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| Lt. Gen. William Boykin, past Delta Force commander, hit with Army reprimand |
| 2014-05-24 |
| [Washington Post] When retired Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, the former commander of the U.S. Army's elite and secretive Delta Force, published a book in 2008, it detailed some of the Pentagon's most sensitive operations of the 20th century. Among them were the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran, the 1989 hunt for Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the tragically flawed 1993 mission in Somalia that killed 18 U.S. troops and was later depicted in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down." Retired military personnel who write about such sensitive issues commonly submit their works to the Pentagon for advance review to ensure that they don't divulge classified information. But Boykin declined to do so, forging ahead with publication of "Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom." The Army struck back last year, quietly issuing him a scathing reprimand following a criminal investigation that concluded he had wrongfully released classified information, according to an Army document obtained by The Washington Post through a Freedom of Information Act request. According to the Jan. 23, 2013, memorandum, the Army determined that Boykin's book disclosed "classified information concerning cover methods, counterterrorism/counter-proliferation operations, operational deployments, infiltration methods, pictures, and tactics, techniques and procedures that may compromise ongoing operations." The reprimand is the latest in a series of embarrassing incidents in which senior military officers have faced scrutiny for alleged wrongdoing. The military has been plagued by a string of such episodes since November 2012, when retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus stepped down as director of the CIA after an adulterous affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was discovered. Vindictive bastards! A pox on the regime, as well as both Odierno and Dempsey. Neither would make a papule on the arse of Boykin, spit !!! |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 I will always believe the Bin Laden takedown was pre-election theater. The parallels of diversion and blame between Pakistani polio Doctor Shakeel Afridi and Anti-Islamic video maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula are striking. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-24 10:04 |
| #4 Of course the current regimes work with film and documentary makers to cover the operation to take out OBL has never been subject to the same standards. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-05-24 09:46 |
| #3 What happened to Sandy Burglar in the end? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-05-24 09:09 |
| #2 Boykin's book 'Danger Close' had a very supportive cover review by former DIA Director LTG(Ret) Sam Wilson. Boykin's 'Never Surrender' was given a strong review by former Republican Presidential Candidate and Fox News Anchor Mike Huckabee. The selective release to Hollywood and the MSM of intelligence sources and methods appears to be no problem for the regime. One of the earliest assertions against Boykin was that he was the architect of the anti-terror tactics used by then SECDEF Rumsfeld and President Bush. A New Yorker article compared those efforts to the USA's Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War. Of course after the Champ went 'all in' with his drone targeting campaign, the Phoenix Program analogy was quietly dismissed. A reprimand can either verbal or written and can be issued for nearly anything. The suspension of a security clearance by DIS for violation of a non-disclosure agreement, or an action under the UCMJ requires formal investigation and findings. Just a guess, but I suspect Boykin's problem with the regime is his fundamentalist religious beliefs, pro-Israel stance, and statements/writings against Islam. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-24 07:07 |
| #1 Compare this to the bullshit soft approach of this administration on Gen Shinseki. Some of what's there are ops so old that I was privy to info or involved in support. We are talking 25 years or more for some of it, long past the declas for operational details classification. Even sources and methods are being declas at 25 these days. I think the outrage and prosecution is selective. All that aside, I wonder why his TS/SI clearance related prepublication statement he signed (just like mine) didn't kick in hard? Mine was for 25 years with the date pushed out every time I got read in and then debriefed, even recently, didn't matter if it was DIA, NRO, JSOC mil, DISA or no such agency, all of them got a date reset when I was working for any of them. I got a "lid lock" that's likely going to be in place the rest of my life. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-05-24 04:28 |