[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"He's impersonating an officer."

Would you please state, without breaching any military secrecy protocols of course, exactly your reasons for having accused this man in this way? Have you met him, ever? Are you not overlooking the fact that he has not sought inordinate attention and has sought no money? Are you not relying strictly on circumstantial evidence that supports your judgment? I call on you to justify your accusations.

[thoughtomator]

I just asked a question, nothing more.

[Cogadh na Sith]

I've, um, 'interacted' with those guys (spec ops). They are highly skittish about photographs--remember how many photos we saw of them in Afghanistan and Iraq covering their faces? Hmmmm?

Remember how many news stories we saw of them with first names only, no ranks?

Notice that even the names of the regular joes are redacted out of the Italian report that they then 'outed'?

Now we've got another name and rank of a guy in his unit, his name, rank and picture?!

And he can't spell 'Al Qaeda' (coloquially, 'AQ').

Besides, they don't even refer to them as 'AQ' in Iraq....

I'm still calling BS.

If it's true, you should ask the Admin Mod to yank this thread 'cuz we have a serious case of 'loose lips'!

Now how did he have all this time to freep with you and do 3 tours in Iraq and all the Spec Ops training?

I've never even heard of a special ops officer participating in a political rally--it's not forbidden, just too high profile.

Guys try to impersonate spec ops types all the time, there are entire websites dedicated to busting them out....

We have a few actual sneaky types here on FR. I have never called BS on them and they do not advertise it and no, I won't tell you who....