I listened to that call very carefully. Something just does not seem right. If he is real he is a fool and will soon be arrested and rightfully so. If it is not real, I smell disinformation.
The caller said the drones were not armed. Is this an attempt by the administration to try and get the impression that our drones are not armed? I also suspect the timing of this call just two days before the hearings. Something smells about this.
Even if the drone was not armed, it could have been crashed on the rebel positions. Flaming Jet A or aviation fuel makes a hell of an impression on bad guys as it burns the skin off their POS bodies.
The guy on the phone seemed to know a few things that real mitary folks know, however I couldn’t get over his constant stuttering and stammering. Does the Active military let folks in who have a diagnosable speech disorder?
“The caller said the drones were not armed. Is this an attempt by the administration to try and get the impression that our drones are not armed? “
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State plus DoD negotiate the agreements..
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/155050.pdf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016445/posts?page=20#20
Caller said Libya and US had an agreement that armed drones would NOT be used.
He never said we don't arm our UAVs. He never once said we do not arm our Predators. He did say the ones they operated over Libya were not armed.
He directly addressed that, citing the SOFA that did not allow our Predators to fly armed over Libya.
He was a sensor operator, so he watched the events real-time as they unfolded and he only referenced unclassified data because, as he correctly pointed out, classified data has not been released.
He did speak using unclassified data that, while not in the public domain, most certainly is circulating within the various mil deps and other agencies.
Timing is easy. . .after waiting the first time around during the ARB, and never being contacted, and now the hearing is about to be started and yet again, he is not being contacted, he was driven to step forward to ensure truth was brought out in the open, even in the face of possible democratic threats (as well as being unjustly maligned by “conservatives” that are looking for a conspiracy and unjustly accused him of being part of the cover-up).
Time to do the right thing. He felt it, he knows it and the best way to ensure he and his fellow operators are not ignored is to raise the issue publicly in such a way that does not compromise classified data and draws attention to the fact there are many other witnesses NOT on the ground
He will not be arrested because he broke no law. Period.
“Even if the drone was not armed, it could have been crashed on the rebel positions.”
I’m pretty sure the military has a standing order against purposefully crashing equipment that costs billions of dollars.