Comments on: Brennan Needs to Correct the Record on Drones http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2013/01/10/brennan-needs-to-correct-the-record-on-drones/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Tue, 21 May 2013 11:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Guy Montag http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2013/01/10/brennan-needs-to-correct-the-record-on-drones/#comment-186778 Guy Montag Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:28:00 +0000 http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/?p=22701#comment-186778 "As retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal told Reuters recently: “The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes… is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level… ”" ... Despite Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s much vaunted “candor,” his new memoir, “My Share of the Task,” whitewashes all the controversies of his career. For example, he still declines to “confirm or deny” the accuracy of Michael Hasting’s “Rolling Stone” profile which got him fired (McChrystal doesn’t even mention Hastings by name, nor discuss his 2012 book, “The Operators” which details “Le’Affair Rolling Stan”). In addition, McChrystal dodged taking responsibility for his central role in the cover-up of Pat Tillman’s 2004 friendly-fire death, the routine use of torture by JSOC forces under his command, and his strategically flawed Afghan War “surge” (for details, see the 120-page post, "Never Shall I Fail My Comrades": The Dark Legacy of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, at the Feral Firefighter blog). Finally, McChrystal’s portrayal of the interrogations that led to the 2006 killing of Abu Zarqawi totally contradict the accounts of both author Marc Bowden (“The Ploy”) and former interrogator Matthew Alexander (“We found Zarqawi in spite of the way the task force [145] did business”). And, McChrystal somehow failed to even mention interrogator Eric Maddox who was decorated for his efforts which directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein (perhaps because a key detainee died of a “heart attack” shortly after arriving at Camp Nama). “As retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal told Reuters recently: “The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes… is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level… ””

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Despite Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s much vaunted “candor,” his new memoir, “My Share of the Task,” whitewashes all the controversies of his career. For example, he still declines to “confirm or deny” the accuracy of Michael Hasting’s “Rolling Stone” profile which got him fired (McChrystal doesn’t even mention Hastings by name, nor discuss his 2012 book, “The Operators” which details “Le’Affair Rolling Stan”).

In addition, McChrystal dodged taking responsibility
for his central role in the cover-up of Pat Tillman’s 2004 friendly-fire death, the routine use of torture by JSOC forces under his command, and his strategically flawed Afghan War “surge” (for details, see the 120-page post, “Never Shall I Fail My Comrades”: The Dark Legacy of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, at the Feral Firefighter blog).

Finally, McChrystal’s portrayal of the interrogations that led to the 2006 killing of Abu Zarqawi totally contradict the accounts of both author Marc Bowden (“The Ploy”) and former interrogator Matthew Alexander (“We found Zarqawi in spite of the way the task force [145] did business”). And, McChrystal somehow failed to even mention interrogator Eric Maddox who was decorated for his efforts which directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein (perhaps because a key detainee died of a “heart attack” shortly after arriving at Camp Nama).

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