more on Sometimes, even the DoD boggles my mind!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Jim O'Donnell" <cassiodorus () gmail com>
Date: January 8, 2007 6:08:32 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Sometimes, even the DoD boggles my mind!

Dave, I think this refers to:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/14/ldt.01.html

Dobbs's transcripts seem all to be on line.  The problem is that this
wasn't Pace, the actual chair of JCS, but a retired general named
Grange, whom Dobbs (not my fave) asked to imagine himself in the role
of chair of JCS.

Jim O'Donnell

On 1/8/07, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
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>
> From: Eric Weisberg <weisberg1 () texoma net>
> Date: January 8, 2007 5:13:05 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>, ip () v2 listbox com
> Subject: Sometimes, even the DoD boggles my mind!
>
> for ip
>
> On September 13, I heard part of Lou Dobbs' interview with Peter
> Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  I tried to get a
> copy
> from CNN, to no avail.  Indeed, I got no response!  On October 18,
> 2006, I filed two FOIA requests with the Dept. of
> Defense--
> one for the transcript and a second for "...all documents applying or
> relating to Lou Dobbs' interview of Peter Pace,
> Chairman of the JCS,
> ...including its publication or the terms and conditions of such
> interview."   I finally got a reply on January 8, 2007,
> that "no records
> responsive to either request were found."  Sure.  Now, I know that I
> can't trust the results of any FOIA request.  These
> people are
> above the law!  They are in the "reality making" business, rather
> than "defense" or 'governance."
>
> BTW, Pace adamantly insisted that we must get out of Iraq,
> immediately, or our military and economy will collapse.  He
> said
> that we do not have the money, equipment, nor manpower to stay much
> longer without very dire consequences on all fronts.
> Dobbs showed him a page from some military manual discussing the
> French experience getting
> bogged down in Spain and exhausting its military, emptying its
> treasury, and losing its
> empire. Pace said there were differences with our situation, but that
> we were in danger of the same result.
>
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