Col. Steven A. Boylan who is the official spokesman for General Petraeus slams Greenwald for being the lying, immoral, litard propagandist piece of shit that he is. He takes him to task for pushing, then defending TNR's Beauchamp fiasco. Colonel Boylan also jabs Greenwald over his penchant for lying and the fact that he's a lawyer. Here is the email he sent to Greenwald....
The issues of accuracy, context, and proper characterization is something that perhaps you could do a little research and would assume you are aware of as a trained lawyer.
I do enjoy reading your diatribes as they provide comic relief here in Iraq. The amount of pure fiction is incredible. Since a great deal of this post is just opinion and everyone is entitled to their opinions, I will not address those even though they are shall we say -- based on few if any facts. That does surprise me with your training as a lawyer, but we will leave those jokes to another day. . . .
You are either too lazy to do the research on the topics to gain the facts, or you are providing purposeful misinformation -- much like a propagandist. . . .
Sorry to burst your bubble, but a little actual research on your part would have shown that [Cheney P.R. aide Steve Schmidt] is actually not here, but that would contradict your conspiracy theory. . . . .
I am curious as to when you think the media relations or operations changed here in Iraq. I in fact do know exactly the day and time that it changed and want to see if you are even in the same ballpark as reality. . . .
For the third matter concerning the Beauchamp investigation and the documents that were leaked -- it is very unfortunate that they were -- but the documents are not secret or classified. So, there is your third major error in fact. Good thing you are not a journalist.
As for working in secret with only certain media is laughable. The wide swatch of media engagements is by far the most diverse it could be. But you might not think it that way since we chose not to do an interview with you. You are not a journalist nor do you have any journalistic ethical standards as we found out from the last time I engaged with you.
As we quickly found out, you published our email conversation without asking, without permission -- just another case in point to illustrate your lack of standards and ethics. You may recall that a 30-minute interview was conducted with the program that you claim to be a contributor. So instead of doing the interview with you, we went with the real talent, Alan Colmes. . . .
I invite you to come see for yourself and go anywhere in Iraq you want, go see what our forces are doing, go see what the other coalition forces are doing, go hang out with the reporters outside the International Zone since that is where they live and work and see for yourself what ground truth is so that you can be better informed. But that would take something you probably don't have.
Steve
Steven A. Boylan
Colonel, US Army
Public Affairs Officer
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God, that was awesome. He totally evicerated Mr. Sock Puppet. Kinda reminds me of some of my dad's rants (He was a USAF officer).
Simply sublime.
Posted by: Hucbald | October 28, 2007 at 11:44 PM
Mr. sock puppet doesn't deserve anymore attention. Though I agree with this summary I wonder why anyone pays attention to this guy anymore. In my opinion he should just be ignored. Ignorance is bliss and that's all he has. He's not worth the attention he gets.
Posted by: KennyR | October 28, 2007 at 11:48 PM
"Boylan who is the official spokesman for General Petraeus slams Greenwald for being the lying, immora"
and then lies about it, claiming he didn't write the email. Pussy.
Posted by: Nick | October 29, 2007 at 01:33 AM
Hucbald, if you have followed anything other than wingnut sites, you would know that Mona was the sockpuppet, not Glenn. She did it all on her own. She still tries to hang onto his coattails, to some success. Seriously, you should blame him for that ambitious woman's nastiness.
Other than that, it seems that Col. Boyland is now pimping Chalabi. Again. Didn't the U.S. raid his place in Iraq? Didn't his sources all recant?
Choose your targets carefully.
Posted by: Michelle | October 29, 2007 at 01:41 AM
*shouldn't*
Posted by: Michelle | October 29, 2007 at 01:42 AM
it must really hurt trying to extract a size 12 combat boot from your arse.
Sincerely,
Reality
Posted by: ghost of patton | October 29, 2007 at 07:32 AM
Boylan is now claiming he did not write that e-mail, or at least, refusing to confirm that he did.
And if the point he was refuting was that the Army has become politicized, didn't he do a rather poor job of it?
Posted by: Will | October 29, 2007 at 09:17 AM
you would know that Mona was the sockpuppet, not Glenn. She did it all on her own. She still tries to hang onto his coattails, to some success.
Michelle,
LOL! That ain't Gleen's coattails Mona's hanging onto. And another error: the sock-puppets were outed as originating from the Great Man's ISP address. In fact, the best-selling, thought-leading, Senator swaying Internet Titan acknowledged as much.
Thanks for playing.
Cordially...
Posted by: Rick | October 29, 2007 at 10:26 AM
> And if the point he was refuting was that the Army has become politicized, didn't he do a rather poor job of it?
How so?
I'd like to think that the Greenwald characteristics cited are not inherent in his politics.
Posted by: Andy Freeman | October 29, 2007 at 10:30 AM
I'd like to think that the Greenwald characteristics cited are not inherent in his politics.
No, but your willingness to believe he has those characteristics IS inherent in his politics.
Posted by: Paul Dirks | October 29, 2007 at 10:49 AM
...your willingness to believe he has those characteristics IS inherent in his politics.
I can buy that.
Cordialy...
Posted by: Rick | October 29, 2007 at 10:59 AM
I think it will turn out that Greenwald(s) is Mona AND Michelle.
Posted by: Dan Collins | October 29, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Why is a man brave enough to be in the shithole that is Iraq not brave enough to admit he wrote this email?
nick called it right.
Posted by: bob_arctor | October 29, 2007 at 02:41 PM
Apparently Boylan denies writing the e-mail. So either his awesomeness wrote and then pretended he didn't (hardly your dad's rants Hucbald), or you're championing someone who's impersonating Boylan. You're not the brightest lights on the trees boys...
Posted by: My god you're a sad bunch | October 29, 2007 at 02:48 PM
Read Glenn's UPDATE IV and see that it's a spoofed email (emphasis :
Received: from INTZEXEBHIZN01.iraq.centcom.mil ([10.70.20.11]) by 02exbhizn02.iraq.centcom.mil with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Those of you who aren't computer geeks don't realize why that's significant. Think of a 10. IP address as a "555" telephone number.
Posted by: The Monster | October 29, 2007 at 02:53 PM
Ummm, a 555 number would be pretty appropriate for a Colonel in charge of PR, as bumbling as this one appears to be. Further reading of the updates would show that it's the same IP every time Boylan writes to Greenwald from.
I also hope you spotted the fact that Boylan wasn't able to dismiss a single point from Greenwald's original commentary. Don't be distracted by the red cape, guys. There's a sword back thee, and Boylan is going to stick you in the neck with it.
T
Posted by: Thomas Theobald | October 29, 2007 at 03:05 PM
Back "there", even.
Posted by: Thomas Theobald | October 29, 2007 at 03:06 PM
Hey, Monster, a 10.x.x.x IP isn't a "555 number". It's more like an internal extension on an office PBX. You can use it internally, but it won't play nice outside your own network. It's done all the time - almost no large organization uses a "routable" IP netblock inside its firewalls. That's why the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx and other similar blocks of IPs were set aside in the first place. So his computer on the 10.x IP address hands off the mail to the mail gateway, which then transmits it to the destination. This is bog-standard internet architecture, nothing shady going on there.
The headers and e-mail look legit. Either Boylan wrote the mail in a fit of pique and now is afraid to admit it because he might get in trouble with his bosses for stirring up shit to no purpose (in which case he's a pussy), or someone's hacked into his account on a military network in Iraq to send an inflammatory e-mail to a nobody blogger so that Boylan will look bad to a very few people in the internet echo chamber. Which one seems more likely?
Posted by: IP Cop | October 29, 2007 at 04:14 PM
It's a new game: the person to say "sockpuppet" the most times wins a brand new lie.
Posted by: Thom | October 29, 2007 at 05:33 PM
"Those of you who aren't computer geeks don't realize why that's significant."
I've been a software engineer for 25 years and I'd say Peter Boothe's analysis here: http://www.uoregon.edu/~pboothe1/iraq_emails/ is authoritative. Based on that, there's either a talented hacker freely acting in the military network or the Colonel did send these emails and is now denying it.
Posted by: Tom Ritchford | October 29, 2007 at 05:57 PM
Rick, you are very funny, but not as funny as Dan Collins.
Keep trying!
Posted by: Michelle | October 29, 2007 at 07:19 PM
Michelle,
Naw...Dan is The Man. You know, the one you've always heard about, holding the brothers down & all.
So I just call him "sir."
Cordially...
Posted by: Rick | October 29, 2007 at 08:10 PM
So, we agree. Dan is the man.
You've improved already.
Nice work!
Posted by: Michelle | October 29, 2007 at 09:10 PM
As Steven Colbert wisely said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." Take solace in that knowledge as the right-wing blogosphere has its ass handed to it yet again by Glenn Greenwald.
Posted by: Padre Confessor | October 29, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Huh? Boylan/Faux Boylan smacks down the Gleen(s) and it's him handing the right wing blogosphere it's ass?
Let me stand on my head and look at that....
Hmmm....mebbe if I spin around backwards too...
Nope. I don't see it.
Posted by: | October 30, 2007 at 12:46 AM