That's simple. I want everything done within reason to investigate and find out what actually happened. Once the answer is known (or once it is ascertained that it can't be), then it would be clearer what ought to happen next.

For now, I would just like someone with the ability to force an investigation -- the Pentagon, military officials, a larger media organization that he can't refuse to respond to -- to inquire aggressively.

Not to seem too forward, but have you taken steps to formally request such an investigation, other than posting this story to your blog? I ask not as a implied criticism, but out of honest curiousity. Also, knowing to whom you addressed any such request would allow us, your readers, to add our voices to yours.

How about this:

It never was Boylan in the first place! Even way back when.

But Glenn has now successfully reached the creative-writing-Colonel, who is quite perplexed with the protective, pro-active belligerence of the Grand Interceptor.

Now that explains a lot.

--Randy Campbell

There has never been -- not once -- an unambiguously true statement released by any official spokesman acting in any official capacity on behalf of the Bush regime.

This includes Col. Boylan.

Good for you GG.

If other readers would rather read something else, they are free to do so.

In the meantime, you keep on digging this thing until either Boylan comes clean or Petraeus fires his ass for being such a jerk which will prove, as if proof were needed that, Petraeus knows what Boylan is up to. It would not stretch the imagination that it is Petraeus that has given boy Boylan carte blanche to act like, well, like a jerk.

Keep writing about it glenn. It gives me something to reference when I talk about how ridiculous the left is.

The following comment has a good suggestion on how to encourage the military to follow its own security policies:

http://tinyurl.com/39zm7e

with Glenn that this is a matter worth pursuing. There are only two possibilities here, and they are both serious:

(1) The spokesperson for the military's supreme commanding officer in Iraq is sending juvenile, politicized, and wildly inaccurate e-mails to bloggers and journalists in an apparent effort to intimidate them.

(2) Someone has hacked into the computer of aforementioned spokesman, which poses a security threat of the most serious kind.

In either case, this matter deserves the immediate attention not only of Glenn Greenwald, who is at the center of this situation, but also the U.S. military. I think this should be pursued either until Boylan comes clean, or until a thorough investigation has been conducted and the results made public.

I'm currently re-reading "Catch-22" and I couldn't help thinking that our Col. Boylan reminds me of the characters in the novel.....

In particular, "Major Major Major Major".....

"Major Major was also promoted to squadron commander after his predecessor, Major Duluth, was killed in action. It is this event that causes Major Major to become a recluse: he stops eating meals at the mess hall, he avoids all his duties by forging false names to correspondence requiring his signature, and he enters his office by scooting along a ditch, then jumping through a window."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Major_Major_Major

There's plenty of Heller in pretty much everything Dubya and the maladministration (and the coterie of sycophants) do:

http://tinyurl.com/2dlu34

Cheers,

Glenn, you've already made up your mind about Boylan and Petraeus, now you're just trying to fit the emails into your pre-framed story.

Glen, thanks for pursuing this to the end... it should be disturbing to every American citizen that we have a Colonel in the military that We the People pay for behaving in such a dishonest and adolescent manner. This person is in the business of war and defense, a field that demands seriousness and professionalism, and it boggles the mind (and is downright scary) that he's so highly placed in the military organization.

Glenn, you've already made up your mind about Boylan and Petraeus, now you're just trying to fit the emails into your pre-framed story.

Glenn has amply documented the politicization of the military, of which both the General and his PAO are emblematic of. The fact the Colonel chooses to broadcast this fact is no fault of Glenn's and merely reinforces the underlying point.

I'll give the victory to GG because we do have the right to expect more from SB.

As an aside, SB is a hack, but beyond that, dude has got to be extraordinarily dumb. Nonshocker.

[Glenn]: The titles indicate what I'm writing about. If you're not interested in this topic, there isn't anything preventing you from skipping it (it will most likely have the word "Boylan" in it).

[Egypt Steve]: Excuse the hell out of me. I didn't realize the "comments" section was really just the "applause" section. My bad. Hail Glenn. Really.

Glenn said, "The titles indicate...." Just skip the damn posts you don't like. He didn't say a thing about "comments". And if you don't like the cmments, even easier to skip them. Now go jump in a lake.

Cheers,

Not to seem too forward, but have you taken steps to formally request such an investigation, other than posting this story to your blog? I ask not as a implied criticism, but out of honest curiousity. Also, knowing to whom you addressed any such request would allow us, your readers, to add our voices to yours.

Yes, I'm both working on things and aware of things others are doing to work on this. I don't mean to sound all confidnetial and coy about it; but some of them were told me to in confidence and all of them are in the non-finished stages were talking about them would probably ruin them. But none of it is guaranteed to result in anything - it's all indirect and short of what ought to be happening - hence, my continuing pressure.

Glenn has a new thread on Norm Podhoretz and his appearance on News Hour last night and this is what Egypt Steve posted.

This is what I like to see! Nail the head cases who are whipping up the next war, and who have real influence with (god forbid) serious presidential contenders. Kudos.

I'm glad to see Fareed Zakariah moving away from his Bush-cheerleader roll of a few years ago, and really take Podhoretz down. What I really wish that he, or Judy Woodruff had done, however, would have been to really expose the *racial* root of Podhoretz' animus towards the Iranians. They are (so he thinks, but not really) brown-skinned barbarians from the East. That is why they can't, in his view, be deterred. The whole march to war in Iran, as it was in Iraq, is fundamentally racist paranoia.