point for an enlisted guy, and basically was making sure people had their rating up, cards filled, safes locked in the evening. Anything of importance was done by senior NCO's. An E-3 would be sweeping up, making coffee and picking up the section sergeant's laundry. Maybe on a good day they would let you move the display cards during some presentation.

[sarasmom]

Many enlisted USA Army Intel specialists during that specific time frame had what can only be politely called "issues".

None of his active duty station assignments are classified, and all should be readily available to enquiring minds under the FOI Act.

A quick perusal of his DD-214 should supply everything you thought you wanted to know.
Have fun!

[Leisler]

"military intelligence analyst."

I get the feeling he's been smoking all his hippy lefty Peace Corps friends that he spent a lot of time in, like, East Germany taking pictures of Soviet tank farms with I-Spy infrared cameras while his blond German assistant kept the Porche idling. Wondering how many languages he speaks? I bet for security reasons, he can't go into what he did. (snicker)

[Leisler]

Back then I think something like 25% of enlisted were Cat-4.

[Bullish]

The left will leave no stone unturned in their quest to villify the Christian right.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

A complete pile of excrement! thats who he is.

[Leisler]

South Pomfret, Vermont is the next town north of .......

WOODSTOCK!

[cookcounty]

"He was an Army intelligence analyst in West Berlin during the 1970s," ...according to WAPo. Can we narrow that down?

[Leisler]

Villify? You wish. They want to destroy Christians. And, anyone else that has any strong identity. Only when people are completely striped, rootless, broken, can they then build them into the new socialist man, to be lead bt these elect, elite, the vanguard.

[cookcounty]

According to "the Memory Hole":

<< Mr. Arkin served in the U.S. Army from 1974-1978, and was an assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence of the US Commander Berlin. He was engaged in a number of covert intelligence collection projects and was the primary intelligence analyst for the West Berlin command. >>

[Leisler]

You know, Arkin, for a guy who puts himself out as an expert on near neigh everything under the sun, it's hard to find anything first source on this clown. Odd how he seems to imply a lot, yet not give details.

I smell rat.

His comments besides being lefty hissyfit, were just really poor language skills. What's up with that? He consistently says, writes, and prints outright falsehoods.

I think the guy is hiding stuff, big time.

You would think if he was an officer, he'd say his rank, schools, and such...but no it's all vague-at-the-bar-talk generalities.

Right.

[screaming eagle2]

Arkin reminds me of a person I knew a long time ago.He couldn't say anything good about American soldiers either,even though he was one.