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Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:00 AM

A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman

An e-mail I received this morning from Col. Steven Boylan is heavy on petty insults but extremely light on the issues that actually matter.

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  • Sunday, October 28, 2007 02:42 PM

    Boylan or a confidant in his office wrote the recent email

    I hold zero expertise in IT matters, headers, routing & etc. But these two things I do know:

    (1) The author of today's Boylan email knew for a FACT that Boylan neither gave, nor had Glenn requested, permission to publish Boylan's older email exchanges with Glenn. (An issue Glenn did not address in his publication of the older emails.)

    (2) Boylan's astonishing lack of interest in who was using his email addy and using a CENTCOM account to speak for him is most telling. If the colonel did not author today's email than there is either or both of a profound security breach or someone is sending nasty emails under the colonel's name. He ought to be distressed as well as livid, unless, of course, he knows he actually wrote the supposedly fake email at issue.

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