Mods i did not check yet to see if there was a thread on this.......
US Marines deny exaggerating war heroes exploits...
The US Marine Corps rejected a report that the elite unit exaggerated the deeds of a former trooper who won the country's most prestigious military
honor for his valor in Afghanistan.
McClatchy newspapers alleged that key facts in the corps' publicized account of Corporal Dakota Meyer's actions in a 2009 battle were inaccurate,
overstated or unsubstantiated. The Marines said they were "disappointed" with the article.
This is all very fishy... I think the company realized they bit off more then they could chew....
But the McClatchy report, written by Jonathan Landay, a journalist who was accompanying Meyer's unit and witnessed the 2009 battle in the Ganjgal
Valley, said details of that account were untrue or unconfirmed.
You see he waited what is this two years to come forward..... It is suspicious because I would think you would come forward as soon as his name came
out that he was being awarded the CMOH...
Also His story would already be there with the Marine Corps and the investigators....
Sounds a lot like a foreign group is trying to buy the news....
The McClatchy Company
The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states
and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million.[2] In 2006, it purchased Knight Ridder, which at the time
was the second-largest newspaper company in the United States (Gannett was and remains the largest). In addition to its daily newspapers, McClatchy
also operates several websites and community papers.
This is why I believe they where chosen...
In 2008, McClatchy's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., John Walcott, was the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence,
awarded by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.[6] In accepting the award, Walcott commented on McClatchy's reporting during the period preceding
the Iraq War:
Why, in a nutshell, was our reporting different from so much other reporting? One important reason was that we sought out the dissidents, and we
listened to them, instead of serving as stenographers to high-ranking [Bush administration] officials and Iraqi exiles.[6]
McClatchey journalists have also won dozens of Pulitzer prizes over many decades.
I am very suspicious by nature and find this all funny... My gut is that the connection between this Company and the one in the op will be the fact
that they sit on the board together or attend the same functions...
Id be surprised to find out they (BAE systems) actually own McClutchy or share owners... At this point Id be digging for this.... The reporter is part
of the key... If he was the original on scene reporter where is his original filing of this whoole episode...
Sorry been shot at before , I kinda remember the whole thing... If I was a reporter I would have reported the original story of the incident... Right
now that story is the most valuable piece of journalism in America....
You see if it is different then the reporters claim over two years later... game over for the paper... It would prove the BAE systems influenced or
attempted to influence the military....
Hence the course of espionage....... Which is what this is by a foreign entity....
Influence peddling.... Like I said it appears the company has a monstrous ego... this will be its downfalll... after all, they must have down
something really bad to that the initial claims of selling scopes to pakistan entails....
why the overkill?
the second story should have been years ago...
The reason the white house is defending the choice... They over investigated so Obama would have no surprises....
Which by the way if the reporter named is found to have been influenced, the second charge of electioneering can be adding... Being that BAE systems
is a foreign entity.... just saying....
it is an election year and Obama coming to the defense of a marine who blew the whistle on a foreign company endangering american live enhances his
own rep...
At the same time, (BAE systems) if they donated to republican causes..... they just handed Obama four more years
