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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on September 15, 2011, 09:54:06 AM
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The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony.
The four-star Air Force general who oversees U.S. Space Command walked into a highly secured room on Capitol Hill a week ago to give a classified briefing to lawmakers and staff, and dropped a surprise. Pressed by members, Gen. William Shelton said the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor. ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/15/lightsquared-did-white-house-pressure-general-shelton-to-help-donor.html
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Thug politics.
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Thug politics.
They begged him on broken knees......his broken knees.
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Kudos to General Shelton for sticking to his guns and not caving to the whelp-in-chief.
Certainly bucking one's superior is a suicide run career wise so my hat is of to the General for doing the right thing and siding with truth instead of allowing that POS in the White House to manipulate him..
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gen_William_L_Shelton.jpg/250px-Gen_William_L_Shelton.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Shelton
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Too bad it wasn't this General Shelton:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Henry_Shelton_official_portrait.jpg/475px-Henry_Shelton_official_portrait.jpg)
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Now the Pentagon has been raising concerns about a new wireless project by a satellite broadband company in Virginia called LightSquared, whose majority owner is an investment fund run by Democratic donor Philip Falcone. Gen. Shelton was originally scheduled to testify Aug. 3 to a House committee that the project would interfere with the military’s sensitive Global Positioning Satellite capabilities, which control automated driving directions and missile targeting, among other things.
According to officials familiar with the situation, Shelton’s prepared testimony was leaked in advance to the company. And the White House asked the general to alter the testimony to add two points: that the general supported the White House policy to add more broadband for commercial use; and that the Pentagon would try to resolve the questions around LightSquared with testing in just 90 days. Shelton chafed at the intervention, which seemed to soften the Pentagon’s position and might be viewed as helping the company as it tries to get the project launched, the officials said.
Michelle Malkin on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/notes/michelle-malkin/lightsquared-the-next-obama-pay-for-play-morass/10150285816115677)
If that bolded part is true, Obama is putting his campaign ahead of national security. Time to get rid of this clown.
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Michelle Malkin on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/notes/michelle-malkin/lightsquared-the-next-obama-pay-for-play-morass/10150285816115677)
If that bolded part is true, Obama is putting his campaign ahead of national security. Time to get rid of this clown.
Hey, he got the idea from Bill Clinton....nothing trumps reelection.
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Michelle Malkin on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/notes/michelle-malkin/lightsquared-the-next-obama-pay-for-play-morass/10150285816115677)
If that bolded part is true, Obama is putting his campaign ahead of national security. Time to get rid of this clown.
I agree. Guess that makes us racists, right? :-)
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I agree. Guess that makes us racists, right? :-)
If you're not a minority and you're still breathing, you're racist.
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Too bad it wasn't this General Shelton:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Henry_Shelton_official_portrait.jpg/475px-Henry_Shelton_official_portrait.jpg)
You mean the guy who endorsed Hillary?