Too little, too late
Uh-oh, they noticed;
Yes, Chris, there is a leak. In fact it’s more like a wide-open floodgate. There are people in IVAW that aren’t happy with the direction you’re taking the organization. In fact, I noticed that half of the members at the Houston Chapter have had their profiles removed. The most prominent being Brandon Neely who was pretty popular with the media back in February when I wrote about him. In fact I found his testimony to be fairly forthright, a bit overstated and dramatic, but truthful nonetheless – that’s more than I can say about new board members Buonomo and Chiroux.
I noticed another member is missing a profile, too – another actual veteran of the war against terror. One I’d never written about because he’d behaved himself.
Not only is information leaking out of IVAW, it’s bleeding membership.
And, oh, don’t flatter yourself – this isn’t a military counterintelligence operation against IVAW – I’m just a guy sitting in my La-Z-Boy with a couple of laptops.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Phony soldiers
Jonn, You forgot to mention the pajamas!
That, and the information they’re probably bitchin’ about is openly available to you under FOIA. So let ’em bitch. Shall I call a wahhambulance? It’s not like you publish private information, such as SSNs.
I’m an infantryman – I don’t own pajamas.
I can see it now in the IVAW HQ.
“They have Spy tech”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py08dctKZs0
First one in the video.
“I’m an infantryman – I don’t own pajamas.”
Just great. Will someone please get me some tequilla. I have a horrific mental image I need to get rid of ASAP.
Yeah, I’m with B-22; too much information, Jonn!
As for the folks at IVAW; well, let them have their paranoid delusions about this. Although I think you’re pretty sleuthy, Jonn, even I know that you aren’t data mining their website. The reason is simple; why would you want to?
A couple of laptops???? Elitist! 🙂
What IVAW doesn’t know is that they have more members than they think that are going to show those people for what they are. Former members as well. While I am not going to “go after” IVAW, I am not bothered when someone does. They pissed off a lot of real Vets.
I have a serious problem with government spying on peaceful organizations. If only IVAW had repudiated Webb’s calls for violence and sabotage among American troops, then IVAW might elicit some sympathy from rational people. Right now they sound silly: “We refuse to repudiate violence, but we still don’t think we should be watched by the government.”
I am concerned that their only concern is for “the leak” and not that they have a serious legal issue at hand. They dont’ seem to care that all these members are leaving… they are under the delusion that more will come. Are they in for a surprise…
Will someone please get me some tequilla. I have a horrific mental image I need to get rid of ASAP.
Unless you’re going to pour it in your ear and light it, you’re going to just have to live with that image, troop.
When I was at their convention I got to sit in on a meeting where they were discussing the money they were getting from Cuba. Apparently, they are filtering it through a non-profit in Miami.
Casey, what were you talking about real vets for? Weren’t you a FOBbit?
Jonn wrote: I thought you said they got their money from the Bavarian Illuminati. Nice try starting rumors, but we only support substantiated information here. FOBbits carry more weight here than utter cowards.
You know, when Art Bell went off the air it left a hole in my life. Then I found you guys. I think you are great on a lot of levels. You provide entertainment for people who know better and a distraction from inbreeding for people who don’t. You also provide an accepting community for Porter and his ilk.
Keep on keeping on!
They just don`t get it do they.
Do they realy think that all of there members agree with them?
They would never come up with the bright idea that for the last few years a number of people have joined there cry baby club for no other reason than to leak info to the rest of the true vets. WAKE UP DUDE!
Defector: How many FOBits have been wounded or killed from attacks? Not everyone wounded or killed has been outside the wire.