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2021-09-17 Government Corruption
'Fakeout'? As lawmakers demand answers on Afghanistan, SecDef Austin shifts focus to Havana Syndrome
[Just The News] Austin's note comes at a time when he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley are under scrutiny over numerous recent events that they personally have been involved in.

As lawmakers demand answers from the two top Pentagon leaders on issues ranging from the botched U.S. exit from Afghanistan to surreptitious direct contact with an adversary, U.S. defense chief Lloyd Austin shifted focus toward what one insider terms a "convenient fakeout."

Austin on Wednesday sent a memo to all Department of Defense personnel, advising them to be on the lookout for Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), otherwise known as Havana Syndrome.

A 2020 report by the National Academies of Science found "directed, pulsed, radiofrequency energy" was the most plausible explanation for the symptoms, which first were reported by American government personnel stationed in Havana, Cuba.

Although some 200 American officials have reported since 2016 that they were hit with the syndrome, Austin's note comes at a time when he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley are under scrutiny over numerous recent events that they personally have been involved in.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-17 06:35|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Could the calls to China actually have been a carefully planned media diversion ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-17 06:42||   2021-09-17 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Infrasound microphones, ultrasound microphones, broadband radio receivers and spectral analyzers are readily available technology.

We're not talking about ectoplasm or neutrinos.

The presence or absence of "directed, pulsed, radiofrequency/sound energy" can be objectively verified.

This doesn't make sense at all.

Are they trying to construct a 21st century Twinkie defense for Milley?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-09-17 08:20||   2021-09-17 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Put him under oath. Let him know things were recorded by foreign allies. Let him either lie and be arrested, or tell the truth and be arrested. Easy-peazy.
Posted by ruprecht 2021-09-17 12:14||   2021-09-17 12:14|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Austin will have no trouble as long as NSA and CIA support him; however, it still appears that the Intel community is at odds with the Military over who will take the fall for Afghanistan.
Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-17 17:50||   2021-09-17 17:50|| Front Page Top

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