12-05-2016, 06:18 PM
(12-05-2016, 01:27 PM)Benton Wrote: No issue with reducing the time frame. As you said, there's not much in three years that going to make him more civilian.
My issue is he was part of the CentCom leadership that manipulated reports that prolonged fighting in the Middle East, and encouraged ineffective strategies.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/centcom-employee-removed-blowing-whistle-misleading-isis-intel/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/centcom-accused-of-manipulating-intelligence-isis-fight-syria-iraq/
The links don't scratch the surface, but there's not a lot of stories about it. I know 60 Minutes and ABC have worked with some of the whistleblowers that testified in Congressional hearings about the chain of stupid that's been stretching out fighting and re-writing reports of success/failure that go to Congress and the President. Mattis was part of that chain, as were the people directly under him. If he was one of the ones having reports rewritten, I honestly don't know. But I know it was happening under his watch.
I'd like to see him cleared of any involvement with this before proceeding. Or prosecuted if appropriate. File it under accountability.
Some say you can place your ear next to his, and hear the ocean ....
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