{"id":11931,"date":"2011-11-07T19:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T00:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11931"},"modified":"2011-11-07T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:59:00","slug":"seal-team-6-sets-record-straight-amid-white-house-distortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11931\/seal-team-6-sets-record-straight-amid-white-house-distortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal Team 6 Sets Record Straight Amid White House Distortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a stunning recitation of the facts of the Bin Laden raid culled from interviews with Seal Team 6 members who participated in it, a former team leader (Pfarrer) says that the reason the Seals are breaking their customary code of silence is the gross misrepresentations propagated by the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What infuriated the Seals, according to Pfarrer, was the description of the raid as a kill mission. \u201cI&#8217;ve been a Seal for 30 years and I never heard the words &#8216;kill mission&#8217;,\u201d he said. \u201cIt&#8217;s a Beltway (Washington insider&#8217;s) fantasy word. If it was a kill mission you don&#8217;t need Seal Team 6; you need a box of hand grenades.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Add military terminology to the litany of policy subjects the president and his liberal cohort are jarringly unfamiliar with.\u00a0 \u201cBeltway fantasies,\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Note: A previous version of this post contained a broken hyperlink.\u00a0 Google &#8220;Bitter Seals tell of killing &#8216;Bert&#8217; Laden.&#8221;\u00a0 Great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a stunning recitation of the facts of the Bin Laden raid culled from interviews with Seal Team 6 members who participated in it, a former team leader (Pfarrer) says that the reason the Seals are breaking their customary code of silence is the gross misrepresentations propagated by the Obama Administration. What infuriated the Seals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,24,571,2941],"class_list":["post-11931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-liberal","tag-obama","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-seal-team-six"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11931"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}