Posted on 11/09/2013 4:29:01 AM PST by markomalley
Two U.S. admirals — including the director of naval intelligence — are under investigation as part of a major bribery scandal involving a foreign defense contractor, Navy officials announced Friday night.
Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch, the service’s top intelligence officer, and Rear Adm. Bruce F. Loveless, the Navy’s director of intelligence operations, were placed on leave Friday, and their access to classified material was suspended, the Navy said in a statement.
Both admirals are being investigated for their ties to a Singapore-based defense contractor, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, whose chief executive was arrested in September on charges that he bribed other Navy officers into giving him classified or privileged information in exchange for prostitutes and cash.
Two Navy commanders and a senior Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent have already been arrested, and a captain was relieved of his ship’s command last month in connection with the case.
But the announcement that two admirals in charge of protecting the Navy’s secrets have been swept up in the investigation makes the crisis the worst to tar the Navy since the 1991 Tailhook scandal, when a convention of naval aviators sexually assaulted scores of women.
Navy officials said they were bracing for even more bad news to emerge from a corruption case that has expanded swiftly since it became public in September. “We do believe that other naval officers will likely be implicated in this scandal,” Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Navy’s chief spokesman, said in a telephone interview.
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#10 and #11 coming up!
Whether they are truly guilty or being set up, either way, they will be replaced by OBAMA’S political operatives.
Obama is cleaning out every high ranking officer that opposes him in any manner. This could be a real scandal or more of the clean up. I am afraid we will never know.
The 11 are still alive....... Obama’s mistake.
They now can lead the coup d’état from encrypted internet hideaways
I absolutely believe zero is purging the military, truth be told there have been more then 200 officers removed for a variety of reasons. I think he is sitting himself up to be dicktater, but something catastrophic must happen first on our soil. Not sure what it will be, but look at Israel and his betrayal of them. We are truely screwed!
I am not the greatest thinker in the world, but here are my thoughts.
Obama is destroying the Dollar by printing money that is not worth the paper it is printed on.
One day the dollar will collapse.
When it dos there will be Civil disturbance the likes of which we have never seen.
Obama’s military-—and by that time it will be Obama’s military, and his civilian Gestapo, along with various police forces will step in and we will have a dictatorship.
One of the things that might help this along is the Small Arms treaty that Traitor John Kerry and Obama signed. If the Senate approves it , we will be forcibly unarmed, the dollar will get crushed, and TSHTF.
It continues...
Anyone who believes anything accessible via the Internet can be hidden from big brother is fooling themselves.
That’s the least secure form of information dissemination.
administration targets certain admirals, then gets Singapore contractor to try to bribe them
the admirals are horny and greedy and the bribery brings them down, they were too stupid to imagine they were being set up, they thought their awesomeness and sexiness was that apparant
Pride goeth before a fall
The military comes from the culture of The United States of America. There isn’t some Sparta-like camp in Idaho where we send our future warriors when they are babies and they are apart from the rest of our citizens. I wouldn’t want that anyway.
If odumbo gets his way, the “facts” will prove to be true and there will go three more high ranking military people.
Odumbo is reducing our military leadership powers one by one. Soon there will be nobody left to defend our nation against enemies be they foreign or domestic, and God knows we have plenty of “domestic enemies”.
Shades of Hitler and Stalin. And everyone is standing by and allowing our military to be downgraded to 3rd world status.
What idiots. 30 bucks will get you dinner and screwed by two girls in Thailand. Bribery and mishandling classified will screw a 30 year career.
I know Twig Branch, I served with him, I worked for him. I do not believe this one bit.
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