hahaha

Boylan's not even a good liar.

In the Air Force, if you fly a plane well and keep your record clean, you are pretty much guaranteed Lt. Col. It doesn't take too much more to reach full bird and ability to communicate is not the highest priority because you are in operations where the action is. It takes a lot more to reach full bird if you are a desk flyer.

is anybody else frightened by this guy, who speaks on behalf of general surge? is anybody out there up enough on the army's chain of command to know who boylan's superior in washington would be? maybe if all glenn's readers had his number and could put in a phone call concerned about the apparent hacking of centcom's email, we'd all have an answer real soon.

Please forgive me if someone else has posted about this already. I do not have time to plough through 421 comments.

Doesn't Col. Boylan have a security clearance? I would expect so, given his position. If so, then doesn't the identity theft of someone with a security clearance mean that we have much bigger national security problems than we thought? Is it really that easy to steal the identity of someone with a security clearance? Perhaps someone with expertise on such matters could answer this question.

The legacy of the Bushist reign as America's leaders should be noted with a postscript that acknowledges the degree that nearly all three divisions of government were taken over and politicized to an incredible degree.

It's as if there was a bloody coup d'etat on the day that the Supreme Court installed the dictator George W. Bush.

What I find frightening is the total lack of awareness of the people to what has happened and is happening.

Under the guise of 'religion', the Bushists have taken over...

I believe his direct superior is Gen. Petraeus. In the pentagon there would be a director of public affairs that works for the Secretary of the Army that also has some say in what Boylan does as a public affairs officer as does the head of public affairs for U.S. Centcom, the unified command responsible for operations in Iraq and Iran.

Iraq and Afghanistan. although if we are stupid enough to start a fight in Iran, CENTCOM would oversea that fight as well.

As much fun as we're all having at Boylan's expense-- in particular, his illiterate and inarticulate rantings-- shouldn't we be concerned that such poor communication skills, if representative, might eventually cause some military crisis, if only because someone didn't understand someone else's instructions, and did the opposite?

Blatant speculation:

If this was an attempt at a "Rathergate", then we can expect sometime today some leaked "evidence" to appear somewhere in outer wingnuttia. As several commenters have pointed out, this path has been made a bit treacherous with the careful header analysis, but this group simply has no regard for the truth and will come up with an "explanation".

If this was simply Boylan getting carried away and hitting "send" when he should have hit "delete", then I would also expect something to come out in out wingnuttia today, but, in this case, what would come out would be a defense along the lines of how hard Boylan has to work under such difficult conditions, and why wouldn't we expect someone to "snap" now and then under those conditions.

However, if Central Command has realized just how serious this really is, then expect an underling of Boylan to be thrown under the bus today. He will be reported to have used Boylan's computer without authorization. This will happen if that is really the case and will happen if Boylan's computer or the network in Iraq has been compromised. There is no chance that compromising of the network would be reported truthfully.

Finally, I would put our chances of ever really finding out what happened at approximately zero.

Shooter242, you never answered my question from days ago, wherein I asked you what "crimes" "the Clintons" had committed.

Your answer was that I should simply Google "Clinton crimes" and see "how many hits I get," which is of course ridiculous since by the same logic I could Google "UFO sightings" and emerge as a believer in alien visitors.

This is an invitation to set aside the tortuous semantics and tell me, straight out, in plain English, what "crimes" the Clintons committed.

A DUI? (No, wait, that was George W. Bush.) Striking and killing an ex-boyfriend with a car? (No, wait; that was Laura Bush.) Violating the Geneva Conventions? (Bush again.)

Once you've provided a list of actual Clinton crimes, we can get into your bizarre contention that "crimes for personal gain" are morally worse than mere "crimes for the public good" (as if Halliburton's asbestos problems and Cheney's manipulation of their contracts don't benefit him personally).

So, I'm waiting: What are "the Clinton's" "crimes?"

So, I'm waiting: What are "the Clinton's" "crimes?"

So far as shooter242 and his ilk are concerned, the fact both of them are breathing is crime enough.

Col. Boylan's responses to Glen's postings are not just troubling, but evidence of the kind of hyper-politicization of government that we've witnessed with this administration. To see this happening in the military demonstrates how dangerous is our escapade in Iraq. If things were going well or improving, there would be no need for this kind of "handling" of public relations. That US citizens are paying for it with our taxes is a sign of the kind of crash and burn policies implemented by the military to try and cover ineptitude that is unprecendented. Not only have they made an enormous mess but they keep bullshitting about it, and the bullshit is blatant. It's all transparent, which is why public opinion polls show sinking numbers for the entire government.

Boylan's arrogance belies insecurity. Glenn is doing the right thing by standing up to the latest bully on the block to come trolling.

In the flurry of yesterday's comments and speculation - alternatively worded; trying to make sense out of nonsense - I didn't take the time to read the full version of Boylan's unsolicited email Glenn posted at UT until this morning. The introductory paragraphs are pretty funny, actually. He seems to start out trying to strike a jovial, avuncular tone and then loses it as he sinks into his own two-dimensional self-space.

I am not sending this as anyone's spokesperson, just a straight military Public Affairs Officer, with about 27 months overall time in Iraq who is concerned with accuracy, context and characterization of information and has worked with media of all types since joining the career field in 1991.

Yep. That is a single sentence. Wonder why Boylan felt the need to include that he was "straight?" It's anyone's guess how Boylan feels he can make the claim that he's not anyone's spokesperson while responding to a piece a Glenn has written about military public affairs' releases. What's interesting is his first sentence suggesting he'd wanted to post this in Glenn's letters section. I had hoped to post this in response to your article, but apparently it is closed already. What a lost opportunity for the rest of us.

Glenn left a comments opportunity open when he posted the email in full. Turned out to be an opportunity for the Freepers to chime in. As expected, unable to address the substance of Glenn's post, they chose to vent their spleens on Glenn.