SEALs killed Green Beret

[pete311]

Wow!

Green Beret killed in Mali discovered SEALs' illicit cash scheme, report says
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/13...port-says.html

[darin]

God that is the worst thing i've read.

[NightTrain]

I've always wondered about skimming in scenarios like that.

There would be really no way, outside of a sting operation, to monitor an agent's use of cash to bribe the players in any operation like that.

If Rambo in Afghanistan is going to bribe Achmed to rat out his cousin MoMo, who would be the wiser if he kept $5k for himself? We throw a lot of money at locals to get info, or services, or assistance. Of course it's necessary because the American dollar reigns supreme the world over and we have a lot of them, but I've always been curious to see what - if any - safeguards are in place to check skimming or outright cash grabs with a bogus explanation.

For certain there's got to be a high incidence of a potential bribee disappearing after the briber handed over cold hard cash.

[Gunny]

Wow!

Green Beret killed in Mali discovered SEALs' illicit cash scheme, report says
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/13...port-says.html

Pretty crappy journalist you are, Pete. The title of the article does not say "SEALs Killed Green Beret".

It says"Green Beret Killed in Mali Discovered SEALs Illicit Cash Scheme"; which, is misleading enough without you piggybacking your own theory as a thread title. The writer purposefully included the 2 events in the same header to lead people like you to an assumption, and you took the bait.

And military personnel don't go on "administrative leave". That's a civilian deal. You just get reassigned to some shit duty pending the outcome of the investigation, but you aren't on leave. Leave means you get to go sit home. More than likely they will be denied leave if they even request it. The military will want to keep a thumb on their whereabouts.

[pete311]

Pretty crappy journalist you are, Pete. The title of the article does not say "SEALs Killed Green Beret".

It says"Green Beret Killed in Mali Discovered SEALs Illicit Cash Scheme"; which, is misleading enough without you piggybacking your own theory as a thread title. The writer purposefully included the 2 events in the same header to lead people like you to an assumption, and you took the bait.

And military personnel don't go on "administrative leave". That's a civilian deal. You just get reassigned to some shit duty pending the outcome of the investigation, but you aren't on leave. Leave means you get to go sit home. More than likely they will be denied leave if they even request it. The military will want to keep a thumb on their whereabouts.

Did you read the article?

[Gunny]

Did you read the article?

Yep. Did you? "Ongoing investigation" and "persons of interest" comes to mind; not, convicted without evidence by Pete and Yellow journalism.

[aboutime]

Petey knows somebody, who knows somebody, who knew somebody that knew somebody who took part in a Money Scam that ending in the death of somebody petey claimed he knew. So...we must assume...Petey is responsible????

[Black Diamond]

Petey knows somebody, who knows somebody, who knew somebody that knew somebody who took part in a Money Scam that ending in the death of somebody petey claimed he knew. So...we must assume...Petey is responsible????

Sounds like guilt by association to me.

[Gunny]

Sounds like guilt by association to me.

He DID break the "news" first ....

[aboutime]

He DID break the "news" first ....

And his source was the 'DAILY BEAST". Not a friendly sort of rag toward the Military, or anything Honest that might expose Liberals who hate Trump, and America equally. Using FOX is as much being a hypocrite as if petey wrote it himself.

[darin]

The thread title and the post are in keeping with the intent of the linked article. What it looks like is the SEALs killed the SF Soldier. It's not disingenuous to make that leap.