They also were able to check applications to West Point of almost 50 years ago (which proved Carson's statements that he never applied).
Who in the Government (Military or civilian) is getting access to these records and passing them on for political smear jobs?
Is this corruption and abuse of power.
Or illegal?
Or is it FOIA?
It’s the Chicago Way.
Probably the same people who manufactured the completely 100 percent bogus birth certificate of the man who calls himself Barack Hussein Obama.
Westmorland in Detroit would have been in the Detroit newspaper, no FOIA required can be looked up. As to the other stuff? Who knows, but you have a point with this gang of thieves in control of DC now.
Background.
Politico tried to prove that Carson writing in his book that he attended an event in Detroit with then CSA Westmoreland was a fabrication.
Politico was able to check Westmoreland’s daily schedule and rather than disprove it, they verified the event in Detroit took place in February, not May as Carson remembered.
Westmoreland was at the time Chief of Staff of the US Army.
Those records belong to the US Government.
How did Politico get them?
Corruption!!!????? Where? Our Government? No way! Are you $hitting me? Why I never.....
Josef Goebbels is smiling from the very depths of Hell.
Westmoreland’s papers may have been donated somewhere. Applications seems like it would still be under govt control, even if 50 years ago. The apps should be private given the people involved could still be alive.
The stuff’s a matter of public record, and probably available at the National Archives, where campaign opposition researchers can peruse them at will.
Notice also this is on a Friday so the talk radio and other alt media can’t really address it til after the week end.
And, yet, Congress can’t get Hillary’s emails.
Do you oppose citizens having access to non-classified government files?
General William Westmoreland’s personnel papers are at the LBJ Library. His official papers from his time as CSA are at the National Archives. I believe that West Point may have a copy of his papers that were assembled for his lawsuit from CBS TV.
If his daily schedule as CSA was classified when he was in the office, it would be automatically declassified by now. And according to the General Declassification Schedule that was in place up to about 1980, it would have been classified no higher than Confidential with an automatic declassification date of 3 years after the date of the document.
I do not know how the USMA maintains their old records and thus can’t comment on actual applications from the 1960s.
West Point told ABC news there is no way to prove, or disprove, Dr Carson’s statements.
If there is no evidence from West Point, what is the source for Politico’s smear job about Dr Carson?
Think the American People have a right to know who gave Politico this fraudulent information? Politico needs to provide their evidence because right now there is NOTHING to back up their accusation.
Seems we might have Rathergate 2.0 brewing here
If anyone believes that a political machine - particularly THIS administration - won’t use every scintilla of information at its disposal to destroy its enemies he/she is badly mistaken. Any doubts, ask John Roberts, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner...
As Rush said today, it was "an electronic lynching being conducted against a Republican African-American candidate by a majority white, mainstream American liberal media where -- if you're not a good liberal and a good African-American on their plantation -- they are gonna take you out. And we are witnessing it."
Politico my ass, I renamed em
POISONICO
Good call