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My deepest sympathies to the families of these brave men.

And may we rain hell down on the bastards who did this.

The calm before the storm...

There will be hell to pay alright.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s...mbush-151539401.html

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Graham and Schumer said they had been unaware of the large U.S. presence in the country and said Congress needs more information on what could become a long and open-ended involvement.

"I didn't know there was 1,000 troops in Niger," Graham said on NBC's Meet the Press. "This is an endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time and geography," he added. "You've got to tell us more and he [McCain] is right to say that."

These assholes are so full of shit. Graham is a sitting member of the SASC and he's claiming ignorance... What the hell did they think an active combatant command was doing...sitting around in Germany and watching movies?

A giant chunk of US activity in Africa is open source, from that whole idiotic Kony affair, dealing with the problems in Mali & Burkina Faso, the ebola problem in Sierra Leone/Liberia, all while keeping tabs on Boko Haram and their wave of killings AND then we've got Chinese corporations and military roaming all over the place currying favors and paying bribes for influence throughout the region. Shit, that just covers the Western side of Africa...there's that whole al-Shabab problem and all the shit-stiring they've been causing throughout Kenya and Eastern Africa.

Irony – Rep Frederica Wilson Wrote Legislation Demanding DoD Policy That Framed Lethal Mission of Sgt. Johnson…
Posted on October 23, 2017 by sundance

Sometimes there’s a level of irony that goes beyond the normal boundaries of ordinary irony and simultaneously creates a tear in the space-time continuum of DC hypocrisy; this is one such example.

Representative Frederica Wilson, a devoted member of the professional grievance club, has been at the epicenter of a story surrounding the death of Sergeant La David Johnson in Niger ever since Wilson politicized the bereavement call of President Trump, and the bereavement of Sgt. Johnson’s widow, her constituent, Myeshia Johnson.

Representative Johnson has also claimed she was unaware of why we are carrying out military engagements in Niger, and has called the mission “President Trump’s Benghazi“.

Given that level of expressed outrage it might surprise people to know that it was Representative Frederica Wilson who personally constructed H.R. 3383 / S.1632, joint House and Senate legislation that directs the State Department and Dept of Defense to execute military missions in Niger. Yes, in 2016 Wilson demanded military campaigns in the same place Wilson claims not to know about in 2017.

From her own 2016 press release:Washington, D.C.– In a long-awaited victory, the U.S. House of Representatives today by a voice vote passed H.R. 3833/S. 1632, legislation introduced by Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (D-Florida) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) to help combat Boko Haram.

The measure directs the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense to jointly develop a five-year strategy to aid the Nigerian government; members of the Multinational Joint Task Force created to combat Boko Haram; and international partners who’ve offered their support to counter the regional threat posed by the insurgents.

[…] “Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to ISIS and continues to commit terrible acts of brutal violence against civilians in Nigeria as well as in Chad, Cameroon, and Niger,” said Senator Collins, who authored and originally introduced the bill. “Rep. Frederica Wilson was a willing and able partner in the effort to pass this bipartisan legislation, which requires a five-year strategy to pursue Boko Haram and will bolster U.S. efforts throughout the region. I urge the president to immediately sign this bill into law”, said Wilson.

[…] “Boko Haram captured my attention and the headlines when the terrorist group kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from their dormitory rooms 968 days ago. For most of the world, the Chibok girls symbolize the horror that is Boko Haram, but the damage its members have wrought goes far deeper,” said Congresswoman Wilson.

Yes, if the irony wasn’t thick enough already, that press release is directly from the office of Representative Frederica Wilson. Additionally, Mrs. Wilson goes on to demand the U.S. take every possible action against Boko Haram to include their pursuit.

That means Representative Frederica “wacky” Wilson was a key and central figure in establishing congressional policy that directed the Department of Defense to carry out the very mission that killed her constituent Myeshia Johnson’s husband, Sergeant La David Johnson.

Sad and pathetic irony.

Enough said.

Our military deserves a better congress.


https://theconservativetreehou...johnson/#more-140284

As others have said, all these congressional assholes demanding investigations and acting surprised that we have forces in Niger are either duplicitous or incompetent.... And I'll accept the possibility that they're both. It's been open-source info for a long time that we've had folks there, just like it is with most other FID missions.

Makes me miss the good old days when it was okay to nail the hands of a senator to the door of the Senate.

I'm curious what the big deal is with this. Since when does the FBI investigate military actions/engagements, regardless of the outcome?

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Since when does the FBI investigate military actions/engagements, regardless of the outcome?

Since they stopped being a law enforcement agency and became the enforcement arm of the Democratic party.

The more I read, the more curious I become....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...d-50-terrorists.html

The four American special forces killed fighting in Niger were ambushed by 50 ISIS terrorists after they were stalled by a village elder, a survivor of the attack has revealed.

The group of 12 American forces had accompanied 30 Nigerien forces to an area about 85 kilometers north of the capital Niamey on a routine reconnaissance mission on October 3, when a dramatic new order came through to kill or capture a top ISIS target, officials told ABC News.

They were never able to track down the target, but the convoy of 6-8 vehicles, which included three American, stopped at the remote village of Tongo Tongo after the long night of patrolling, at 11am the next day, a survivor of the attack said.

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Representative Johnson ... has called the mission “President Trump’s Benghazi“.

So ..., what are you trying to tell us about Benghazi? Is there something the American people should know about what the Democratic Party knows? Hmm ....