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| LTC Ralph Peters: 'Release of failed prisoner rescue info was a murderous act.' |
| 2014-08-22 |
| [Breitbart] Thursday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News strategic analyst LTC Ralph Peters said the Champ regime releasing the details of the failed attempt to rescue the beheaded journalist James Foley was a "murderous act." Peters said the released remind him of "Stalinist bureaucrats' and the "administration acted disgracefully" and purely for "political cover." I needed no reminder. The "Stalinist" analogy is axiomatic. "I have got to address not only disgraceful, but murderous release of details of this raid," Peters said. "You just don't do it. The special operators are furious because the administration rolled them on the bin Laden raid." Independent voters were the ones "rolled." No self respecting operator would have voted for the Champ anyway. "Why do I say murderous?" he continued. "Not only because detailing which units are involved, tactics, how we did it, not only does that endanger our fighters, if we go in on a future raid, but the administration didn't think about the hostages still being held. They released the data, to the information that we got intelligence from released European hostages. do you think the Islamic State is going to release more hostages? We signed their death warrants by compromising that information." "I'm a former intelligence guy," he added. "You do not compromise a vital, above top secret national security information for five minutes of political gain. It's un-American." "Un-American" is a regime litmus test. Everything the Champ undertakes is for 'political gain.' There really are no exceptions. Throwing SOF or future sensitive operations under the bus is tomorrow's challenge. We've got the back 9 to play after lunch. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 The only solution...Impeach. do you think the American people have the guts? do you still think giving the Police military equipment is a bad idea while ALL major city will soon face massive riots and open revolt?? |
| Posted by: Hotspur666 2014-08-22 21:14 |
| #7 Gotta maintain President Gutsy Call. Even if there wasn't a rescue mission, they would have to say there was. Either way somebody else gets blamed. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-08-22 18:34 |
| #6 > This administration has minimal understanding of cause and effect. It does seem to be a weekness for marxists. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-08-22 14:38 |
| #5 I wondered why they released the info. Didn't free the hostages? So why report a swing and miss? Was it to cover that they didn't pay the ransom? was there pressure on them for not paying the ransom? I don't remember hearing anyone saying they blew that. I think they just run off at the mouth from time to time. This administration has minimal understanding of cause and effect. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-22 14:28 |
| #4 As my alter-ego state yesterday to swksvolFF Only my opinion swksvolFF, but the article released by the Pentagon reads like the aftermath of the Benghazi Affair, where the USG response was a "Day late and a dollar short" with the hint of "we at least Really only time will tell, someone is bound to let something slip, be mindful of the sources in all news reporting, we do not have a very critical MSM where Barry is concerned. |
| Posted by: Javising Snore4333 2014-08-22 10:21 |
| #3 You're all expendable for the power of the Party. What part of 20th Century Socialism did you miss? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-22 09:18 |
| #2 Certainly has to be either stupidity or treason. When juxtaposed with the regime's performance these past six years, I've pretty much ruled out stupidity, |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-22 08:48 |
| #1 Since your average single-celled organism would have immediately seen that tipping off the enemy was a terrible idea, you really have to wonder what the decision-making process is here. Are they too stupid to see the second-order effect, or do they just not care, or worse? But we've had that debate often enough. |
| Posted by: Matt 2014-08-22 08:14 |