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1 hour ago, brickhistory said:
Ah well, it's still not Hillary in the White House.
You’re right, I mean with all the Twitter diplomacy, lawyers being hire and fired for possible criminal and civil litigation, hiring and firing of cabinet members, paying of porn starts (but not with campaign funds), military parade planning, who had time to focus on issues with the country? I’m sure the meeting at the DMZ this summer will net him Time Man of the Year honors and that Nobel Peace Prize.
Cue all the classical realists...
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1 hour ago, HarleyQuinn said:
Why don't people speak up? I don't have an E-9 in the squadron. But when our Senior starts acting like a Chief, I damn sure speak up utilizing a respectful tone. No rank should be exempt from a STFU moment, especially when an idea is pure garbage. As a prior, I feel the need to say something because as you gentlemen have noted some E-9s are on Gilligan's Island and there is no Ginger or Mary Ann in sight. When a SNCO is being dismissive (going old school) of great ideas during a meeting, they are suffering from spatial disorientation and you need to talk them back onto their instruments. If your CC will not speak up, please say something, but always do it with respect. Good Chiefs will understand and I want to think some of them still exist.
Why don't people speak up? Because they know they'll be circumvented. Got a Sq/CC you don't like? Simple, talk to your Group Superintendent or even the Command Chief, you're in the Chief's club now. They'll get counseled by their bosses, or worst case you PCS (remember, the Chief's Group controls your assignments and Commanders have no say in Enlisted assignments 69% of the time).
The Good Chiefs got out years ago, minus Enlisted Jesus. The current ones are trying to polish knobs so they can polish their resumes when they leave for the civilian sector. I spent 16 years in the USAF and I have no fucking clue what a Command Chief does other than shake hands, follow the Wing CC around, and get blown by SNCO's, especially First Sergeants, for strats.
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On 4/29/2018 at 2:48 PM, Fuzz said:
So far I like what I see out of Chief Wright, he's seems to be bringing common sense back to the enlisted force which, for all I thought the Officer side was jacked up, it didn't hold a candle to the stupidity on the enlisted side. Wright should just automatically reverse any decision Cody made because there's a 99% it was probably a horrible decision.
The problem with the Enlisted Corps is due to two things:
1. Chiefs think they're the ultimate authority.
2. Competent Officers/Commanders don't rein in the Chiefs from being stupid idea fairies.
Enlisted Jesus has been working overtime trying to help fix the Enlisted Corps and USAF from the two previous E-9's (Roy and Cody) that were before him. He's a good dude.
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3 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:
It's the Guard. From what I've seen, nothing in the Guard is considered "fraternization".
Depends on what the boss things. The Washington ANG (-135) Wing King was forced to retire last year, losing his promotion to Brig Gen, for having an affair with the OG Superintendent.
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5 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
Wasn’t just a social media video. It made USA Today.
If I do something stupid that goes viral and makes a USA Today/CNN/FoxNews article id expect a hammer to drop.
I don’t care to decide what’s appropriate or not.
anyway that’s my opinion and I respect yours and do see where you’re coming from.
It made the media because it was in social media first, this wouldn’t of made the local news 20 years ago. There are bigger things to worry about. If you’re worried about quibbing like this, then I hope you’re correcting every Enlisted person who doesn’t salute and every Officer who goes out of their way to dodge one.
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50 minutes ago, matmacwc said:
What is a chief pilot?
The job given to the ROAD Maj/Lt Col who just wants to fly until retirement.
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On 4/16/2018 at 3:15 PM, Bergman said:
Hey! This was in Nashville!! Nothing to do with the flying units...it was either HQ or 118th (RPAs).
EDIT: just read they are TN HQ people.
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4 hours ago, dream big said:
Wow, lay off the MSNBC bro it’s getting to your head.
Yeah, you should watch Fox News with credible commentary from people like Sean Hannity.
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3 hours ago, pcola said:
Vertigo, just wondering, are you still in uniform or have you completely separated?
Any why are you wondering that?
Only Blue Falcons ask those questions.
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7 hours ago, di1630 said:
I had to turn it off at the hand puppet. I seriously can’t believe these people are in the same USAF as me....actually I can and that’s even worse.
Tennessee is a good ANG unit too. I’d expect this from Alabama.
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22 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:
Odd, I seem to recall Comey saying Hillary should not be charged...
It’s a recommmendation, sorta like how the legal office made recommendations to you as a Commander. So, did the legal office advise you as a Commander, or did they just do whatever they wanted when it came time to charge someone via the UCMJ?
And to be really shitty about it, Comey is a barred attorney by trade. So, if he was doing a legal analysis on the investigative report and offering an opinion, he was qualified to do so.
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6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
How about when investigators find TS/SCI information on an unauthorized , unclassifed, and unprotected email server?
Investigators don’t do the charging.
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On 4/10/2018 at 8:11 AM, TreeA10 said:
If you have any doubt of this, I would suggest you duplicate the home brew server in your house and store some classified information on it. Tip off the FBI and let us know how that works out.
I’ll just send a letter from prison to Trump saying how I got screwed breaking the law like Hilary. Then I’ll get a pardon.
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10 minutes ago, tk1313 said:
Maybe I'm having an off day, but I don't think tac airlifter lost that one...
Referencing a post about politics while someone in said post quotes Article 88, which only applies to Officers, and can also apply to retirees, but doesn’t apply to those who separated and had IRR (i.e. me).
I think you had an off day.
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13 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
Ironic reply, since your “counter argument” to TK’s very detailed post was simply to call POTUS a moron.
Disagree as much as you please, but calling POTUS a “fucking moron” is unsat behavior. More info available here. cheers
I guess you’re assuming I’m in the military, according to my DD-214, I’m not. Thanks for playing.
Very detailed to include a Fox News link. Copy.
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16 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
This is over the top. Chill out.
Don’t go into detail with your counter argument. I’m on pins and needles waiting for your response.
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1 hour ago, tk1313 said:
Strzok compromised: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/12/texts-between-ex-mueller-team-members-emerge-calling-trump-loathsome-human-idiot.html
NOTE: I honestly tried to find a left-leaning site with the story, but they all seem to want to downplay every single negative text about Trump... Obviously Fox is trying to play into the conspiracy theorists, but you're free to interpret the texts as you wish. Bottom line: a bunch of negative texts about Trump and his family (and the idiot American voting public for voting for him), and a lot of positive texts about the Obamas.Comey's leak: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/trumps-unfounded-leak-claim/
1. Comey acknowledged that he had “asked a friend of mine [later identified as Columbia University professor Daniel C. Richman] to share the content of the memo with a reporter.” Comey testified that after the president had tweeted that Comey had better hope there were no “tapes” of their conversation, Comey gave the memo to the Columbia Law School professor to provide to the media so that it “might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”
2. “It was a classified briefing and so I wrote that on a classified device,” Comey said in response to a question on whether all the memos were unclassified. “The one I started typing … in the car — that was a classified laptop that I started working on.”But Comey said the memo he shared with a friend was unclassified. In his written testimony, Comey says of the Feb. 14 memo: “I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership.”
“So you didn’t consider your memo or your sense of that conversation to be a government document?” Sen. Roy Blunt asked in the June 8 Senate hearing. “You considered it to be, somehow, your own personal document that you could share with the media as you wanted to through a friend?”
“Correct,” Comey said. “I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president. As a private citizen, I felt free to share that. I thought it important to get it out.”The Hill noted that when the memos — which Comey said he had turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller — were recently shown to Congress “the FBI claimed all were, in fact, deemed to be government documents.”
It seems as if Comey is trying to make the case that he decides which info is unclassified and which info isn't (don't know the answer to this one)... and that meeting with the President when he was the FBI director was a meeting he had as a "private citizen", and therefore his notes are his property and not government documents (which the FBI seems to disagree with)."A fucking moron"... bit of a stretch for a guy that beat out "the most qualified Presidential candidate in history"... Abrasive on twitter? Absolutely. A fucking moron? Highly doubtful. But what do I know, I'm a fucking deplorable
You’re right, he’s a rich fucking moron. And being rich allows him to be a bigger fucking moron. Of course this is the same guy who wants to sit down and be deposed by the Mueller team. Not normally a wise thing to do when your personal counsel is telling you otherwise, but who gives a shit right? #MAGA
Speaking of other fucking morons, there’s Nunes. Of course he’s such a fucking moron no attorney would ever probably call him for testimony because of being annhilated by the opposing counsel.
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7 hours ago, brickhistory said:
And therein lies the problem.
The senior levels of the FBI appear to have been tainted. Strzok certainly is/was. Mueller is a past Director of the FBI as well as a close friend of fired Director Comey's whose leak of classified self-memos to the NYT triggered the call for the special investigation.
Appearances do matter.
You keep saying saying this, but what proof are you offering that Mueller is “tainted?” Because he was a former director? Then why did Rosenstein (via Congress) appoint him? Strozk was a low level member of the Mueller’s team, not some major decision maker.
And if appearances matter, then who does Sessions actually work for? Is he the Executive branch’s personal counsel and watch dog for things Trump just doesn’t like? Or is he part of the Judicial branch as AG?
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7 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:10 minutes ago, Azimuth said:Ah, the National Review. I’m sure it’s as fair and balanced as Fox News claims towards a guy who’s wife ran as a Democrat in Virginia.
Agreed. But the facts in the article are not in dispute. There FBI recommended one of their own gets fired, Sessions agreed, and obviously so did the president.
Well, the President’s opinion on the issue has no bearing since McCabe’s not an appointed official, like Sessions is. Sessions did it because he wants to keep his job.
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1 minute ago, Lord Ratner said:
Ah, the National Review. I’m sure it’s as fair and balanced as Fox News claims towards a guy who’s wife ran as a Democrat in Virginia.
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9 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:
That was all fine and dandy until Strzok and Page were outed (by a leak, no less) as trying to arrange a secret meeting with a FISA judge, and the FBI felt it was appropriate to hide this fact from Congress through redaction.
Oh, and another professional, Andy McCabe, did such a good job that even the FBI felt he should be fired and lose his pension.
And Comey, that paragon of blind justice, looks worse by the day with his scheming and leaking and inconsistency.
They're making it pretty damn hard to trust the "professional career lawmen."https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-firing-explained.html
Who exactly in the FBI thought McCabe should be fired?
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9 hours ago, brickhistory said:
I am unfamiliar with the American judicial system that investigates someone until they find something.
It’s called the military “justice” system led by the retards known as OSI and dipshit Commanders who have the investigative skills of Barney Fife.
Appearances do matter. You have a Republican (Comey) who was allegedly fired by a Republican (Trump) for not backing off investigating a Republican (Flynn) via the Russian investigation. Then, a Republican (Rosenstein) appointed a Republican (Mueller) to form a special counsel to investigate the firing and Russian involvement with the 2016 Presidential election. And since he’s charged Republican’s (Flynn, Manafort, and Gates) with crimes.
Dont really know where ideologies are bent? As stated above Rosenstein has full authority and oversight over Mueller. I guess we’ll see if Trump gets annoyed enough to have Sessions (who’s recused, right?) either fire Mueller himself, which will surely bring an obstruction charge directly to Trump, or force Sessions to force Rosenstein to fire Mueller.
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11 hours ago, tk1313 said:
I'm not a lawyer or in any job that deals with law enforcement... But let's say I get pulled over for speeding, then the officer gets a warrant to search my car based on the initial crime of speeding. He finds 10 kilos of coke hidden under the back seat (I'm a smart drug dealer, don't insult me by assuming I'd leave drugs in plain view of the officer), but later in court it's discovered that I was not actually speeding and the officer pulled me over because he felt like it and happened to get lucky with the coke bust... Weren't my 4th amendment rights violated?
If I'm being investigated for murder, and lie to the investigators about who I met with on the day the crime was committed, but it turns out I didn't commit murder and the person who said that I was the one who did was mistaken and they found the actual killer... Would I still be charged with misleading investigators? (again, honest question)
I never made an argument for letting the charge of lying slide... Just stated that I'm underwhelmed with the charges stemming from such a high profile investigation.
Finally, my point is that it seems like there is a big push to put the investigation before the crime and without probable cause. The assumption of guilt is coming before the investigation. My understanding of the law of the US is that we have a presumption of innocence...
I highly doubt a cop, under oath in court, is going to say “yeah I pulled him over just cause.” If you believe that, then you’ve never been in court.
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You have to get a liquor license to drink in your own home. One signed by your boss and company. Pass.