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 ...
>He said, “But it’s their job to keep America safe!”
And it is frequently the governor’s job to keep their state safe: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698298/posts
{Don’t know if you’ve seen that, but thought somewhat it on topic.}
Having communicated with the players, let me just say the press didn’t get everything right. He was consistent throughout.
Colonel, USAFR
This, tho, is more than the usual corruption we've come to expect from this administration. This is a matter of national security.
This is a very big deal.
Someone said on another thread this administration’s so bad their corruption is incompetent!
GPS existed first, properly filtered or not. The moment the interference problem surfaced the lightspeed frequencies should have been denied. The FCC should be on top of this and not release frequencies that will interfere with previously existing technology to this potential. INstead Lightspeed arrogantly acts like it is the existing technologie’s responsibility to change and spend tons of money to do so - and the FCC sits on it’s thumb. Meanwhile the Obama adminstation touts the forced GPS modifications and money spend as a great example economic development and adding jobs. That’s apparently how those doorknobs think, (if you can even pretend there’s rational thought involved).
I held your position until the engineer explained to me that equipment should be designed to specifications.
A lot of existing GPS receivers are not.
If we can't convince people that the ATF giving guns to cartels under the direction of Ubama and his racist Attorney General isn't something worthy of federal prison, good luck getting this to stick.
Lightspeed bought a company that owned frequencies designated for satellite use then exploited a loophole to “augment” those low powered signals with high powered ground based transmitters. In other words the lightspeed system is a high powered ground based system using frequencies originally intended to be used by satellite systems like GPS. It seems it’s the the high power of the ground based transmitters next to GPS reciever frequencies set up for low power satellite signals that causes the problems. It’s like a top fuel V-8 running next to a weedeater, which will you hear?
Permission for lightspeed to use high powered ground based transmitters in what’s been a satillite frequency range might have come in the form of an FCC waiver, there seems to be politics involved and if someone would “follow the money” they would probably get to the root of it.
Like someone posted, even this administration’s corruption is incompetent.
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