Air Force General blows whistle on Obama, but media deaf

Government corruption September 17, 2011 By: Jim Kouri



If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

"If an Air Force general blows the whistle on the Obama White House, does anyone in the media hear the corruption?"

A United States Air Force general is blowing the whistle on another alleged White House scandal, but few in the news media seem to be listening.

According to General William Shelton, the commanding officer of U.S. Air Force's space command, he was told to alter his testimony before the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Strategic Forces regarding an Obama White House attempt to award a defense contract to the Lightsquared firm.

Lightsquared is a high-tech company doing business in Virginia that's owned by billionaire Philip Falcone, an Obama friend and campaign contributor.

According to the National Legal and Policy Center, Phil Falcone had visited the White House and made large cash contributions to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Soon after, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted his LightSquared a highly unusual waiver that allows the company to build out a national 4G wireless network on the cheap.

Republican lawmakers say that after Falcon's visit, the Obama White House allegedly tried to push through a Lightsquared's proposed wireless network regardless of the objections emanating from military commanders who believed the project could disrupt key U.S. satellite systems.

At a hearing on Thursday, lawmakers on strategic forces subcommittee, especially the Republican chairman, Michael Turner, requested that the House Oversight Committee investigate if Falcone's company garnered any type of special treatment from the White House or from Obama appointees.

The hearing came after a report by a blogger on a news and commentary web site alleged that the Obama White House pressed General Shelton to downplay his concerns about the proposed Lightsquared system.

"Under extremely unusual circumstances, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently granted a company called LightSquared the right to use wireless spectrum to build out a national 4G wireless network. LightSquared will get the spectrum for a song, while its competitors have to spend billions," according to NLPC's Ken Boehm.

President Obama's underlings deny any wrongdoing, and officials at Lightsquared denied the charges that it is receiving preferential treatment from President Obama or his staff.

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that's the old "deaf" news.... they're either deaf or they'll answer later [after all the facts are in] or it's a while back so it's foggy now and they just can't remember.

you just never "score" a hit on these guys.

...and the press' lack of interest is underwhelming.

I absolutely hate the press, not counting how I'm lost all respect for them.

When we talk about the media, I'm surprised at how certain ones control the entire media. We have many alternate means of getting the news out so why does Obama's chosen few have a monoply?

Quote: Olivia wrote in post #3

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I absolutely hate the press, not counting how I'm lost all respect for them.

When we talk about the media, I'm surprised at how certain ones control the entire media. We have many alternate means of getting the news out so why does Obama's chosen few have a monoply?

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If the Whitehouse is built out of pig poo

and inhabited by lobotomized drunken traitorous satanists from hell

does it stink?

Not to the globalist Marxist media.

Ms Olivia speaks my very thoughts: I absolutely hate the press, not counting how I'm lost all respect for them.