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Bombshell: General accused WH of pressuring him to change testimony for Democratic donor
Hot Air ^ | September 15, 2011 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 09/16/2011 7:14:42 AM PDT by george76

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To: cubreporter
See # 39....thanks to bigtigermike.

Leni

41 posted on 09/16/2011 8:46:12 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Too Bad Those of Us who Work for a Living Have to Support Those who Vote for a Living)
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To: Bigtigermike
Thank you, sir!

Leni

42 posted on 09/16/2011 8:47:16 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Too Bad Those of Us who Work for a Living Have to Support Those who Vote for a Living)
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To: butterdezillion
I have come from thinking the US military was the greatest entity on earth to wondering exactly whose side they’re on.
The upper echelons of the military play the same "ivory tower politics" as any other organization. It's all about promotions and power.
However, I can tell you that 99.5% of most units are focused on the task at hand - destroying the enemy.
43 posted on 09/16/2011 8:53:08 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: george76

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perfumed princes of the Pentagon became homo huggers in order to please their new Democrat masters who wanted DADT repealed so they could sodomize the US military?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>


44 posted on 09/16/2011 9:03:42 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: CodeToad

As I read the article, he didn’t change his opinion and he informed the committee that the pressure had been exerted.

Colonel, USAFR


45 posted on 09/16/2011 9:16:29 AM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: jersey117
If there was just one democrat senator with an ounce of integrity, they would ask for zero’s resignation.... now.

Sorry, I lol'd real loud and spilt my coffee.

46 posted on 09/16/2011 9:22:34 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: oh8eleven

“... 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’


47 posted on 09/16/2011 9:37:11 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: oh8eleven

“... 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’


48 posted on 09/16/2011 9:37:24 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: george76

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?


49 posted on 09/16/2011 9:49:29 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Nothing will cure the economy but debt deleveraging, deregulation, and time.)
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To: oh8eleven

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.


50 posted on 09/16/2011 10:17:05 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: 43north
I hope that they soon realize that the enemy is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; ..."
51 posted on 09/16/2011 10:22:34 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: 43north

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.


52 posted on 09/16/2011 10:31:18 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion
the person who is supposed to give the AOK for border security is AG Eric Holder
Actually that would be the ever vigilant NAPolitano ...

53 posted on 09/16/2011 10:35:52 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Right. Holder is just the guy who is suing AZ to make sure that AZ can’t enforce the law either.


54 posted on 09/16/2011 10:44:07 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: brownsfan
Pfffft... Pravda will ignore, the sheeple won’t have any idea, and things will continue as usual.

Sadly, you are exactly right.

55 posted on 09/16/2011 11:00:53 AM PDT by sklar
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To: CodeToad

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.


56 posted on 09/16/2011 12:14:39 PM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: jagusafr
This GPS interference is indeed a pretty serious issue according to field testing already reported to the FCC in
a pdf filing by Garmen at http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/signal-processing/lightsquared-jamming-report-11030

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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57 posted on 09/16/2011 12:43:46 PM PDT by dickmc
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To: dickmc
Garmen concludes in their FCC filing:

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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58 posted on 09/16/2011 12:54:59 PM PDT by dickmc
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Eric Holder does not pursue cases against Eric Holder’s people.”

Combine this with the media whore wall of silence, the story is DOA.


59 posted on 09/16/2011 1:35:13 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: jagusafr
— 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:

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.

60 posted on 09/16/2011 5:46:07 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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