Posted on 09/28/2013 6:57:33 PM PDT by markomalley
The No. 2 officer at the military command in charge of all U.S. nuclear war-fighting forces is suspected in a case involving counterfeit gambling chips at a western Iowa casino and has been suspended from his duties, officials said.
Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina has not been arrested or charged, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent David Dales said Saturday. The state investigation is ongoing.
Giardina, deputy commander at U.S. Strategic Command, was suspended on Sept. 3 and is under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a Strategic Command spokeswoman said.
The highly unusual action against a high-ranking officer at Strategic Command was made more than three weeks ago but not publicly announced at that time. The command is located at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb.
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I agree...something stinks
I lost that one about the time Van Jones was a Whitehouse appointee.
We've been compromised ... big time.
Why do that when he will have the Russians to do that with a totally neutered nuke force and nuke force command ?
Homo friendly, muslim friendly, hates Whitey, willingness to fire on US citizens...
I m amazed that so called antiwar are in factory gold digging jackpot liberals who love gambling and all its guns, government and gangster gigs.
Nuke establishment is direct CIC responsabilty. The leadership suck and something like this should be direct grounds for impeachment. Obama is testing everyone again.
The ill winds will quickly blow in another of hussein’s muzzy brothers to replace him.
Probably Israel as a trial run for the CWII.
Could it? Yes. Is it? I don’t know. There have always been senior officers fired. Just seems to be a high rate of very senior officers getting fired over the last few years.
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Idiot
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