Glenn Greenwald: Col. Boylan's implosion accelerates

[babylonsister]

Col. Boylan's implosion accelerates

(updated below - Update II)

Col. Boylan now refuses to respond to any of my emails or other inquiries. He is also refusing to respond to at least one journalist whom I know is working on a comprehensive article on this matter. But he has been quite busy responding -- often at great length -- to readers here and other individuals who have emailed him about his behavior.

I am publishing the unedited versions of two particularly bizarre email exchanges with readers which are, for several reasons, credible and verifiable. Those email exchanges are here and here.

Several things are notable: (1) Col. Boylan is now resorting to demonstrable, outright lying; (2) he is expressly claiming that the original email is not "real," rather desperately though clearly insinuating -- without the slightest basis -- that I fabricated it myself; and (3) the more Col. Boylan writes, the more evident it becomes that he shares numerous viewpoints with the original e-mailer and, more importantly, expresses those viewpoints using the same unique and recognizable style of "English" used to write the disputed email.

I will note again that nobody from the military, the Pentagon or any other government agency has contacted me to request that I provide the "fake" email or any other information, something I have been and remain more than happy to do. That indicates rather clearly that neither Col. Boylan nor anybody else is investigating to find out, to borrow from O.J. Simpson, who the "real emailer" here is -- the supposed de-frauder sending out email in the name of Gen. Petraeus' personal spokesman.

I've been urging an investigation of this matter from the very beginning, something I'd be highly unlikely to do -- for extremely obvious reasons -- if events did not occur exactly as I described them. By stark and revealing contrast, Col. Boylan has been eager to have this entire matter just disappear -- very, very odd behavior for someone who claims to be the victim of having an extremely authentic-looking and incriminating e-mail sent in his name, particularly since it was published and widely discussed in numerous venues, and will be discussed shortly in still more.

As we have learned repeatedly over the last six years, those who tell the truth and have done nothing wrong want investigations; guilty parties want to avoid them. If Col. Boylan is telling the truth, one would think he'd be eager to have an investigation -- governmental or media -- to find out what actually happened. Yet he has done nothing to initiate one and everything possible to ensure it does not happen. Why would that be?

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

[jgraz]

1. Glenn is having waaaay too much fun with this ;)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[babylonsister]

2. Yes! And it's fun to watch/read! nt