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2018-11-29 Southeast Asia
Judicial Watch Sues Defense Department for Records on POWs and MIAs in Vietnam
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-29 14:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Why is the Pentagon stonewalling our attempts to obtain information that is clearly in the public interest?

Because they know it was incomplete and slapdash. They just wanted to end the war and walk away.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-11-29 14:26||   2018-11-29 14:26|| Front Page Top

#2 You can't talk about the POW/MIA thing without going blindfolded into a minefield. It's a holy cause to some (rightly) a garden industry to others (nasty) But never ever talk about group number two or you are lower than the bottom of a latrine for even mentioning it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-11-29 14:36||   2018-11-29 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Because they know it was incomplete and slapdash. They just wanted to end the war and walk away.

When the small POW/MIA Pentagon investigation team began pulling together documented evidence of POWs from WWII and Korea sightings behind the 'Iron Curtain' the commission was disbanded. BTW, the NDA's are still active. I doubt the Judicial Watch initiative gains much altitude.

Here's an old story about how things, they just get quashed.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-29 14:38||   2018-11-29 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Amen and amen to numma 2 above.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-29 14:39||   2018-11-29 14:39|| Front Page Top

#5 It's like Gulf War Syndrome. After Agent Orange, you'd think they'd know better. Instead the initial report was to be done by a team organized under TDY (temporary duty), which has to be done in 179 days. Any one who's staffed anything that had to clear the Pentagon, knows that with just start up times in the front end for the group and the staffing (mother may I without upsetting someone) time at the end to clear publication, that allowed somewhere around 30 to 45 days to do actual research. The whole mess was DOA at the start. Sure enough, they had to execute a 'do over'. CYAWP
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-11-29 15:27||   2018-11-29 15:27|| Front Page Top

#6 The AFG and Iraq 'Burn Pits' being the latest smoking twist. Excuse the nostril burning pun.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-29 15:30||   2018-11-29 15:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I watched the Senate Select Committee hearings on the issue many years ago. What the witnesses said was....nuts. A "rocking K" stamped out in a rice field, an authenticator for downed flight crews. In Laos. DoD guy said some local kid was trying to impress his girlfriend. At the time, Kerry was okay on this. Looked as if he was going to come over the table at the guy. Who, to give him credit, kept a straight face. One after another, worse than the last.
Haney, of Delta Force, said they rucked up twice for POW raids into Laos only to find they'd been burned. He didn't say who...but between the lines might have been Kissinger.
Worse and worse.
Friend of mine wondered how Sly Stallone and Chuck Norris knew all this stuff twenty years before.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-11-29 16:21||   2018-11-29 16:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Very informative, did not know that back story. Thank you Besoeker.

You learn more here by accident than in any pubic university.

Hoot.
Posted by Woodrow 2018-11-29 18:43||   2018-11-29 18:43|| Front Page Top

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