Pentagon tells lawmaker not to air Green Zone video again (Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-NC)

[Barrett808]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Pentagon tells lawmaker not to air Green Zone video again
By Lisa Zagaroli

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon told a North Carolina lawmaker Tuesday that he couldn’t re-air a video he'd shot in Baghdad after accusations surfaced that he breached operational security in detailing enemy rocket attacks.

Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Republican, traveled to Iraq with other lawmakers for the first time on March 22. The video was the second incident stemming from that trip that has drawn unwanted attention to McHenry. Earlier, he was criticized for berating a guard in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone for not allowing him into a gym there because the congressman did not have the proper identification credential.

The new criticism stems from a video that was featured on his Web site last Friday. Shot in the Green Zone, it showed McHenry gesturing to a building behind him and saying that one of 11 rockets “hit just over my head.” Then he named two other places struck by the rockets.

On Monday, a veterans group called VoteVets.org accused McHenry of giving away intelligence information that could have aided terrorist organizations in targeting the Green Zone.

“The bottom line is that whoever launched that strike could take the information McHenry provided and use it to kill Americans in the Green Zone,” wrote Brandon Friedman, vice chairman of VoteVets.org, a veterans advocacy group that has called for troop withdrawal and promoted veterans for political office. “This is why professionals operating in a combat zone are trained not to reveal any battle damage after an attack.”

After Friedman’s posting, McHenry’s office pulled the video and sent it to the Pentagon for review.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/33077.html

[RamboLiberal]

1. I wonder if this a**hat got 3 soldiers killed

Story I saw in GD about a Colonel getting killed while exercising in embassy's gym.

Col. Stephen Scott....Scott, a member of the Huntsville Track Club and an avid runner, was on a treadmill in the U.S. Embassy's fitness facility Sunday when a mortar round crashed into the building, killing him and two other soldiers, King said.

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/120773255647960.xml&coll=1

[jgraz]

2. Once again: McHenry is 32. He needs to enlist.

Give him a call and ask him why he's not in Iraq fighting...

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[Supersedeas]

13. the chickenshit hawk doesn't have the guts--boot camp would reject his soft ass on day two

[jayfish]

3. I Know That It's Easy To Take Shots At A Puke Over This Hypocrisy...

but quite frankly, the civilian government does not take orders from the military.

Jay

[Ikonoklast]

4. In a war zone, they do

When outside the U.S., in a military zone, they better listen.

He's in Iraq. It still is a different country. He ain't nothin' there but another Puke polishing his war cred resume.

[mike_c]

5. it's not a war zone, it's a crime zone....

Let's be clear about that. "Protecting operational security" means aiding and abetting a crime against humanity.

[jayfish]

12. He's In A War Zone?

Right now?

Jay

[gatorboy]

6. If a Democrat had done this, Repubs would be yelling "traitor" straight to the rafters.

Anyone in the television media running this story?

[saigon68]

10. Actually the Bimbo Blondes at their party Organ Faux News would

Be screaming their lungs out.

[MidwestTransplant]

11. Not Faux you can bet

[ncteechur]

7. As a North Carolinian, I would like to apologize for the following people...

Patrick McHenry
Elizabeth Dole
Richard Burr
Jesse Helms
Lauch Faircloth

and that other creepy woman--Virgina Fox (??)

It seems that this bunch of boobs gives the impression that our entire state is filled with complete nincompoops. It is just not true. Anyway--I'm sorry.

[ms liberty]

9. Yes, Virginia Foxx...

I am ashamed to have to say that she's my Congressional critter, from th 5th district. Ugh.

[blm]

8. This can be used to get rid of McHenry. Even the GOPs in his district hate him but they're scared

of him - he's a Karl Rove Republican.

From what I've heard, many Republican politicos know he's gay even though most voters don't, but he has thugs keeping the politicos too nervous to use it to destroy him the way they would a Dem in that part of NC. It is REALLY red and REALLY religious.

[truthisfreedom]

14. If Patrick McHenry and John McCain were BOTH Democrats...

Faux news would begin captioning McCain's pictures with "John McHenry" several times a day.