The accidental e-mail
A strange thing happened to America's favorite storyteller AKA: White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. He is after all a very busy man. It seems that a Fox News reporter asking about comments from four veterans blasting Kirby for “trying to cover” for the Harris-Biden administration’s botched exit from Afghanistan. Kirby most likely intended to send a message on the inquiry to White House staffers, but inadvertently hit the “reply all” on an email chain that included the Fox News reporter making the inquiry. We all know how devastating it can be to give oneself away to a legitimate reporter.
What did Kirby say in the e-mail?
Here it is:
“Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe.”
There it is by Kirby's own hand. There is no disgruntled, fired employee making the claim. It is Kirby the great explainer telling us all how he really feels about veterans.
"House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said he was unsurprised but appalled by Kirby’s comments.
“Retired Rear Admiral Kirby’s comments are appalling, but sadly not surprising,” McCaul said in a statement. “The Biden-Harris administration has consistently disregarded our veterans, servicemembers, and Gold Star families over their botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
John Kirby slammed over accidental email to reporter that there’s ‘no use in responding’ to veteran concerns over Afghanistan withdrawal (nypost.com)
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Today congress will hear more from the acting secret service director.
Thats it? Is this a joke.?
Nope, the condescending disrespect for vets is sadly real.
So four guys attack Kirby over Afghanistan and he says its just four guys of a certain stripe.
Where is the scandal or even the controversy in this ? Its ridiculous.
True, the former 'president' convicted felon and rapist and traitor disrespects veterans and pisses on their graves especially with that photo-op campaign stop at Arlington.
He cares nothing for the Veterans and their honorable service. He uses them as props.
You want a scandal? Trump appears to be taking advice from a racist fruitcake, Laura Loomer, who flew with him on his plane to the debate, and the next morning went with him to the 9-11 commemoration ceremonies at Ground Zero.
Laura Loomer is a 9-11 "truther". In other words 9-11 conspiracy monger.
They attacked Joe Biden over Afghanistan.
www.rawstory.com /laura-loomer-trump-2669183779/
'She's a lunatic!': GOP insiders call for 'wake up moment' as Trump embraces MAGA 'kook'
Brad Reed 2-2 minutes 9/12/2024
Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who has earned the rare distinction of being a MAGA supporter too extreme for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) , has increasingly become a member of former President Donald Trump's inner circle.
A pair of CNN panelists on Thursday sounded the alarm about the fact that Trump has embraced someone like Loomer, who is notorious for pushing conspiracy theories and racism in her social media posts that are too much for even a one-time QAnon believer like Greene to stomach.
Former George W. Bush spokesman Pete Seat, for one, did not mince any words when host John Berman asked him for his opinion of Loomer.
"She's a lunatic," he said. "I don't think anyone should pay any attention to anything she says, and it is troubling that the Republican nominee... holds her in such high regard. And the reason is because she feeds his worst impulses. That's what he wants: He feeds off of that type of rhetoric and those types of conspiracy theories."
Former Republican strategist Ana Navarro found it remarkable that Trump is even letting Loomer fly on his campaign plane with him.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee report is a 350-page indictment of President Biden’s choices at every point, a portrait of a Commander in Chief “determined to withdraw.” A litany of military advisers counseled that the Afghan government would collapse if the U.S. removed the small complement of 2,500 troops in country.
Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who ran U.S. Central Command at the time, told the committee “he was unequivocal in his advice to the president.” Mr. Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan conducted a review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan—and allowed Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to attend merely “a single NSC deputies meeting,” the report says. Mr. Sullivan comes in for particular criticism.
The Long Shadow of Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal Debacle - WSJ
A recent survey shows that independents aren't buying it.
Really weak sauce.
No one of value gives a damn about Loomer. Another failed deflection attempt.
It's way more than four veterans, probably thousands and thousands who feel this way.
Veterans come in all shapes and sizes, they can swear and spit at each other and disagree with each other over everything from MWRAPS to the Phillies' pitching rotation.
And if threatened they will close ranks in a heartbeat because they are Americans first and foremost.
Disagreement is not disrespect.
trolling for attention is disrespectful.
Trump does. He is of no value then, right?
vets that support a traitor to the republic like trump can fuck off for all I care...
Agreed - that undoes any honorable service as far as I'm concerned. I can think of a few (some alleged) service members who dishonor their service by supporting a traitor.
When did you serve?
and lying about Walz's honorable service
I didn't. in the early 70's I didn't think holding an assault rifle around nixonites held much of a future for me.
Richard Nixon was a liberal Republican who got elected because America was fed up with protests and radicals. I have no idea why someone would be thinking about an assault rifle.
too bad they stopped taking enlistees without a high school diploma, huh?
High school diplomas aren't much of an issue as so many schools hand them out as attendance awards. The biggest challenge (pun)is obesity. 31% of otherwise eligible young adults are obese, a greater number are overweight. As fitness entry stands are lowered, basic training will be for:
The Few, The Fat and The Fatigued.
I did 26 years in the military and currently work on a military installation. I don't see that happening here. Discipline has drastically dropped.
When was he charged, tried and found guilty of being a traitor? Or are you talking through feelings?
So you are really in no place to tell people what vets think.
So the only possible way to know what vets think is to have been one.
What about reading about them?
Or , uh, being married to one, or a friend of one, or a sibling of one? and on and on.
What if i said "the only way to know what atheists think is to be an atheist"
does that make sense to you?
I'll trust somebody who's been there over somebody who read about it in a heartbeat.
They can speak to their experience of being a spouse, friend or child. Not what the vet actually thinks. Anything outside of that is pure guesswork.
So if you talk to someone every day, you can never know what they think? No one believes that.
As for reading, there have been thousands of books written about military events and people, many of them by military people themselves. The point of these books is to understand at least part of what military people think.
Exactly. Only an idiot would think they know what somebody else is really thinking.
That's your opinion.
It may give an idea into what the AUTHOR may have been thinking or thinks.
If you remember Reagan always attended church until he became President. He said he didn't want to endanger the other people in church.
Marx would be proud.
He called religion the "opium of the people".
One of the only things some folks seem to have is false outrage....
Retired Rear Admiral Kirby’s comments are appalling, but sadly not surprising
Yep.
Will Democrats have enough fingers for all those dikes?
Depends on how they spell it ... /S
Liberal minded orthographers won't be going Dutch. They're not known as beneficent hustlers.
The Biden administration shitting on veterans. It's not like it's anything new.
Question of the day:
Will any Republican ever again agree to an ABC debate?
I'm sure they will give it all due consideration if they are mentally agile enough to put an extra 6 minutes to 'good' use.
It may not matter. It seems that many people saw right through it.
It is hard to rig a debate without being obvious.
It has taken 2-3 days for this nonsense to be formulated thanks to Donnie 'winning' by "70, 80, no 90 points".
I get the feeling Donnie is one of NT's readers and he bought into all the Kamala is an idiot tripe posted.
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How appalling
It's her fault that an idiot showed up to debate her? Meh, misogyny has no brakes and neither should it get a break.
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Trump got an extra 5 minutes and STILL fucked it up. Even YOU said Harris won the debate. Deal with it.
Right now, Merick Garland is trying to convince the American public that his corrupt DOJ was honest
The criticism of the department is valid.
Here is example # 1: The current president willfully retained classified documents and wasn't prosecuted because he was cognitively challenged.
So much for an "impartial justice system."
false equivalency. ... and speaking of cognitively challenged, did you see trump blow the debate and then claim he won?
For 3 years they went after political opponents, parents and Catholics. They violated their own protocols and used lawfare to interfere in an election.
I do hope Trump wins in November, and I do hope that Garland will be prosecuted.
I'm Catholic and I dont feel "gone after" at all. Sadly, there are minority elements among Catholics, such as Steve Bannon , that are far far right and likely prone to catch the attention of the FBI because of their statements and activities.
Joe Biden is a Catholic too and I was born a Catholic, but I'm honest:
The FBI has come under scrutiny after a leaked document showed the bureau warning that "radical traditionalist" Catholics pose as an extremist threat.
Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI special agent and federal whistleblower, obtained the document from the bureau's field office in Richmond, Virginia, and published it on the UncoveredDC website.
The document is titled "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
Also included in the memo was a list of Catholic organizations that are defined as hate groups by civil rights advocates the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). These include the Catholic Apologetics International in Pennsylvania and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in New Hampshire.
FBI Under Pressure for Targeting Catholics in Leaked Document - Newsweek
Under questioning by a congressional committee, AG Garland said he was horrified when he heard about it. Nobody would have even known had it not been for a whistleblower.
I'm pretty sure if that happens maga will be way too busy to do anything more than basic self preservation.
How so?
Ignoring key facts is what exposes progressives.
Which 'facts' much less 'key facts' might those be?
you really don't think christo-fascists and associated vermin will get away with taking any constitutional rights away from women or anyone else without severe consequences, do you?
In the case under discussion, the FBI regarded traditional Catholics as an extremist threat.
And the FBI has put stock in what a hate organization called "the Southern Poverty Law Center" says.
Any thoughts on those FACTS?
Garland disagrees:
He said, "It's appalling!"
like I give a fuck about the oldest international terrorist organization based in the vatican. they are centuries behind in their karma payments to the human race...
That sounds so credible / s
Pope Borgia and his clan were considered the first mafia family by Mario Puzo. I'm a historian you could say on the mob and their origins.
Hawley the traitor is appalling!
Lol. What else did Mario Puzo say?
I'm a historian you could say on the mob and their origins.
Very good. What really happened to Virginia Hill?
That is not accurate.
Who was Garland appalled at?
I don't know. He's dead now.
Regarding Virginia Hill - do your own homework for a change
An appalling traitor - Hawley.
he's a cowardly thumper POS, along with his born again, college fraternity sperm bank of a wife.
or read some of his books - you might learn something
I meant to say in that comment but got distracted - Puzo hadn't seen nothing yet - I think he passed before the former 'president' became 'president'. Regarding the first crime family that is being as his 'presidency' was a criminal enterprise and he's a wannabe mob boss/thug
Still waiting
He was last seen with someone named Turley