Boylan has been shown to be an incompetent officer and deliberately biased. That he is in a position that has him responding to the public media so poorly and biased should be reason for his removal and discharge.

With his own words and actions, Boylan has thoroughly hung himself. It is time to move on and demand answers from his superiors in Iraq and in Washington if Boylan’s now obvious bias represents them, their policy, and that of the U.S. Army. If not, they need to explain why he still holds office as the public face to the media.

Note: Speaking as a former officer, if he was working for me, he'd be pulling duty at the motor pool wash rack while awaiting reassignment (or discharge).

You can bet that for every letter there are a sizeable number of anonymous posts to the blog which is part of that same thorn in their side. One person can be an entire legion in cyberspace and it only takes a small number of neocon thug posts to make the communication means unpleasent and tarred with the stupidity and the nastiness of mentally ill bullies worried about their status in the pecking order when the word treason is being bandied about in reference to their theivery, war crimes and contempt for all that is good.

General Betrayus - that which some call god does have a sense of humor.

I had one of these government trolls assigned to me. He works at the USAID. He used at least 50 different online personas to harrass and attack me in cyberspace. Ouch, that's gotta hurt something fierce. Not really, ASCII character strings can only do so much. He stopped.

Consider each and everyone of the trolls to be a government or defense industry hack whose only purpose at their work is to get you to stop. Don't stop.

Evil + stupidity + impotence, is not a winning combination.

But yes, I am obsessing- obsessing about when this story will go mainstream.

For anyone watching this administration, "relentless" and "absolutely relentless" is the ONLY way to describe how they play and win the 24 hour news cycle game. Comes now the Iraq invasion, so coat this same crowd with a 105% determination to not let the Press "lose the war" (everybody say "Viet Nam"). Heck, by now, Boylan's vulgar smear and fear is, well, to be expected.

Move on? HELL NO!

Meanwhile, I'll keep obsessing about Senators Webb, Dodd or Leahey holding public hearings on this matter.

You write,

"This is a distraction from the real problems we face. We've got a president who orders people abducted and tortured, and who launches one illegal war of aggression and is plotting another.."

You admit we've got a President who has assumed dictatorial powers -- abducting, torturing people and starting illegal wars. Have you asked yourself why there is so little debate about these crimes in the U.S. media? Could it be, just maybe, that journalists have been cowed and intimidated through the use of the same type of tactics being used by Colonel Boylan against Glenn Greenwald and other liberal bloggers? Just maybe? And, if so, wouldn't it be important to expose this effort to silence dissent?

This is an enormous threat to our right to speak out as citizens and must not go unchallenged. If you can't see that, perhaps you should do some reading about the history of anti-democratic movements.

It wouldn't be surprising at all if it turns out that the posts of "Egypt Steve" actually came from Steve Boylan.

While politicization of the military IS a big deal, the conclusion from every letter sent still seems to have been-CAN'T PROVE it. And while I applaud Glenns' efforts to utilize and call on as much expertise in the area of tracing emails-thus far it has still come to the same conclusion. So the story is CT and as not yet fact or reality-based in what Glenn suspects to be the truth, and I agree with him.

I have forwarded the first story to Sen Leahy-other commenters have done the same. Perhaps passing it on to others who CAN get to the truth is the best and only option available for now. This daily drip of "yes you did-no I didn't", without much further information is wearing on me, since so little fact is coming out of it as the story rages on.

The reason this is funny is because he keeps denying that he's sent this email or that email, yet it's pathetically obvious that all of these emails are coming from the same snide loudmouth.

It is the height of hypocrisy and stupidity that Boylan and other Republicans like him have developed the habit of doing whatever they please, and then following the party line of 'deny! deny! deny!' it all.

If Boylan felt so strongly about these topics that he wrote unsolicited emails to bloggers, why won't he stand by what he's said? Because even he can see the sheer idiocy in his own emails, and maybe because others in charge are now trying to do some damage control. Whichever it is, it all reeks of the familiar Republican underhandedness.

See link below for additional evidence of partisan politics in the military and backlash developing against it.

http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

PS: If your readers have not yet discovered NoComment, I encourage them to link away. It's another great, legal/constitutional blog.

He's a troll because he considers the official spokesman for the commanding general in Iraq is a "nobody" who shouldbe given a pass for writing intimidating letters to people who disagree with the official military line. If Boylan was an obscure colonel with no official standing, ES might be right about him being a nobody. When the U.S. military designates you as official spokesman for a top commander, that makes you a somebody. If ES can't understand that, he's really too stupid for words.

All that says to me is that he's judged the situation differently than you. Maybe his judgment is deficient, but my understanding of a "troll" is someone who deliberately espouses a contrary view just to cause trouble. What I advocate is that people address what they think is wrong with his statements rather than resort to ad hominem. "Too stupid for words" is something I'd expect to hear from Ann Coulter about a liberal.