Actually that would be the ever vigilant NAPolitano ...
Posted on 09/16/2011 7:14:42 AM PDT by george76
With the White House already reeling over the Solyndra collapse, a new scandal may have erupted today that could make the disappearance of $535 million in taxpayer funds look like a paperwork glitch. Eli Lake starts off his new gig at The Daily Beast with a huge bombshell — an accusation made to members of Congress from a four-star Air Force general that claimed the White House pressured him to change his testimony to boost a big donor to the Democratic Party:
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Rep. Mike Turner told Eli that this was definitely an attempt to influence Shelton, bias his testimony, and essentially mislead Congress. And that has a watchdog organization drawing parallels between Shelton’s accusation and the Solyndra collapse...
If the White House has been leaning on the military to mislead Congress in order to benefit Democratic donors, that indicates a whole new level of corruption, one that could seriously damage the non-partisan nature of civilian control of the military.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Leni
Leni
How many of these perfumed princes of the Pentagon became homo huggers in order to please their new Democrat masters who wanted DADT repealed so they could sodomize the US military? Sorry, but my respect for most of the upper military brass is down the toilet. Even the Marine Corps Commandant wants racial quotas for officers now.
They are an untrustworthy pack of political hacks.
(/puke>
As I read the article, he didn’t change his opinion and he informed the committee that the pressure had been exerted.
Colonel, USAFR
Sorry, I lol'd real loud and spilt my coffee.
“... However, I can tell you that 99.5% of most units are focused on the task at hand - destroying the enemy.”
I hope that they soon realize that the enemy is located at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue. Just sayin’
“... However, I can tell you that 99.5% of most units are focused on the task at hand - destroying the enemy.”
I hope that they soon realize that the enemy is located at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue. Just sayin’
If a tree falls in the forest and NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CNBC, the NYT, the WP, and the LAT don’t hear it, does it still make a sound?
I had a conversation with some kids I work with yesterday - junior high guys who often get in trouble because they’re bored and think the rules are stupid, which they often are. I told them that the rules that don’t make sense are largely for CYA (in so many words. lol) so nobody could sue the people in charge or accuse them of being bad or out of control.
They couldn’t believe that there would be people who would sue somebody for something that wasn’t a person’s fault. I almost had to cry at their innocence. I told them that not only are there people who would sue, but there are judges who would award them lots of money for suing. And I gave them some examples.
The conversation twisted and turned a little bit and eventually got to the no-go zone in Arizona, where our government has signs telling people not to go there because it’s not safe. One kid asked why they just didn’t send in Delta Force and MAKE the area safe. It would be so easy, he said. And I explained that we have the ability to do a lot of stuff that would make the world a better place, but it can’t happen without the permission of somebody in government, and those people in government will not allow it. He said, “But it’s their job to keep America safe!”
I said it is indeed their job, but the person who is supposed to give the AOK for border security is AG Eric Holder, and he has said that he will overlook crime by minorities - they are “his people” and he will not risk angering them. He needs their money and he needs their votes.
The look on the faces of those boys gave me hope.
I would love to watch “The Lord of the Rings” with those boys and help them understand that what Tolkein intended to be a picture of the power of sin in the spiritual realm also applies to the political realm: men are easily seduced by the ring of power, and it consumes them. I would love to explain to them that this country’s Founding Fathers knew that power makes monsters out of men and so they insisted that no person or group should be given power that wasn’t somehow able to be stopped by the normal people who don’t have enough power to be corrupted by it.
I practically had to drag those boys away from the conversation we were having. To finally be able to talk about the reasons for things that didn’t make sense to them was something they were very interested in. They don’t want to piddle around with stuff that doesn’t matter; they want to engage with what’s REALLY going on in their world.
Maybe they will be in the military someday, and maybe they will remember that conversation. Maybe it will help them understand why people in upper positions are often the least trustworthy of all. Even better, maybe they will come up with ideas for how to destroy the corrupting ring of power within our government and its arms - the absolute power that seduces whoever touches it and turns him into Gollum.
Wow. That one was powerful.
Officers specifically swear to protect and defend the US Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. That specifically includes enemies who may live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I just posted about the corrupting nature of power. Tying that to what you just said, I thought of a saying somebody mentioned in regards to the NM trooper who was photographed having sex with a woman on the trunk of her car (and pardon the vulgarity; the expression is what it is):
“A badge can get you pu$$y, but pu$$y can get your badge.”
That, right there, is an example where the high and the low keep each other in balance. The high always has power over the low, but if the low has no way to hold the high in check, it’s a recipe for disaster. Yes, for good order the troops need to follow the orders of their leadership. But if they have no way of exposing that the one giving orders is really an enemy, the oath they take to defend America and to defend the US Constitution is absolutely in vain.
Right. Holder is just the guy who is suing AZ to make sure that AZ can’t enforce the law either.
Sadly, you are exactly right.
I would think that to protect his own image he would NOT mention this if in fact he did allow the WH to pressure him.
The nuvi 265w. a very common portable consumer sutomotive navigation device, began to be jammed … at a distance of 3.6 miles from the transmitter….
A GNS 4320W, a common FAA certified General Aviation receiver that supports the FAA’s NextGen RNAV and RNP operations, began to be jammed at a distance of 13.8 miles from the LightSquared transmitter. Total loss of fix occurred at a distance of 5.6 miles from the LightSquared transmitter. This GPS receiver is certified for LPV (Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance) approach operations to 200 feet decision height….
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As shown by the Garmin testing described in this document, the proposed lightSquared plan to add 40,000 high-powered transmitters in the band adjacent to GPS will result in widespread, severe GPS jamming. This will deny GPS service over vast areas of the United States.
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“Eric Holder does not pursue cases against Eric Holder’s people.”
Combine this with the media whore wall of silence, the story is DOA.
They picked the wrong guy to try to pressure. I worked for Shelton at AFSPACE, and he’s a straight shooter and scary smart.
I hope what you're saying is right, about Shelton being a straight shooter. The first statement above seems to indicate to me that he bowed to pressure to change his testimony and now is coming clean about it. If that is the case, I wish that he would have played straight shooter right from the start, and told 0dumb0 & his merry band of corrupt commie thugs, to go pound salt.
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