Carolyn Stewart; Central Command whistleblower fired for curse words
Carolyn Stewart spoke up about intelligence at CENTCOM evaluations of the war against ISIS being based on cherry-picked intelligence and now, contrary to whistle blower regulations, she’s being canned because some special snowflake heard her say curse words, according to the Daily Beast.
“I went to other action officers to avoid Ms. Stewart,” one witness explained to the judge, in support of the decision to reassign her.
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Stewart’s alleged cursing came at a turning point in the war in Syria and against ISIS. In August 2013, the Obama administration was considering launching strikes in Syria for crossing the self-proclaimed “red line” and deploying chemical weapons. That same month, Stewart supposedly used foul language when a subordinate wrote an incomplete report. A year later, just after the self-proclaimed Islamic State took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, CENTCOM alleged that Stewart cursed at a subordinate for filing an overtime form incorrectly.
OK, everyone in this crowd who qualifies for dismissal under these same conditions, raise your hands. Look around the room.
The Defense Intelligence Agency chief of staff, the third-highest ranking member of that office, testified for hours over why she decided that a few curses could not be tolerated in an office that helped determine which suspected ISIS members should be targeted for death from above….
Yeah, I’d like to hear that testimony. I’d like to hear why the occurrence of two usages of unsavory language can eliminate the protections written into the Code of Federal Regulations and the United States Code.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link
Category: Big Pentagon
Fuckity. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Pffttt, feel better now.
Fucking Aaaaaaa
Too many Special fookin’ Snowflake stories lately.
In my day, we didn’t claim false overtime. What is”overtime”, anyway???
I got paid the same rate whether the work required 8 hours or 20 hours. (there’s a war on)
Wow. What she’d do–take the Frodo’s name in vain?
When I got to boot camp I thought I was already fairly well versed in profanity. Little did I know. To me, profanity is a unique American English art form unto itself and its nuances must be acquired through listening and then practice. Thus when I arrived at boot camp and heard my Drill Sergeant’s opening remarks of “welcome” to us, a new learning experience began. I quickly discovered that the twenty words he just shouted regarding who I was, who he was, what I was worth, what I was suppose to do and what I had failed to do, he could have said in five or six words, minus his articulate profanity. For those guys raised in an environment such that their ears slammed forward upon hearing a word as impolite as “hell”, well, they had the most difficult and humorous of times learning this new language. As I wrote in an earlier post, they were the comedy gold of our platoon and the Drill Sergeant’s favorite targets. They had a hard time filtering out the profanity in order to hear what his point was. Thus their hesitation, therefore, more incoming. Always, you could see by their blank faces and glazed eyes, a Drill Sergeant’s little bit of heaven by the way, that their brain gears were churning at Mach 2 to decipher what had just been said to them. The shouting of it in their faces only multiplied their discombobulation. From there, things only went from bad to worse for them until…the guy three bunks down who couldn’t stop smiling or giggling at all of it became the Drill Sergeant’s next target of opportunity. All said, physically and mentally hard though it was, I gained some of the best laughs in my life from boot camp.
Now you will notice I wrote all of that with only one word of mild profanity. What can I say, “I got skills”, when I want to use them.
By contrast – first day of actual Basic, Drill Sergeant Zambuto chewed us out thoroughly for 45 minutes, discussing our ancestry, intellectual and physical lacks, sexual inadequacies, and general worthlessness in excruciating detail, and uttered not one word of profanity. I am still awestruck 40 years later.
Aye, the worst profanity I every heard my Marine Corps DI’s utter was “friggin” as in “get that friggin thing over there NOW GO-MOVEMOVEMOVE” lol
As I mentioned earlier, upon arriving at boot camp, I thought the United States Navy legally changed our entire company’s name to Mother Fucker.
Don’t ever forget..Cussers’ Lives Matter.
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