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Air Force's 'most wanted deserter' discovered working on Janet Napolitano's staff
americanthinker.com ^ | 6/13/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/13/2018 8:19:47 AM PDT by rktman

he former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, managed to overlook the Air Force deserter with top-security clearance on her staff who has been a "most-wanted" fugitive for 35 years.

Nanette Asimov and Megan Cassidy report in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Employees in the University of California president's office in Oakland knew their former colleague Tim O'Beirne as the personable, brainy number-cruncher for the UC system's vast health benefits program.

They were stunned Tuesday to learn that the Air Force has identified him as William Howard Hughes Jr., a captain with top-secret clearance who vanished in 1983. The Air Force declared him a deserter and one of its most wanted fugitives – and some suspected he had defected to the Soviets – until his capture last Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: airforce; california; hughes; janetnapolitano; napolitano; topsecret; traitor; university; usaf
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Thirty five years on the lam? And for the past 5 working for for USC. Well, their policy probably doesn't exclude deserters or traitors. It is USC aftter all. And overseen by j-net napolitano.
1 posted on 06/13/2018 8:19:47 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Ineptitude Queen


2 posted on 06/13/2018 8:23:39 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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Too bad for him he wasn’t in the US illegally.


3 posted on 06/13/2018 8:25:49 AM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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"...and some suspected he had defected to the Soviets..."

getting warmer, warmer... keep guessing...

4 posted on 06/13/2018 8:26:09 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: rktman

Gee, how surprising he could hide out for years on a college campus.


5 posted on 06/13/2018 8:27:12 AM PDT by bcr100 (Its)
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To: rktman

You err, he worked for the UC. USC is a private university. UC is the university of California Public System, such as UC Bezerkly.


6 posted on 06/13/2018 8:31:12 AM PDT by D Rider
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AND Janet was the former head of Homeland Security under Obama.


7 posted on 06/13/2018 8:33:09 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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You err, he worked for the UC. USC is a private university.

University System of California?

8 posted on 06/13/2018 8:34:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: rktman

He apparently just got tired of the Air Force and wanted to do something else. Why didn’t he just ask for a discharge?


9 posted on 06/13/2018 8:36:59 AM PDT by proxy_user
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Deserters and traitors democrats finest note Obama&co.


10 posted on 06/13/2018 8:39:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: D Rider

YUP! Another strike today. Dang.


11 posted on 06/13/2018 8:43:11 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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The sad truth is if the JAG office didn’t properly perfect his desertion charges back in 1983, he’ll walk.


12 posted on 06/13/2018 8:44:00 AM PDT by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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Strange, I thought for sure he was on John Kerry’s staff. /s


13 posted on 06/13/2018 8:44:08 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: Rummyfan

USC = University of Spoiled Children


14 posted on 06/13/2018 8:45:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Another fabulous Leftist “educator,” Janet Napolitano couldn’t find her posterior with both hands. These are the people for which Middle Class taxpayers are paying outrageous salaries and exorbitant retirement benefits, while they poison the attitudes of children against their parents and their country.


15 posted on 06/13/2018 8:47:37 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Ineptitude?

I prefer to think Sanctuary Queen

She might have a cadre of such traitors working in her sanctuary implementing her shadow agenda.


16 posted on 06/13/2018 8:48:04 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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working for for USC

Actually, working for UC [University of California]. USC is a private institution.

17 posted on 06/13/2018 8:48:28 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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USC is either the University of Southern California (Trojans) or the University of South Carolina (Gamecocks)

So it's Gamecocks and Trojans...

18 posted on 06/13/2018 8:50:23 AM PDT by D Rider
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So it's Gamecocks and Trojans...

I'll take the Trojans over the 'Cocks.

19 posted on 06/13/2018 8:55:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I'll take the Trojans over the 'Cocks.

That would be playing it safe.

20 posted on 06/13/2018 8:58:27 AM PDT by D Rider
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