{"id":33010,"date":"2012-11-27T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33010"},"modified":"2012-11-27T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:20:44","slug":"robert-anthony-nolan-zombie-phony-seal-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33010","title":{"rendered":"Robert Anthony Nolan; Zombie phony SEAL rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg and TSO send us <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com.nyud.net\/2012\/11\/alleged-seal-poseur-again-accused-lying-about-service\">links to an article<\/a> about Robert Anthony Nolan who was arrested and sentenced back in 2002 for lying to federal investigators about being a SEAL. He promised that he was going to behave himself, but apparently he can&#8217;t. The siren&#8217;s song of the phony SEAL is just too hard to resist, I suppose;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nolan, 49, told bewitching tales of his SEAL exploits, [Curt] Ruggles said. &#8220;It was a real elaborate story &#8211; very, very believable. I&#8217;m not a gullible guy, but he nailed me good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wove a very intricate web, with a lot of character development. It was like a novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nolan often spoke of friends in high places, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whom he referred to as a surrogate father, Ruggles said.<\/p>\n<p>Another name he dropped repeatedly, Ruggles said, was that of retired Rear Adm. Tom Steffens, a former SEAL in Virginia Beach who spent decades in leadership positions in naval special operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s a whole lot easier to make shit up than to actually go through all of the bullshit to actually be a SEAL. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After learning of Ruggles&#8217; accusation, Nolan took a polygraph exam that indicated he was telling the truth when he denied posing as a SEAL. The polygraph examiner, David Goldberg, said he is convinced of Nolan&#8217;s veracity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are articles about Nolan&#8217;s lies when he was arrested from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socnet.com\/showthread.php?t=14084\">SOCNET<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/587370\/posts\">Free Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nolan, once named Sailor of the Year on the carrier America, received a less-than-honorable discharge from the Navy in June 1992 after going AWOL for 53 days, court records said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, he was never a SEAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg and TSO send us links to an article about Robert Anthony Nolan who was arrested and sentenced back in 2002 for lying to federal investigators about being a SEAL. He promised that he was going to behave himself, but apparently he can&#8217;t. The siren&#8217;s song of the phony SEAL is just too hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8Aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}