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| Biden is the lawless President that liberals accused Trump of being |
Now certainly companies can decide to enforce their own mandate on employees as a condition of employment. Without a Federal mandate or something in place, however, they would be responsible for any legal damages they might incur if someone refuses and decides to take the matter up on court. While I am no legal soothsayer, we already know of examples where unions and others have taken action against companies that have demanded a vaccine as a condition of employment. I strongly suspect that you would see hundreds, if not thousands of such lawsuits. Companies may be forced by financial consideration to not enact a mandate, knowing it could cost them money in litigation and possible settlements. Not to mention, they would likely be responsible for unemployment if firing them over a medical decision was their only cause.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is basically ignoring the fact that they have had two court decisions go against them on this, and that the courts are implying that there is a pretty good chance that the Administration will ultimately lose the case. They seem to believe that they are simply above the courts and above the law. While this was the imaginitory possibility that liberals always suggested Trump "would do" if put in the position, it is actually what Biden "is" doing in real life. In other words, while liberals got all upset over their own hypothetical lawlessness that they believe Trump was capable of, they seem awful silent regarding what Biden actually "is" doing.
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Sad how Lil Schitty is so against beating Covid because he thinks it helps the GOP cause!!! That is true to an extent since the GOP leads the way in not taking the shot and losing members from death!!!! A brilliant policy of flying up ones own ass to remain in power!!!!!!
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS
U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians
3:11 pm EST
“In the last days of the battle against the Islamic State in Syria, when members of the once-fierce caliphate were cornered in a dirt field next to a town called Baghuz, a U.S. military drone circled high overhead, hunting for military targets. But it saw only a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank.
“Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast. As the smoke cleared, a few people stumbled away in search of cover. Then a jet tracking them dropped one 2,000-pound bomb, then another, killing most of the survivors.
Steve Guest
Sen. Ted Cruz in September, 5th Circuit in November:
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1459549775557275651
Cruz nailed it and was mentioned in the decision !!!
Klain is a fucking political hack
Banana Republic
Who was President when that happened and doesn't whoever it was bear responsibility for it?
And why has it been hidden? And who ordered it hidden?
TAEGAN GODDARD REPORTS
https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/13/u-s-hid-an-airstrike-that-killed-dozens-of-civilians/
odd it is exactly the same
but it is still off-topic spam
at the start of a thread
must be desperate times for the POS "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Trump was President January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
Not off topic:
You have been blaming Biden for the comparitively few citizens including children killed recently by accident in Afghanistan.
Why haven't you been blaming Trump for what happened in Syria.
And why has it been kept hidden until now?
And who ordered it kept hidden?
Democracy dies in darkness.
Senator Melissa Melendez
https://twitter.com/senatormelendez/status/1459345350867574784?t=7-LyYqgRq4dOpnQxXne0Pg&s=19
PICTURE AND VIDEO:
Shared with me by a constituent:
Hundreds of shoes & hand written notes left by students in Corona/Norco Unified School District. The shoes & notes represent the amount of children that will exit the district if the mandate becomes a requirement to attend public school
And the parent that served the board member their recall notice, was AMAZING!!! Way to go parents of CNUSD!
watch with above link
comparatively
You have been blaming Biden for the comparatively few citizens including children killed recently by accident in Afghanistan.
Why haven't you been blaming Trump for what happened in Syria?
And why has it been kept hidden until now?
And who ordered it kept hidden?
Democracy dies in darkness.
Fuck off Boswell
What a POS "pastor"
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Thomas Massie
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1458614578808512514
Which of these are just conspiracy theories?
CDC changed def. of vaccination to cover Pfizer’s shots.
Former FDA director is on the board of Pfizer.
Vaccinated are spreading COVID to vaccinated.
RWJ has $2 billion of J&J and funds http://fact-check.org vaccine factchecking.
All true
and making billions for big pharma
* btw boswell whatever the latest posting is on political_lire is not something relevant here
nor a string of them
what an asshole
How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria
The military never conducted an independent investigation into a 2019 bombing on the last bastion of the Islamic State, despite concerns about a secretive commando force.
Nov. 13, 2021
Updated 1:33 p.m. ET
In the last days of the battle against the Islamic State in Syria, when members of the once-fierce caliphate were cornered in a dirt field next to a town called Baghuz, a U.S. military drone circled high overhead, hunting for military targets. But it saw only a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank.
Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast. As the smoke cleared, a few people stumbled away in search of cover. Then a jet tracking them dropped one 2,000-pound bomb, then another, killing most of the survivors.
It was March 18, 2019. At the U.S. military’s busy Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, uniformed personnel watching the live drone footage looked on in stunned disbelief, according to one officer who was there.
“Who dropped that?” a confused analyst typed on a secure chat system being used by those monitoring the drone, two people who reviewed the chat log recalled. Another responded, “We just dropped on 50 women and children.”
An initial battle damage assessment quickly found that the number of dead was actually about 70.
The Baghuz strike was one of the largest civilian casualty incidents of the war against the Islamic State, but it has never been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. military. The details, reported here for the first time, show that the death toll was almost immediately apparent to military officials. A legal officer flagged the strike as a possible war crime that required an investigation. But at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike. The death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized and classified. United States-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified.
The Defense Department’s independent inspector general began an inquiry, but the report containing its findings was stalled and stripped of any mention of the strike.
“Leadership just seemed so set on burying this. No one wanted anything to do with it,” said Gene Tate, an evaluator who worked on the case for the inspector general’s office and agreed to discuss the aspects that were not classified. “It makes you lose faith in the system when people are trying to do what’s right but no one in positions of leadership wants to hear it.”
Mr. Tate, a former Navy officer who had worked for years as a civilian analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Center before moving to the inspector general’s office, said he criticized the lack of action and was eventually forced out of his job.
The details of the strikes were pieced together by The New York Times over months from confidential documents and descriptions of classified reports, as well as interviews with personnel directly involved, and officials with top secret security clearances who discussed the incident on the condition that they not be named.
Prizes. @EricSchmittNYT
Alexander Higgins
VIDEO:
🚨Coerced flight attendant who took forced injection under duress suing airline after being hospitalized with adverse effects and ongoing pain/health issues post-jab.
thanks Biden
Why is the CDC hiding these types of reactions and permanent damage
on an experimental vaccine ?
Cruz nailed it and was mentioned in the decision !!!
CRUZ IS A FATASSED BIGOT!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS
Shem Horne
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1459293771250688003
Does anyone else think that WAPO may be deleting tweets and removing large parts of their previous articles from the internet to cover up how complicit they were in spreading false information about Russian Collusion rather than trying to correct the record?
The Times investigation found that the bombing had been called in by a classified American special operations unit, Task Force 9, which was in charge of ground operations in Syria. The task force operated in such secrecy that at times it did not inform even its own military partners of its actions. In the case of the Baghuz bombing, the American Air Force command in Qatar had no idea the strike was coming, an officer who served at the command center said.
In the minutes after the strike, an alarmed Air Force intelligence officer in the operations center called over an Air Force lawyer in charge of determining the legality of strikes. The lawyer ordered the F-15E squadron and the drone crew to preserve all video and other evidence, according to documents obtained by The Times. He went upstairs and reported the strike to his chain of command, saying it was a possible violation of the law of armed conflict — a war crime — and regulations required a thorough, independent investigation.
But a thorough, independent investigation never happened.
This week, after The New York Times sent its findings to U.S. Central Command, which oversaw the air war in Syria, the command acknowledged the strikes for the first time, saying 80 people were killed but the airstrikes were justified. It said the bombs killed 16 fighters and four civilians. As for the other 60 people killed, the statement said it was not clear that they were civilians, in part because women and children in the Islamic State sometimes took up arms.
“We abhor the loss of innocent life and take all possible measures to prevent them,” Capt. Bill Urban, the chief spokesman for the command, said in the statement. “In this case, we self-reported and investigated the strike according to our own evidence and take full responsibility for the unintended loss of life.”
The only assessment done immediately after the strike was performed by the same ground unit that ordered the strike. It determined that the bombing was lawful because it killed only a small number of civilians while targeting Islamic State fighters in an attempt to protect coalition forces, the command said. Therefore no formal war crime notification, criminal investigation or disciplinary action was warranted, it said, adding that the other deaths were accidental.
But the Air Force lawyer, Lt. Col. Dean W. Korsak, believed he had witnessed possible war crimes and repeatedly pressed his leadership and Air Force criminal investigators to act. When they did not, he alerted the Defense Department’s independent inspector general. Two years after the strike, seeing no evidence that the watchdog agency was taking action, Colonel Korsak emailed the Senate Armed Services Committee, telling its staff that he had top secret material to discuss and adding, “I’m putting myself at great risk of military retaliation for sending this.”
Josh Mandel
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/berniemoreno/status/1459341008370606081
Why do working people have to get a vaccine but welfare people don’t?
Stop all mandates now!
Great point
“Senior ranking U.S. military officials intentionally and systematically circumvented the deliberate strike process,” he wrote in the email, which was obtained by The Times. Much of the material was classified and would need to be discussed through secure communications, he said. He wrote that a unit had intentionally entered false strike log entries, “clearly seeking to cover up the incidents.” Calling the classified death toll “shockingly high,” he said the military did not follow its own requirements to report and investigate the strike.
There was a good chance, he wrote, that “the highest levels of government remained unaware of what was happening on the ground.”
Colonel Korsak did not respond to requests for comment.
Undercounted Tolls
The United States portrayed the air war against the Islamic State as the most precise and humane bombing campaign in its history. The military said every report of civilian casualties was investigated and the findings reported publicly, creating what the military called a model of accountability.
But the strikes on Baghuz tell a different story.
The details suggest that while the military put strict rules in place to protect civilians, the Special Operations task force repeatedly used other rules to skirt them. The military teams counting casualties rarely had the time, resources or incentive to do accurate work. And troops rarely faced repercussions when they caused civilian deaths.
Even in the extraordinary case of Baghuz — which would rank third on the military’s worst civilian casualty events in Syria if 64 civilian deaths were acknowledged — regulations for reporting and investigating the potential crime were not followed, and no one was held accountable.
The military recently admitted that a botched strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August killed 10 civilians, including seven children. But that kind of public reckoning is unusual, observers say. More often, civilian deaths are undercounted even in classified reports. Nearly 1,000 strikes hit targets in Syria and Iraq in 2019, using 4,729 bombs and missiles. The official military tally of civilian dead for that entire year is only 22, and the strikes from March 18 are nowhere on the list.
WHY?
Brandon and FDR are Both Socialist.
ROGER said they are having the Same kind of Presidency.
Roger got one right, they are the Same, failure and Courts overturning their unconstitutional policies.
THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE goes on and on and on about this.
Why was this horrible event, perhaps even a war crime, kept hidden during Donald Trump's watch?
Why?
And doesn't the buck stop with him?
Jonathan Bronitsky
https://twitter.com/jbronitsky/status/1459329507819728907
🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨
Dr. Scott Atlas unloads on Fauci, Birx, Redfield in forthcoming memoir, "A Plague Upon Our House"––says he was "disgusted" by their dismissal of scientific data presented to them during the Trump administration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/i-was-disgusted-dr-scott-atlas-unloads-on-doctors-fauci-birx-redfield-in-his-forthcoming-memoir
Former White House Coronavirus Response team member Dr. Scott Atlas blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and former CDC Director Robert Redfield in a new book saying that he was "disgusted" by their dismissal of scientific data he presented to them during the Trump administration.
In the book, "A Plague Upon Our House" which Fox News Digital obtained an advance copy of, Atlas says he presented data and studies showing that schools should be reopened and that children are not significant spreaders of the coronavirus but was virtually ignored by Fauci and others on the team.
"As I finished, there was silence," Atlas wrote. "No one offered any contrary data. No one spoke of scientific studies. No one even mentioned the discredited Korea study. Zero comments from Dr. Birx. Nothing from Dr. Fauci. And as always, not a single mention by Birx or Fauci about the serious harms of school closures. In my mind, this was bizarre. Why was I the only one in the room with detailed knowledge of the literature? Why was I the only one considering the data on such an important topic with a critical eye? Were the others simply accepting bottom lines and conclusions, without any analytical evaluation? Weren’t they supposed to be expert medical scientists, too? I waited."
Atlas said that Birx told him his opinion was "out of the mainstream" and said he was part of a "fringe" group of people who believed schools should be opened.
"Meanwhile she insisted that all experts agreed with her," Atlas wrote. "I shook my head, thinking of some of the world-class epidemiologists who agreed with me—John Ioannidis and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, Carl Heneghan and Sunetra Gupta of Oxford—and wondered if she or Fauci had ever read a single publication by them."
Atlas wrote that he "explained with numbers" that children did not have a significant risk of illness or death from the virus and cited statistics from New York City, California, and elsewhere documenting that while also noting data from Sweden showing zero deaths despite schools not closing and also not imposing mask mandates.
"The icing on the cake was the evidence that almost all coronavirus transmission to children comes from adults, not the other way around," Atlas wrote. "That was not a predicate for opening schools, given the massive harms to kids if they were closed. But that evidence was already shown by contact tracing and other studies in Iceland, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Opened schools and childcare centers did not show significant dangers to children, adults, or teachers…"They found zero instances of a child passing the infection to an adult."
Atlas says Redfield responded to the data by saying "the jury is still out."
Former FDA director is on the board of Pfizer.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! TYPICAL FUCKED UP....JEALOUS OF OTHERS SUCCESS!!!!!!!!
Hey "pastor"
Biden is president.
This came out now
I didn't read all your off-topic shit but Biden should fire those top brass in the military if you are right
Miley and Austin have fucked up enough already and should be gone
Nearly 90 retired generals and admirals call for heads to roll after disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/nearly-90-retired-generals-and-admirals-call-for-austin-and-miley-to-resign/
Why are you so scared about Biden's unlawful handling of mandates ?
and why are you Goddard's bitch ?
Roger Posted this, Denny is confused.
"Taking into account all major tax provisions, roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022" Roger posted
anonymous said...
Former FDA director is on the board of Pfizer.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! TYPICAL FUCKED UP....JEALOUS OF OTHERS SUCCESS!!!!!!!!
Hey the other BUTT BUDDY popped up !!!
nope, he's all yours
or you're all his
ROFLMFAO !!!
REV., your take on this?
The 14.5% increase in Part B premiums will take monthly payments for those in the lowest income bracket from $148.50 a month this year to $170.10 in 2022" cite: CNN.
Good night Brandon and the donk
They are going to get destroyed
That's grabbing the third rail with both hands"
Roger, is this rise in Insurance costs "Transatory" or permanent?
🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨
Dr. Scott Atlas unloads on Fauci,
Exclusive.....SCOTT ATLAS A WORTHLESS LYING PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!!!! The same asshole that promoted infecting everyone to achieve herd immunity BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
btw "pastor" what action did Biden take on that civilian drone strike ?
Looks like strike 3 to me
Why is Biden doddering?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! INCOMING !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
good one VERY lo iq
Roger Posted this, Denny is confused.
Confused goat fucker....he who lives in mommy's root cellar.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The asshole who thought Macon was in floriduh and lectured me on what I witnessed?????? That goat fucker!!!!!! BTW...any costs associated with others estimating what the tax impact will be is a fool.....just like you !!!!! It is a moving target and its effect will not be known until implemented!!!!!!
HERE IS HOW THAT LONG, LONG, LONG NYT ARTICLE ENDS:
In the months that followed in 2020, the team finished its report on broader issues in the civilian casualty reporting process, but as it went through the editing and approval process, which included comments from Central Command, all mentions of the Baghuz strike were cut.
Mr. Tate became increasingly pointed in criticizing the leadership of the inspector general’s office. In October 2020, he said he was forced out of his position and escorted from the building by security.
[WHO ORDERED THAT?]
The inspector general report on civilian casualties was formally released this spring to select members of Congress and the military with the proper security clearances. The office refused to release a public copy or discuss the classified findings, but acknowledged it did not mention Baghuz.
A spokeswoman for the inspector general’s office disputed Mr. Tate’s account. She said that it alerted the proper authorities at Central Command shortly after receiving the first hotline complaint in 2019. The spokeswoman said the office also notified criminal investigators about the strike in October 2020, 14 months after receiving the hotline call — around the time that Mr. Tate was terminated.
A spokeswoman for the office said a new evaluation of Special Operations Command’s adherence to the law of war was expected be completed this month, and that it would include the Baghuz strike. That report will also be classified.
After leaving the office, Mr. Tate refused to give up. He contacted the Senate Armed Services Committee in May and sent a 10-page letter describing the strike and what he viewed as a “systematic failure” on civilian casualty reporting. The committee then contacted Colonel Korsak, who replied with a detailed email.
When asked by The Times about the March 2019 strike, Chip Unruh, a spokesman for Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declined to comment on details of the incident, about which the Central Command has briefed the committee.
He did, however, provide a broader assessment:
“When tragic errors occur on the battlefield, the United States, as the leader of the free world, has an obligation to be transparent, take responsibility, and do everything we can to learn from and prevent future mistakes.”
Mr. Tate waited for months for the committee to call back and give him an indication that it was actively looking at the case. This week, he said with a sigh that he was still waiting.
Azmat Khan, Christoph Koettl and Haley Willis contributed reporting. Drew Jordan contributed production.
The Uncounted
Dave Philipps is a national correspondent covering the military and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is “Alpha, Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs.” @David_Philipps • Facebook
Eric Schmitt is a senior writer who has traveled the world covering terrorism and national security. He was also the Pentagon correspondent. A member of the Times staff since 1983, he has shared three Pulitzer Prizes. @EricSchmittNYT
KansasDemocrat said...
REV., your take on this?
The 14.5% increase in Part B premiums will take monthly payments for those in the lowest income bracket from $148.50 a month this year to $170.10 in 2022" cite: CNN.
Good night Brandon and the donk
They are going to get destroyed
That's grabbing the third rail with both hands"
Roger, is this rise in Insurance costs "Transatory" or permanent?
butt buddy 1 will only answer with a plagiarism from Goddard
butt buddy 2 will only answer with BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
roger will answer with a copied Washington Post or NYT piece or perhaps Reich
That stinks to high heaven, and somebody must be held accountable.
Trump was President.
It was on his watch.
* brilliant
A Report Buried
Unwilling to let the issue drop, Colonel Korsak filed a hotline complaint with the inspector general’s office in August 2019.
A four-person team in the office was already looking into shortcomings in the civilian casualty reporting processes in Syria and quickly set up an interview in a secure setting. After reviewing the high-definition footage and interviewing Colonel Korsak, the team, which included Mr. Tate, told superiors in the inspector general’s office that the allegation of a war crime was “extremely credible.”
“When he came to us, he wanted to make it very clear he had tried everything else first,” Mr. Tate said. “He felt that the I.G. hotline was the only option remaining.”
But like the Air Force lawyer’s earlier effort, Mr. Tate’s team soon hit roadblocks. Central Command was slow to turn over evidence, he said. Mr. Tate obtained video from several drones flying over Baghuz that day, but could not locate the footage from the task force drone that called in the strike.
The inspector general’s office received a second complaint on the hotline about the strike, a spokeswoman said, but Mr. Tate said his team was never told.
Mr. Tate studied the task force’s casualty report, but it didn’t match what he saw on video. The civilian deaths stated in the report were “an impossibly small number,” he said.
The final section of the casualty report was reserved for the legal opinion. In one version of the report that Mr. Tate was sent by the staff at Operation Inherent Resolve, the Baghdad-based military command overseeing operations in Iraq and Syria, a task force lawyer and an operations officer wrote that a violation of the law of armed conflict may have taken place. In another copy that came from Central Command, he said, that opinion had been removed.
Mr. Tate could find no evidence that the Joint Chiefs, the defense secretary or criminal investigators had been alerted, as required.
Within days of interviewing Colonel Korsak, Mr. Tate’s team took their findings to supervisors and told them the office was required to alert those officials and criminal investigation agencies. Mr. Tate said his supervisors took no action. The team pressed leaders numerous times over the next several months, and in January 2020, Mr. Tate’s team leader drafted a memo that would formally alert authorities. It only needed to be signed by the deputy inspector general overseeing the team. Mr. Tate said the supervisor did not sign it.
F'ing Daddy, you nailed them.
Decent blogger of truth said...
That stinks to high heaven, and somebody must be held accountable.
And those responsible now report to Biden
the buck stops there
Fire Miley and Austin
Trump is no longer in office to hold them accountable
not brain science
and it shouldn't be political science
How about Biden's illegal mandates though ?
"Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly came out against President Biden’s vaccine mandate as one that is not the "most effective" or "correct" for her state.
"Yesterday, I reviewed the new vaccine mandate from the Biden Administration. While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a goal I share, I don’t believe this directive is the correct, or the most effective, solution for Kansas," she said in a statement released Friday. "
KansasDemocrat said...
"Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly came out against President Biden’s vaccine mandate as one that is not the "most effective" or "correct" for her state.
"Yesterday, I reviewed the new vaccine mandate from the Biden Administration. While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a goal I share, I don’t believe this directive is the correct, or the most effective, solution for Kansas," she said in a statement released Friday. "
So now bipartisan opposition
good
FJB
Woke up to a hard freeze at 26 °F.
House was 67 °F , so I stoked the wood burning Carbon Neutral Furnace and warmed it up to the normal 72°.
Biden policies have home heating bills skyrocketing .
Yep
"So now bipartisan opposition
good
FJB"
When something like this happened when Sleepy Joe Biden is The President, S. Scott Johnson Powerline went crazy.
But I am 100% sure that he won't call Trump demented...
In the last days of the battle against the Islamic State in Syria, when members of the once-fierce caliphate were cornered in a dirt field next to a town called Baghuz, a U.S. military drone circled high overhead, hunting for military targets. But it saw only a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank.
Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast. As the smoke cleared, a few people stumbled away in search of cover. Then a jet tracking them dropped one 2,000-pound bomb, then another, killing most of the survivors.
It was March 18, 2019. At the U.S. military’s busy Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, uniformed personnel watching the live drone footage looked on in stunned disbelief, according to one officer who was there.
“Who dropped that?” a confused analyst typed on a secure chat system being used by those monitoring the drone, two people who reviewed the chat log recalled. Another responded, “We just dropped on 50 women and children.”
An initial battle damage assessment quickly found that the number of dead was actually about 70.
The Baghuz strike was one of the largest civilian casualty incidents of the war against the Islamic State, but it has never been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. military. The details, reported here for the first time, show that the death toll was almost immediately apparent to military officials. A legal officer flagged the strike as a possible war crime that required an investigation. But at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike. The death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized and classified. United States-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified.
The Defense Department’s independent inspector general began an inquiry, but the report containing its findings was stalled and stripped of any mention of the strike.
Stalled by Trump? Probably one of his loyalists...
NPR is Woke
"Inflation is surging and people are hopping mad
November 13, 2021"
Welcome to the Brandon shit show.
continued
...Mr. Tate said the supervisor did not sign it.
In the months that followed in 2020, the team finished its report on broader issues in the civilian casualty reporting process, but as it went through the editing and approval process, which included comments from Central Command, all mentions of the Baghuz strike were cut.
Mr. Tate became increasingly pointed in criticizing the leadership of the inspector general’s office. In October 2020, he said he was forced out of his position and escorted from the building by security.
[WHO ORDERED THAT?]
The inspector general report on civilian casualties was formally released this spring to select members of Congress and the military with the proper security clearances. The office refused to release a public copy or discuss the classified findings, but acknowledged it did not mention Baghuz.
A spokeswoman for the inspector general’s office disputed Mr. Tate’s account. She said that it alerted the proper authorities at Central Command shortly after receiving the first hotline complaint in 2019. The spokeswoman said the office also notified criminal investigators about the strike in October 2020, 14 months after receiving the hotline call — around the time that Mr. Tate was terminated.
A spokeswoman for the office said a new evaluation of Special Operations Command’s adherence to the law of war was expected be completed this month, and that it would include the Baghuz strike. That report will also be classified.
[DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS. THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW.]
After leaving the office, Mr. Tate refused to give up. He contacted the Senate Armed Services Committee in May and sent a 10-page letter describing the strike and what he viewed as a “systematic failure” on civilian casualty reporting. The committee then contacted Colonel Korsak, who replied with a detailed email.
When asked by The Times about the March 2019 strike, Chip Unruh, a spokesman for Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declined to comment on details of the incident, about which the Central Command has briefed the committee.
He did, however, provide a broader assessment:
“When tragic errors occur on the battlefield, the United States, as the leader of the free world, has an obligation to be transparent, take responsibility, and do everything we can to learn from and prevent future mistakes.”
Mr. Tate waited for months for the committee to call back and give him an indication that it was actively looking at the case. This week, he said with a sigh that he was still waiting.
_______
Azmat Khan, Christoph Koettl and Haley Willis contributed reporting. Drew Jordan contributed production.
Welcome back Roger.
The 14.5% increase in Part B premiums will take monthly payments for those in the lowest income bracket from $148.50 a month this year to $170.10 in 2022" cite: CNN.
Good night Brandon and the donk
They are going to get destroyed
That's grabbing the third rail with both hands"
Roger, is this rise in Insurance costs "Transatory" or permanent?
NPR Reports
"Bernice Rink didn't need to see this week's eye-popping inflation report to know that prices are getting painfully high. She can see it every time she goes to the supermarket.
"Oh my God," says Rink, "you can hardly buy groceries."
A Report Buried
Unwilling to let the issue drop, Colonel Korsak filed a hotline complaint with the inspector general’s office in August 2019.
A four-person team in the office was already looking into shortcomings in the civilian casualty reporting processes in Syria and quickly set up an interview in a secure setting. After reviewing the high-definition footage and interviewing Colonel Korsak, the team, which included Mr. Tate, told superiors in the inspector general’s office that the allegation of a war crime was “extremely credible.”
“When he came to us, he wanted to make it very clear he had tried everything else first,” Mr. Tate said. “He felt that the I.G. hotline was the only option remaining.”
But like the Air Force lawyer’s earlier effort, Mr. Tate’s team soon hit roadblocks. Central Command was slow to turn over evidence, he said. Mr. Tate obtained video from several drones flying over Baghuz that day, but could not locate the footage from the task force drone that called in the strike.
The inspector general’s office received a second complaint on the hotline about the strike, a spokeswoman said, but Mr. Tate said his team was never told.
Mr. Tate studied the task force’s casualty report, but it didn’t match what he saw on video. The civilian deaths stated in the report were “an impossibly small number,” he said.
The final section of the casualty report was reserved for the legal opinion. In one version of the report that Mr. Tate was sent by the staff at Operation Inherent Resolve, the Baghdad-based military command overseeing operations in Iraq and Syria, a task force lawyer and an operations officer wrote that a violation of the law of armed conflict may have taken place. In another copy that came from Central Command, he said, that opinion had been removed.
Mr. Tate could find no evidence that the Joint Chiefs, the defense secretary or criminal investigators had been alerted, as required.
Within days of interviewing Colonel Korsak, Mr. Tate’s team took their findings to supervisors and told them the office was required to alert those officials and criminal investigation agencies. Mr. Tate said his supervisors took no action. The team pressed leaders numerous times over the next several months, and in January 2020, Mr. Tate’s team leader drafted a memo that would formally alert authorities. It only needed to be signed by the deputy inspector general overseeing the team. Mr. Tate said the supervisor did not sign it.
In the months that followed in 2020, the team finished its report on broader issues in the civilian casualty reporting process, but as it went through the editing and approval process, which included comments from Central Command, all mentions of the Baghuz strike were cut.
Mr. Tate became increasingly pointed in criticizing the leadership of the inspector general’s office. In October 2020, he said he was forced out of his position and escorted from the building by security.
[WHO ORDERED THAT?]
The inspector general report on civilian casualties was formally released this spring to select members of Congress and the military with the proper security clearances. The office refused to release a public copy or discuss the classified findings, but acknowledged it did not mention Baghuz.
A spokeswoman for the inspector general’s office disputed Mr. Tate’s account. She said that it alerted the proper authorities at Central Command shortly after receiving the first hotline complaint in 2019. The spokeswoman said the office also notified criminal investigators about the strike in October 2020, 14 months after receiving the hotline call — around the time that Mr. Tate was terminated.
{TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.]
A spokeswoman for the office said a new evaluation of Special Operations Command’s adherence to the law of war was expected be completed this month, and that it would include the Baghuz strike. That report will also be classified.
[BUT THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW!
After leaving the office, Mr. Tate refused to give up. He contacted the Senate Armed Services Committee in May and sent a 10-page letter describing the strike and what he viewed as a “systematic failure” on civilian casualty reporting. The committee then contacted Colonel Korsak, who replied with a detailed email.
When asked by The Times about the March 2019 strike, Chip Unruh, a spokesman for Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declined to comment on details of the incident, about which the Central Command has briefed the committee.
He did, however, provide a broader assessment:
“When tragic errors occur on the battlefield, the United States, as the leader of the free world, has an obligation to be transparent, take responsibility, and do everything we can to learn from and prevent future mistakes.”
Mr. Tate waited for months for the committee to call back and give him an indication that it was actively looking at the case. This week, he said with a sigh that he was still waiting.
[DEMOCRACY DIES IN SUCH DARKNESS AS ALL THAT.
____
Azmat Khan, Christoph Koettl and Haley Willis contributed reporting. Drew Jordan contributed production.
Dave Philipps is a national correspondent covering the military and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is “Alpha, Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs.” @David_Philipps • Facebook
Eric Schmitt is a senior writer who has traveled the world covering terrorism and national security. He was also the Pentagon correspondent. A member of the Times staff since 1983, he has shared three Pulitzer Prizes. @EricSchmittNYT
A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 14, 2021, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: How the U.S. Hid a Devastating Airstrike.
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That stinks to high heaven, and somebody must be held accountable.
I believe general Milley was Army chief then.
My last two posts were only the conclusion of the long, long, long NYT article.
THAT ALL STINKS TO
HIGHEST HEAVEN.
IT ALL HAPPENED ON TRUMP'S WATCH.
Not off topic:
You have been blaming Biden for the comparitively few citizens including children killed recently by accident in Afghanistan.
No pedo we blamed him for the flat out lies that they hit a terrorist car bomber and the secondary explosions proved it. Oh that was after he stupidly ran from the Stan and allowed at least 13 military personnel to be killed, allowing 1000s of Iraqi’s supporters to be left behind, didn’t vet the refugees that did come here, leaving behind enough military equipment to make the Taliban a force in the area.
You STUPID FUCK
November 13, 2021 at 2:43 PM
Nicely done Cali.
"Grocery prices in October were 5.4% higher than a year ago, according to the latest consumer price index. Overall inflation was 6.2%, the highest annual figure in more than three decades." Cite :NPR
Wait until the home heating bills hit.
Aaaaawwwww.
Biden energy policies are damaging the budgets of the middle income and the poor.
"The U.S. Department of Energy is warning Americans that they will likely pay "significantly" more to heat their homes this winter"
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Almost 200 nations accepted a contentious climate compromise Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered down crucial language about coal.
Good news for the country and the other, in West Virginia and Montana and Wyoming.
I actually worked on a coal mining project in Montana. We built the system that crushed the coal so it could be loaded onto a train cars.
One of the biggest structures went down about 50' of more. The biggest concrete pours was more than 1000 cubic yards.
They actually had their own concrete plant.
It was in late 1979. The nearest town is Sheridan Wyoming. It was fun to go to Sheridan on the weekends.
Michigan Vote for Biden, Congrats.
Your propane prices are up 46% ."
Biden policies are going to kill people .
I remember one day when the temperature was-20° but they said the forecast was to get to at least 20°
But it set a record turnout temperature rise to about 40° 60° difference in about 6 hours.
🤣I actually worked on a coal mining project in Montana😃
A life never led.
And the goat fucking loser who remains unemployed living in his mommy's womb projecting on others accomplishments in which HE HAS NONE.....Just like yesterday's bitch slapping you into next week projecting about what I witnessed....FUCKING JAGOFF!!!!! BTW.....I worked on many black programs which are still being used to protect assholes like you.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Biden policies are going to kill people .
Like the 777k killed by trumps flu and his ineptifude?????
".I worked on many black programs " Alky/Denny
What is are "black programs"?
Denny/Alky/unknown blogger.
Brandon said he had the Solution and on Jan. 20th, 2021 , thank God he fully implemented it.
More deaths in 2021... then in 2020.
You claim to have served......you should know asshole!!!!!
777k deaths due to trump and the GOP being dumber than you!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Top secret Denny, omg, so funny.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And you lied about serving!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!! You make a rock look like einstein!!!!!!!!!!
And you still sit home, an unemployed pile of shit with no future!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Denny, your problem is you lie, u get confused by your lies.
You be you, it is for our entertainment.
The list grows of the things Brandon Promised but can't deliver.
The job is too big for him.
His JV Affrimative Action VP is worse.
She was the golden child for being the next Pres, , not any longer.
https://trib.com/business/energy/powder-river-basin-coal-mine-ceases-operations-asks-court-to-reject-pension-and-health-care/article_ff0d270f-44d6-5740-87f0-0818a5809d3d.html
The Powder River coal mine has filled for bankruptcy..
The pictures show it . The towers were where the train cars go loaded with the ground coal.
https://trib.com/business/energy/powder-river-basin-coal-mine-ceases-operations-asks-court-to-reject-pension-and-health-care/article_ff0d270f-44d6-5740-87f0-0818a5809d3d.html
Inflation is Boogeyman of kputz
Partisans flinging but inflation! at bills they don’t like is not exactly a new tactic. Propaganda.
Inflation is always the boogeyman people try to throw against expansionary policy in general It’s proving more effective this time because the inflation rate has actually increased, for nuanced reasons.”
No president wants to see higher prices for gas and groceries under his watch, especially when there’s not much he can do about it.
The Federal Reserve can bring down inflation by raising interest rates and sparking a recession — a “pretty dangerous” move for an economy that still hasn’t recovered from the pandemic.
But if the cause for the current spike is indeed the combination of pandemic-changed spending habits and pandemic-hobbled supply chains, the key to dropping inflation rates is … ending the pandemic.
The Republicans don't want the pandemic to end, because they use it as another boogeyman.
Roger, you know nothing.
"
The Federal Reserve can bring down inflation by raising interest rates and sparking a recession"
Look at the pre-pandemic rate hikes by the Fed during the Trump years.
They raise rates and our economy still grew.
Roger, a economic and financial fucktard.
"Dec. 19, 2018, 2:00 PM EST
By Lucy Bayly
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday hiked the nation's benchmark borrowing rate by 0.25 percent for the fourth time this year.
No rate hike do not cause "recessions".
A guy with a PhD and a Nobel prize in economics said that kputz is a fucking
stupid trolling asshole.
So what can 1946-48 teach us about inflation in 2021? Then as now there was a surge in consumer spending, as families rushed to buy the goods that had been unavailable in wartime. Then as now it took time for the economy to adjust to a big shift in demand — in the 1940s, the shift from military to civilian needs. Then as now the result was inflation, which in 1947 topped out at almost 20 percent. Nor was this inflation restricted to food and energy; wage growth in manufacturing, which was much more representative of the economy as a whole in 1947 than it is now, peaked at 22 percent.
But the inflation didn’t last. It didn’t end immediately: Prices kept rising rapidly for well over a year. Over the course of 1948, however, inflation plunged, and by 1949 it had turned into brief deflation.
What, then, does history teach us about the current inflation spike? One lesson is that brief episodes of overheating don’t necessarily lead to 1970s-type stagflation — 1946-48 didn’t cause long-term inflation, and neither did the other episodes that most resemble where we are now, World War I and the Korean War. And we really should have some patience: Given what happened in the 1940s, pronouncements that inflation can’t be transitory because it has persisted for a number of months are just silly.
Oh, and for what it’s worth, the bond market is, in effect, predicting a temporary bump in inflation, not a permanent rise. Yields on inflation-protected bonds maturing over the next couple of years are strongly negative, implying that investors expect rapid price rises in the near term. But longer-term market expectations of inflation have remained stable.
Another lesson, which is extremely relevant right now (hello, Senator Manchin), is that an inflation spurt is no reason to cancel long-term investment plans. The inflation surge of the 1940s was followed by an epic period of public investment in America’s future, which included the construction of the Interstate Highway System. That investment didn’t reignite inflation — if anything, by improving America’s logistics, it probably helped keep inflation down. The same can be said of the Biden administration’s spending proposals, which would do little to boost short-term demand and would help long-term supply.
So yes, that was an ugly inflation report, and we hope that future reports will look better. But people making knee-jerk comparisons with the 1970s and screaming about stagflation are looking at the wrong history. When you look at the right history, it tells you not to panic.
From the time President Elect Trump Won to the beginning of the China Bio-weapon virus release , the Fed raised rates from .25 % under Obimbo to 2.25 % .
No recession .
Roger, you can't debate me.
You just don't know enough.
So cut n paste, and be wrong.
When Chris Christie Was Sick with Covid-19
5:29 pm EST
Former Gov. Chris Christie reveals in his new book “how worried he and others were for his survival when he became infected with the coronavirus after being at the White House around the same time that Mr. Trump and several other aides contracted Covid-19. Mr. Christie writes that his priest arrived in the hospital and rubbed oils on his forehead in the sign of the cross, praying over him,” the New York Times reports.
“He got a call from a hospitalized Mr. Trump, who had one main concern: ‘Are you gonna say you got it from me?’”
IT'S ALL ABOUT TRUMP.
NOW WONDER SO MANY PEOPLE DESPISE HIM.
Roger, is it your position that IF the Federal reserve raises rates they are bringing on a Recession?
THE HILL REPORTS:
Trump Rips McConnell Again Over Infrastructure
5:19 pm EST
Former President Donald Trump slammed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in a statement, saying the Senate minority leader should attend the White House signing ceremony for the bipartisan infrastructure package passed by the House on Nov. 5, The Hill reports.
Said Trump:
“Based on the fact that the Old Crow convinced many Republican Senators to vote for the Bill, greatly jeopardizing their chance of winning re-election, and that he led the way, he should go to the signing and put up with the scorn from Great Republican Patriots that are already lambasting him.”
GREAT REPUBLICAN PATRIOTS?
NO, CRINGING REPUBLICAN QUISLINGS.
March 2021 $1.9 Trillion Spending Bill becomes law.
Nov. 2021 $1.25 Trillion Spending Bill becomes law (Joe will sign it)
And $1,75 Trillion Spending Bill is going to pass in Dec.
$4.9 Trillion in Spending is not inflationary according to The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/how-the-u-s-hid-an-airstrike-that-killed-dozens-of-civilians-in-syria/
Roger, is it your position that IF the Federal reserve raises rates they are bringing on a Recession?
On Trump's last full day in office, the USA reached 400,000 Covid deaths.
In 2021 Biden Failed
Biden has 361,000 covid deaths .
Biden adds 2,044 Covid deaths yesterday.
Go a point Revered?
The Defense Department’s independent inspector general began an inquiry, but the report containing its findings was stalled and stripped of any mention of the strike.
So in real life terms...
There is no evidence of anything that the New York Inquirer Times is actually "reporting", huh?
Sort of like the whole Trump conspired with Putin thing.
Poor Brandon.
"the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index — has fallen by more than 20 points from 88.3 in April to 66.8 in November.
Not only is it the lowest point for this year, it's the lowest point of the entire pandemic when it plunged from 101.0 in February to 71.8 in April 2020 "
Kputz The Federal Reserve can bring down inflation by raising interest rates, but higher interest rates slow down the economy...
101
Dumbshit
rrb will call him a RINO and again a traitor.
Pence is 'ashamed' of Trump and will run against him in 2024: former White House official
John Wright
November 13, 2021
Mike Pence's former press secretary said Saturday she believes he will run against Donald Trump in the GOP primary in 2024.
Alyssa Farah, who went on to become Trump's White House Director of Strategic Communications, blasted the former president for defending Capitol rioters who called for Pence to be hanged, in an interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl that was released this week.
"It's comments like that that will never make me feel bad for never again defending Donald Trump, because as you said it's completely indefensible," Farah told CNN.
Trump told Karl he wasn't worried about Pence's safety on Jan. 6 because the vice president was "well protected" and "in good shape." But Farah pointed out that members of Congress who were in the Capitol didn't enjoy the same Secret Service protection.
"What about the other 535 lawmakers who don't have security details?" Farah said. "It was fine that their lives might be threatened because of this? It's just absurd, it's indefensible, and I have to hope that conservatives and Republicans of good faith hear things like that and say, 'We don't need four more years of this man.'"
Asked why she thinks Pence agreed to even meet with or speak with Trump after the attack, Farah said it's because the former vice president is "very deferential to both the chain of command and the institution of the presidency."
"I think he would always take a call from Donald Trump, he would always take a meeting if one was requested of him," she said. "I think those must have been very awkward and tough conversations. I've always known Mike Pence to be a person of deep character and conviction, so I don't doubt that in those private communications, he communicated how bad (Jan. 6) was, and how inappropriate it was — not for him, but for the country. And I think you're going to see a bit more distancing as time goes on. There's aspects of the record they did together that I know Pence is proud of, but I know he is ashamed of that day, he is ashamed of how the former president conducted himself."
Asked whether Pence will run against Trump in 2024, Farah said, "I think he will," adding that she has no special knowledge of his plans.
"There's this belief that people are just going to clear the field for Trump," she said. "I actually think some folks are teeing up to run ... and it's a good thing for the party. A coronation of Donald Trump would be the worst thing both for the party, but more importantly for the country."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAKONZYqvyE
How could the Left hope to maintain the support of the mass of Americans once its actual goals and methods became evident? In the past, leftists made a serious effort to shield their true agenda from scrutiny using a wide range of methods – wrapping itself in a veil of “compassion,” claiming that all opposition arose from throwback “right-wingers,” and using the most ignorant and ill-informed members of the public (teenagers and suburban matrons) to spearhead its public-influence campaigns. Overall control of the media rendered this strategy workable.
But as of 2021, that appears to have gone by the board. Instead of hiding their goals or even sugar-coating them, the left is shouting them through bullhorns: you’re not going to get Christmas. Get the jab or starve. We’re turning your kids over to the tender mercies of sexual deviants. Get ready for the Jihadi terrorists coming to your neighborhood.
It’s as if the Bolsheviks spent all of 1917 racing from village to village telling the peasants, “When we take over, you’re all being sent to Siberia. Yippee!”
Everyone knew pence would be running in 2024. Of course he's gonna separate himself.
https://youtu.be/IAZKwuNvt8c
Roger is all over the place, no moral or intellectual foundation.
1st Alky said
"
"The Federal Reserve can bring down inflation by raising interest rates and sparking a recession"
Now Alky says:
"The Federal Reserve can bring down inflation by raising interest rates, but higher interest rates slow down the economy..."
I see alky repeat posted what the POS "pastor" had endlessly posted about from the minute GODdard posted.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Great reading ability and comprehension on display there.
Can't even apply it to a blog he's on 24/7
*howling*
Well we kn ow he won't understand this either !!!
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