1/ Short thread here. In light of the Admin's down-the-rabbit-hole strange misstatements about the location of the USS Carl Vinson...
- 2/ I want to re-up another weird and still unexplained thing that happened Friday night concerning the Pentagon.
- 3/ Late on Thurs night, @TheHill posted this story about the gigantic bomb the US mil dropped in Afghanistan: http://goo.gl/oKPXsC
- 4/ That article was notable for this strange, un-CENTCOM-like statement attributed to "a CENTCOM spokesman":
- 5/ Then Friday, CENTCOM put out a press release saying basically, 'Uh, that wasn't us." I've never seen anything quite like this from DOD:
- 6/ CENTCOM never explained who it was that gave that statement as if they were a spokesman...
- 7/ (We asked, they wouldn't say).
- 8/ Also, the odd "that wasn't our spokesman" release is not on the site where CENTCOM posts its press releases: http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/ …
- 9/ Also, look at the "Release Number" on the "that wasn't our spokesman" press release: 20170414-01...
- 10/ There is actually a CENTCOM Press Release coded with that number... but it's a totally different thing:
- 11/ So: now we've got a DOD statement that someone said things to a reporter that DOD disavows, but we don't know who the person was...
- 12/ Nor do we know the circumstances of why or how someone was pretending to be a CENTCOM spokesman for a day.
- 13/ And the release copping to this odd event is not publicly posted and it's coded with a release number that belongs to something else.
- 14/ This is mostly just weird. But (a) I've never seen anything like it before, and (b) DOD should explain the fake spox thing. OK, done.
