Letters to the Editor
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@Ché Pasa
kwtdawg and I did mention on page eight that we were not very impressed with Dodd's performance on MTP this morning. I think that might be part of the reason why no one else talked about Dodd.
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Absolutely follow this up and press it home
From my perspective, it looks like Boylan was probably up too late (with, perhaps, a beer or three?) and annoyed, and sent off the first missive. And now - given the suggestion that your question about its authenticity - he's taking a lazy liar's way out. Nail this down - it will be very easy to do, if the Army wants to. Everything he writes is saved in a number of places.
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So, the person who stole his identity feels to bad
about it that he/she would go back, research your former exchange, and attempt to defend the colonel?
Or did the impersonator seek, not to defend the colonel, but rather to make him look snivelling and whiny?
It seems to me that a hungover colonel, regretting the e-mail he wrote, is using identity theft as an excuse.
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Glenn...
every e-mail you've sent to Boylan has been snide and accusatory. You have no ability to be an objective journalist and no standing to criticize journalists.
This ridiculous blog entry is a clear indication of that. If he didn't send you the e-mail it's too bad because he was clearly justified to send it.
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Very typical response Alkaline ...GOT ANYTHING ORIGINAL !!
Hey Alkaline .....
Go surrender yourself to a suicide bomber, Oh Brave One !!
I am sorry I posted, you CODE PINKOS are not worth even a response to your insanity !!
But, if you ALL HATE the country and the military so much why don't you all move to Bora Bora ...then you can suck up to your true HERO !! Oh, don't forget to bring your Koran !!
Looks like Boylan has the LAST LAUGH, he has all you PINKOS in a real frenzy ....ha ha ha ha ha ha !!
GOOD ONE, BOYLAN !!
Alkaline, FedUp is over & out for good ...spare your Cowardice for someone else !!
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The Message IDs are the smoking gun
Note the Message-IDs on the headers. These are
Original email this morning which Col. Boylan denies sending
7E ED 97 30 BD FD A6 41 83 D4 BE 1C 41 F9 17 BB 39 71 23
1st email from Col. Boylan today, denying the authenticity of that email:
7E ED 97 30 BD FD A6 41 83 D4 BE 1C 41 F9 17 BB 39 71 2E
Note these hex numbers are nearly identical and sequential.
As others have pointed out, unless the Salon server has been compromised, I'd read the headers to mean its on the Military side ...
Sure looks like he sent the original to me.
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There is a third possibility...
And one that doesn't involve Arlo being arrested. Col Boylan could have left his machine up and unlocked and someone else could have sat down and sent the e-mail
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RMP: yes, you're correct.
You and ktwdawg did mention the Dodd appearance. Duly noted.
My mangled point was that Glenn -- who has been on top of the Dodd insurgency from the get and was one of its instigators -- has said nothing about Dodd on MTP today, in part no doubt because of this Boylan email stunt.
Talk about distraction.
As for Our Boy Boylan, it appears he has been busy emailing all over creation the past few days. Any time some Dirty Hippy criticizes his God-General, he's on top of it. Viz:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/strategery/index.html
Some choice passages:
Colonel Steven Boylan, Petraeus' public affairs officer, disagrees with just about every letter and punctuation mark in this post.
"To start, to say that Gen Petraeus has thrown out the book is false and totally mischaracterizes the facts. No other way about it," he e-mails DANGER ROOM. "If you go back to the COIN [counterinsurgency] manual, you will [n]ote that he states clearly that sometimes the best ammunition is in fact, ammunition. That does not contradict nor intimate that he has thrown away the manual. Just the opposite. It is following the manual as the manual allows for and includes the use of force at the appropriate time."
Additionally, the operation in Sadr City the other night did not destroy the buildings as Fred [Kaplan] says. The Apache helicopters did not fire missiles into the building, but use short engagements from its chain gun. Very specific burst at those that were engaging our forces...
As for strike generating local adverse reactions, that i[s] of course possible, but to put it into context, you have to know how many of those strikes were in areas that were populated enough to be impacted which neither Fred, you or I know. So the basic research has not been conducted as yet to come to any conclusions. Many of the gun tapes I see and photos that are taken of the impacts are in relatively open areas. Many are done on deep buried IEDs/IED on roads, in fields where the enemy is located, vehicles transporting heavy machine guns to fire at our troops or aircraft. To the degree we take out buildings in populated areas is not as often as many would think...
Busy. Busy. Busy.
This may have contributed to his inappropriate behavior toward Glenn.
More than likely, he deserves some... er... downtime.
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Heaven help us
This is worse than we thought:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/20893.html
Chalabi back in action in Iraq
Chalabi "is an important part of the process," said Col. Steven Boylan, Petraeus' spokesman. "He has a lot of energy."
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Che Pasa.... re: Dodd
I've been trying to keep up with today's comments, and so had not yet commented on anything, tho' I did see Ktw's and RMP's comments.
Mostly, I have to agree that Dodd did not come across as well as he did in that interview with Charlie Rose. Partly, that may have been because of the adversarial nature that Tim adopts-- Hah! Gotcha! ...compared with Rose's more naturally curious personality-- but I think it's more likely that Dodd simply hasn't had enough time in front of the cameras on his own during this campaign season to have worked out any kinks in his talking points. (Tho' with Rose, he didn't seem to need talking points.) In general, he's been lucky when he gets a total of 5-10 minutes during one of the debates.
I was also disappointed because I thought he was supposed to have the entire hour, and it's possible that with the extra time he might have found his stride. (No rumors of Russert's retirement, yet, I suppose... ?)
I emailed Dodd's campaign awhile back saying I thought they should do more with YouTube.