Awhile back during the whole uproar about waterboarding TA and a few other guys sited an Air Force pilot turned interrogator who "found" Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. He was on Olbermann and several other MSNBC shows. he detailed how being nice etc works and waterboarding is bad. Well maybe not. I posted, as did a few others that this guy was full of shit. Some posted CIA links etc...others gave opinions. I posted that it seemed far fetched that a pilot would be invloved, plus I'd heard the story of how they got the afore mentioned shitbag and interrogation wasn't part of it. The milblogs especially the one posted below do an excellant job of investigating "Stolen Honor" cases. It's good reading.
In what was probably a difficult search to replace the gaping void at VetVoice left by the passing of Brandon Friedman, the Angry Rakkasan, (known at TAH as Beaker), the lightweights left behind have settled on Matthew Alexander;
Mark Alexander wrote a book a while back advocating for treating terrorists in more friendly manner. Taking them to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard, whispering sweet nothings in their mite-infested ears - stuff like that. It was supposedly based on his experiences as an Air Force Officer and interrogator. The only problem is, Matthew Alexander isn’t his name. We don’t know what his name is because he won’t tell us. We can’t verify if he was an Air Force Officer or some homeless guy off the street who had an idea for a book.
Yeah, yeah, I know his name is supposed to sealed by court order to “protect” him - but you know what? No one in the military is an island.
Think if Jesse MacBeth had used a fake name and announced it before he went public and told his tales. How would we have been able to bust him? Find people in his unit who could tell us those things never happened. Essentially, that’s what I’ve done (with the help of an anonymous mole).
Apparently, no one in the Air Force has heard of this goofball or the cases he’s wrote about in his book. And the folks I’m getting this from are folks who would’ve worked with, trained with and known Alexander or whatever his name is today.
Here’s a quote from my mole;
One fact “Alexander” gives, in particular, would make him very well known in OSI - he claims to have been a Pave Low pilot prior to entering OSI… um, no. Not to say it couldn’t happen, but it would be VERY rare, and would be much remarked about.
I did a search of the OSI Agents and couldn’t find a single one with a secondary AFSC of 11 (pilot). First of all - why would you transfer from the one field that is most likely to get you a star to one that is least likely?
There is ONE OSI General. It’s just not done, you know what I mean?
And no one has heard of someone with this background. He should have attended the OSI Reserve conventions/whatever they’re called with people I know. They should know who he is. They have no idea. And no one recognizes his picture.
Uh-oh. The narrative begins to not fit. Good question, though - why would a guy in an organization called the AIR FORCE want to stop being a pilot?
In his book, Alexander claims that he was in Saudi Arabia in 2003 (can’t place him there, still, and that even narrows things more). He recounts one episode of walking through the Saudi desert with over a million dollars (page 122). OSI NEVER has that much baksheesh cash. NEVER. And he would not have been walking through the desert alone with it. EVER. It didn’t happen.
The single most important thing about Alexander’s claim to have been the one that “broke” the guy and got the information to find Zarqawi is this: Zarqawi WAS NOT LOCATED DUE TO INTERROGATIONS. Period. This is even mentioned on Wikipedia (even though they have this asshole’s name up there, too). It was a tip.
What I can tell you about his Huachuca claims, and his other interrogation claims, is this: he claims that his approach of building rapport is new and novel. [redacted] went through Huachuca in 2002 - and that’s what they taught him then. Alexander is taking advantage of the fact that most people have no idea of what goes on there to claim credit for something that he didn’t start.
So here’s a guy who arrives at the cutting edge of the politics of torture battle with just the right story to tell, as far as the Left is concerned. (And, oh, did I mention that besides working for Vote vets, Alexander works for George Soros?). We can’t check his story, we can’t even check his ID - for no good reason.
How many faux veterans have told you in a bar that their records are top secret? That’s usually the first thing they begin their stories with - like our Spooky 8 clown.
Can I be prove he’s lying? Nope…but all I need to do is plant a seed of doubt. You’ll remember that Rick Duncan/Strandlof was a diarist on VoteVets, so I guess this is a way to avoid that mistake again - hide your phony vet writers behind a court order and a name change.
There may be more to come on this douche, depending on the heat I get from Vote Vets - given their record, they’ll try to ignore this instead. Like they ignored the Rick Duncan story.
