Meeting RFK, Jr.

                                           

RFK, Jr, [Then and Now] {Photo: Tablet Magazine}

I've been encouraged to write about my experiences with Political and Military luminaries in my formative years.

During those moments, I was merely the offspring of my well-connected parents (Mom, a NYC Socialite, Dad, a Career Army officer), or, a friend of a friend who was inside those circles.  Over the years, I'd meet famous politicians/presidents, political appointees, generals and admirals, CIA and DIA leadership, Movie Stars and Entertainers, Authors, and Shadow Government leaders.  In retrospect, it all seems extraordinary, but, during those meetings, they were just meetings which were interesting, slightly educational, and fun events on which to reflect.

My introduction to the RFK family, and RFK, Jr (when he was about 12 years old) came about via two sources.  The first through a college roommate in 1965, and later, in 1967 through the gal I was then dating.                          

             Hickory Hill

My college roommate's sister worked for newly-elected Senator Robert F Kennedy, so, with his sister's access, we would attend an occasional social event at the RFK residence (Hickory Hill) in Langley, Virginia [just down the street from the CIA - where I would, a few years later spend considerable time in the 1980s)]. 

Ethel Kennedy

Later, following my graduation from Chapel Hill in 1966, I attended an occasional RFK social event in 1967 through the gal I was then dating.  Her two room-mates worked for Bobby and Ethel who were the growing celebrities in DC, holding numerous gatherings with eclectic guest lists.  One room-mate was Bobby's Senatorial Aide (a lawyer), arranging political and social connections, with many a journalist and photographer attending.  The other was Ethel's Social Secretary - the keeper of all RFK secrets.  In Washington in that era, these soirées were the political connection mechanism, so anyone aspiring to political ascendency was certain to attend.  

[While he lived at Hickory Hill, Robert Kennedy became the US Attorney General in 1961; a US senator in 1965; and a presidential candidate in 1968.]

Now, the Kennedy families knew how to party, and in Bobby's massive living room, there was a Juke Box positioned with an extensive collection of pop music - designed to frustrate hand-held tape recorders, enabling free form gossip and deal-making (not so different from today's political events). 

Robert Kennedy loved animals, particularly dogs - and Newfoundland dogs.  His favorite was Brumus - weighing in at about 175 pounds; he frequently accompanied the Senator to his office.  There was at least one other Newfoundland, and several other breeds wandering about the house, mingling with the guests and keeping an eye on the kids.  The kids all made the rounds with the guests, and were then shunted upstairs to their bedrooms where they would retire from the evening excitement.

Of course, there were strict rules for attendance at these events.

1) Attendance was by name invitation only

2) Security guards were casually dressed, on the lookout for interlopers.

3) All guests were restricted to the first floor living room 

RFK Family

4) No one was allowed to take photos of the Kennedy kids

5) No one was to go upstairs.

The Kennedy families were known for their prolific families, and Bobby and Ethel produced 11 kids, all of whom could be identified by the Kennedy buck teeth (must be something in Boston water).  

At one of these visits [routine and party] I had occasion to meet young Robert, Jr, a pleasant young fellow about 13 years old.  I doubt he would remember me, although I would likely be able to identify him now.

During these parties, which might go on well into the night, guests were quite well engaged, and journalists and photographers were eager to capture iconic photos of all the guests and luminaries of the era.  It was the way Washington worked back then, and likely still does. 

[With luck, the photographers might get a photo of the RFK herd.]

At one of these events, an enterprising [but rather stupid] photographer, decided to sneak up the staircase to capture photos of the kids. He assumed he would be the hero of the news world, and Kennedy kids' photos were quite profitable due to the insistence on privacy by all Kennedy members following the JFK assassination.

RFK on the Staircase

 [Who would have guessed that a journalist photographer would engage in nefarious affairs.] 

He would be the hero of the news world, and Kennedy kids photos were rare, particularly after the murder of Senator Percy's daughter in her bedroom in the Percy house.

[Brumus' Breed ]

Now this enterprising fellow had made it halfway up the staircase, camera in hand, at the ready, to take lots of photos, when he heard a growl above him.  There at the top of the stairs was perched an enormous black Newfoundland dog with bared teeth; 

the photographer carefully turned to descend the stairs, only to encounter Brumus, an equally enormous Newfoundland, also growling and with bared teeth.  

Approached from above and below, there was no escape from certain "death by Newfoundland", creating a situation in which the photographer somehow lost control of his bladder.

It was then that he noticed one of the Security Guards motioning for him to continue his descent, past Brumas, and hopefully into the safety of the Security Guard.  To his great relief, Brumas did not eat him; but, to his embarrassment, the entirety of the guests had emerged from the Living Room to witness this ordeal - which remained "unpublished" by the Media.  However, the Media was thus warned that such violations of the Rules would not be tolerated. 

The photographer was subsequently banned from any other event in Washington, and was reportedly shunned by his colleagues. 

Ed Note:

This is one of the numerous "luminaries I've met" stories I will include in my up-coming book - which I may actually complete at some point in the foreseeable future.  Sometimes the circumstances of the meeting are, by themselves, quite interesting - but they expose the luminaries as just ordinary folks, like you and me.

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FOONOTE:

Reviewing the assassination of ROBERT F KENNEDY, Sr.  

After winning the California primary, shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel pantry; the murder occurred following RFK's successful campaign in California's primary elections; he was the leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate. He died the following day.

Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, was accused of shooting Kennedy as he walked through the restaurant kitchen.  The reason given was in retaliation for RFK's support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. 

[Oddly, Robert's brother, JFK, was assassinated because he was demanding twice yearly inspections of Israel's nuclear development as it was leading to nuclear weapons.  (Was the RFK assassination another Mossad False Flag op - to conveniently prop up a Palestinian as the assassin?)] 

Sirhan was arrested, tried, and convicted, but the Kennedy family demanded that Sirhan not be sentenced to death since it was obvious he was not the shooter, 

[Similarly, in the JFK assassination, the shooter was certified to be other than Lee Harvey Oswald (a US Navy Intelligence under-cover operative)].

1) Analysis of an audio recording of the shooting made by Stanislaw Pruszynski and forensic expert Philip van Praag indicated that at least 13 shots were fired.

2) Van Praag said the audio recording revealed there were at least two instances in which the time between shots was shorter than humanly possible, and different resonances; thus  there was more than one gun.

3) Witnesses claimed there were multiple bullet holes in the door frames of the pantry [which were later destroyed]. "There were too many bullets; you can't fire 13 shots out of an 8-shot gun".

4) Kennedy's wounds indicated his assailant had stood directly behind him, 

5) But. Witnesses said Sirhan was facing west, 3 feet from Kennedy,

6) Kennedy was moving eastward through the pantry. 

7) Sirhan approached as Kennedy was turning to his left, facing north, exposing his right side, which was away from Sirhan.

8) Thomas Noguchi, Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for LA County, stated the fatal shot was behind RFK's right ear had been fired at a distance of one inch!

More Forensic Evidence:

In 1975, a panel of seven experts in forensics found that the three bullets that hit RFK were all fired from the same gun, but there was no match between those bullets and Sirhan's revolver. 

An internal police document concluded that 

"Kennedy and Weisel bullets {were} not fired from same gun" and "Kennedy bullet was not fired from Sirhan's revolver."

Sirhan's defense attorneys filed a 62-page brief asserting that a bullet used as evidence to convict Sirhan was switched with another bullet at the crime scene. The brief claims that this was done because the bullet taken from Kennedy's neck did not match Sirhan's gun. [duplicating the circumstances of the Reagan assassination attempt by HInkley]

Eyewitness John Pilger asserted there must have been multiple gunmen since the pistol claimed to have been used by Sirhan held only 8 rounds, and a total of 13 rounds were fired from two different caliber weapons - neither of which belonged to Sirhan. 

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SAN DIEGO (08/27/2021) 

Sirhan Sirhan {Fall Guy}
[55 years in prison because
he was a Palestinian!]

 

— California’s parole board voted to free Robert F. Kennedy’s (accused) assassin after two of RFK’s sons said they supported releasing him and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars. 

But the governor ultimately will decide if Sirhan Sirhan leaves prison.

[Does this sound like the official government discrepancies explaining the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Ohio?]

 

Bogus Tax Bill Follows Bogus Alabama Election

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By: Ron Ewart

More news on the bogus Tax Bill process.

The RepubliCrats are seeking a way to kill it before they take their Christmas Recess, so, having succeeded with the GOP/DNC collusion to give Sessions' seat to a Democrat, the end-game now continues.

As Stalin noted:

"It is enough that the people know there was an election.  The people who cast the votes decide nothing.  The people who count the votes decide everything."

The Senate margin is now razor-thin, but, surprise -- McCain has suddenly taken ill and has taken up residence in Walter Reed Military Hospital and will be "unable" to vote on the Tax bill; that "brain cancer" thing is a terrible burden.  

We salute the good senator since most people enduring brain cancer  deteriore quickly and have long since passed away, but, he seems spry as a new rooster.  

Is it cancer, or just a deformed brain.

So, essentially, the Bill will now take one of two paths:

1) It will fail to pass because the GOP now has no clear majority

2) In order to pass, the Bill will have to undergo considerable compromise with the Democrats, and the newly unacceptable Tax Bill will be sent over to Trump for signature.

-- Either way, we lose!

Pass or not, both Parties will walk away with plenty of pork, and the tax breaks we anticipated will now be corrupted so that deductions and credits will be replaced with new scales and add-ons.  It looks as if the AMT [Adjusted Minimum Tax] has already crept back into the Bill, and we're certain many of the tax hikes buried in ObamaCare will be revived.

You jerks in Congress
screwed up my Tax Reform

The end result will be that both Parties will then attack Trump for HIS inability to get the Tax Bill through as promised in his campaign.

This will annoy the voters, and distract the voters from the current scandals implicating Schumer for his involvement in sex scandals, and the overwhelming evidence being presented indicating the absolute corruption of Deep State politicians now resigning in noticeable numbers.

Note to Congress and the Senate:

2018 is an election year, 

and we'll identify and evict you bastards who sabotaged this tax bill!

Draining the Swamp is tough business;

I'd suggest to Mr Trump that he speed up the process with a little napalm.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

Hillary Dropping Out?

Will Hillary's Seizures affect voter confidence?

Here's an interesting rumor [unconfirmed, as yet].

Problem #1:  

Hillary had what appeared to be a seizure [video attached] during a photo op on 21 July 2016.  She quickly recovered, passing it off as a "brain freeze" from her drink, while her staff said she was just making fun of people with seizures.

Noteworthy is the concern of foreign government intelligence analysts who scrutinize every word, every movement, every health indicator of world leadership candidates to interpret their health, and particularly their mental health.  In this case, Hillary's mental health falls into question, creating a serious breach of confidence in her possible role as a world leader.  

-- Will she be capable of handling that 3:00 am call if she's in the midst of a seizure?  

-- Will she make a rational decision with her thumb on the nuclear missile launch button?

-- Will she be able to talk on the Red Phone if she's stumbling around the Lincoln Bedroom?

Is she mentally stable?
Ask the Secret Service.

Problem #2:

Apparently all the "polls" the DNC has been publishing about how overwhelmingly popular Hillary is doing with potential voters of either Party have been as bogus as we've presumed.

Turn-out for Hillary event;
one busload works if you crop the image

As we've observed, we've seen very few wide angle shots, either still or video, of Hillary's campaign events.  

Each image or video has been closely cropped to show a bunch of people [rarely more than 20] jammed together behind her -- with many appearing to be completely bored [perhaps because their pay for attending is so little].

Astute reporters who have attended the airport rallies have noted that the only crowds awaiting Hillary's plane consisted of airport crews on-hand to service her plane, plus a limousine waiting to take her to meet with donors.  Other than that, the airfields have been empty  of "supporters".

Speculation has been that the voting stations through which she was awarded the number of delegates required for her nomination were equipped with Soros voting machines, which oddly, awarded Bernie a paucity of votes, with overwhelming numbers for Hillary.  

The bewildering aspect of that voting was that exit polls reflected overwhelming support for Bernie.  

Could those machines have been rigged?

Well, by golly; it appears there was more than just rigging going on, and the Wicked Witch of the South, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was outed on 23 July 2016 in the Wikileaks dump of damning emails.  Now, Debbie is under fire, by Bernie and many others, to resign; it couldn't happen to a more appropriate person.

Now, as for rigging, we've seen it at its best in northern Virginia where voting sites had two machines, one for GOP and one for Democrat voters.  Strangely, the GOP machine at many sites was not functional, so all GOP registered voters had to vote using the Democrat-designated machine, which had only circles for two candidates:  Hillary or Bernie.  Since all GOP ballots were read dead-center, only the two of the five GOP candidates whose names appeared in the center of the ballot received votes.

A poll watcher at one location advised that a Spanish speaker caught a "volunteer interpreter" handing out Democrat ballots, instructing Latin voters that they "... have to use this [Democrat] ballot, and vote for either one."  They were not offered the GOP ballot, even when they requested one.  [The other poll workers had the "interpreter" removed, and filed charges against her, but we have to assume this practice was not unusual in the Primary.]

But, now we come to an interesting juncture in the election process.

The DNC has been gauging how Hillary can fare in this election, and their estimates are pretty grim, particularly in light of Wikileaks publication of a massive number of Hillary emails [which were intercepted most likely by Russian/Chinese/Mexican/Serbian/German/British/French/Swaziland Intelligence services.

It appears they fear Hillary is easily the most hated and distrusted candidate in the 21st Century, and that her chances of winning the election -- until two days ago -- were moderate to slim.  

But then, there appears to have been an Act of God.  

In the midst of an interview, Hillary appears to have had an epileptic fit during which her eyes glazed over, her head twisted and bounced, and she looked a bit crazy, causing political observers to presume that this medical malady was not one we'd like to see in a President who had her finger on the Nuclear Missile Button.
[Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC Delegate) moves in from behind to perform damage control and get Hillary back into human form before the alien insider her becomes visible]

Rest assured that our potential adversaries, the Chinese and the Russians, ISIS, Mexico, and Swaziland, along with our current allies [we can't think of any nation we can still call an ally at this point though] would interpret this medical incident as a positive.  

They all like to know that the US President, who is capable of initiating World War 3, is of sound mind and body.

Some may recall Hillary's "covert action" a while back where she commandeered a Military Attache aircraft and directed it to fly her to a remote spot in Iran for a covert meeting with Iran's leader -- the purpose being for her to proclaim that she had reached a secret agreement favorable to the US, and on which she could later claim success and run for President.  

Unfortunately, the plane was shot down, with the entire crew killed or captured, to include a Navy SEAL officer  [Commander Price] escorting her [he was later listed as having committed suicide in Afghanistan].

No one is sure who shot her plane down; the Israelis or the Iranian opposition; in any event, she somehow ended up in an Israeli hospital while the State Department/News Media announced she had the flu, had fallen, and had a concussion.



Interestingly, the Israelis nursed her to health and shipped her back to New York where she was transferred to a local hospital to ".. treat her flu and concussion."

But, we digress.

The DNC conundrum now is that Hillary is damaged goods.  [And Wasserman is destroyed.]

Valerie Jarrett is rumored to be staging Hillary's withdrawal based on "health issues" and may even openly refer to "epilepsy" -- without mentioning the head injuries Hillary suffered in the plane wreckage.  

Shotgun Joe

The template here is that Hillary will gracefully withdraw as a "fallen warrior", exit Stage Left to pre-recorded cheers and adulation, after which the DNC will announce that Joe Biden will graciously accept the nomination in Hillary's place.

That, of course, has been the fall-back position for the DNC from the beginning of this campaign, since Joe can be counted on to do what he is told.  And the Trump campaign organization hasn't had time to gather the dirt on Joe the Clown.  But, make no mistake; Joe is no more stupid or incompetent than W was.  Both are bright, accomplished fellows, but both have operated under severe threats by The Establishment mechanism, which dictates policy to both Parties.


Nonetheless, the GOP would be ecstatic to have Biden as the DNC candidate it could quietly support him in order to keep Trump out of the Oval Office.  If the GOP can defeat Trump by quietly backing Biden, they can continue taking all the bribes and perks they can handle, and go back to the "same old, same old", the constituency be damned!
[Impossible! you say; well, for example, in the 2010 Nevada Senate election, the GOP actively campaigned for that Evil-Doer, Harry Reid, whom the GOP officially and publicly hated, but they nonetheless threw every resource available against Sharon Angle to reelect Harry.]

Of course, once in office, there's no telling what Joe might do; and he still carries a grudge against the Clintons for their sabotage and smear campaign against him in earlier campaigns.  

Why, Joe just might appoint an Attorney General capable of taking the FBI investigations and evidence and prosecuting both Hillary and Bill, and shipping them both off to prison for 25 years.

Stranger things have happened.

Could Joe win the election?

Possibly.

He'd be much harder to beat than Hillary.

Trump's Revolution

The French dealt with their Elites with the Guillotine

This is another in our series of guest posts.

We look for excellent analyses and reproduce them 

to extend their reach as far as possible.

This one is from the Wall Street Journal  

by Peggy Noonan [25 FEB 2016]

We’re in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening. Journalists and politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out of winning nowhere, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in Ohio. But in my experience any nonpolitical person on the street, when asked who will win, not only knows but gets a look as if you’re teasing him.

Trump, they say.

I had such a conversation again Tuesday with a friend who repairs shoes in a shop on Lexington Avenue. Jimmy asked me, conversationally, what was going to happen. I deflected and asked who he thinks is going to win.“Troomp!” He’s a very nice man, an elderly, old-school Italian-American, but I saw impatience flick across his face: Aren’t you supposed to know these things?

In America now only normal people are capable of seeing the obvious.

But actually that’s been true for a while, and is how we got in the position we’re in.

Last October I wrote of the five stages of Trump, based on the Kübler-Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Most of the professionals I know are stuck somewhere between four and five.

But I keep thinking of how Donald Trump got to be the very likely Republican nominee. There are many answers and reasons, but my thoughts keep revolving around the idea of protection. It is a theme that has been something of a preoccupation in this space over the years, but I think I am seeing it now grow into an overall political dynamic throughout the West.

There are the Protected and the Unprotected.
The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.

The Protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful—those who have power or access to it.

They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created.

Again, they make public policy and have for some time.

I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but let’s stick with the Protected.

They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they’ve got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them—in Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels, significant figures in the European Union—literally have their own security details.

Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They’re insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.

Refugees: No women, no children

One issue obviously roiling the U.S. and western Europe is immigration.

It is THE issue of the moment, a real and concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between governments and their citizens.

It is of course the issue that made Donald Trump.

Britain will probably leave the European Union over it.

In truth, immigration is one front in that battle, but it is the most salient because of the European refugee crisis and the failure of the protected class to address it realistically and in a way that offers safety to the unprotected.

If you are an unprotected American—one with limited resources and negligible access to power—you have absorbed some lessons from the past 20 years’ experience of illegal immigration. 

You know the Democrats won’t protect you and the Republicans won’t help you. Both parties refused to control the border. 

The Republicans were afraid of being called illiberal, racist, of losing a demographic for a generation. The Democrats wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic vote.

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Many Americans suffered from illegal immigration—its impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that the rule of law was collapsing. But the protected did fine—more workers at lower wages. No effect of illegal immigration was likely to hurt them personally.

It was good for the protected. But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.

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The unprotected came to think they owed the establishment—another word for the protected—nothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.

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Mr. Trump came from that.

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Similarly in Europe, citizens on the ground in member nations came to see the EU apparatus as a racket—an elite that operated in splendid isolation, looking after its own while looking down on the people.

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Not the daughter of an EU official

In Germany the incident that tipped public opinion against the Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy happened on New Year’s Eve in the public square of Cologne.

Packs of men said to be recent migrants groped and molested groups of young women. It was called a clash of cultures, and it was that, but it was also wholly predictable if any policy maker had cared to think about it.

And it was not the protected who were the victims—not a daughter of EU officials or members of the Bundestag.

It was middle- and working-class girls—the unprotected, who didn’t even immediately protest what had happened to them. They must have understood that in the general scheme of things they’re nobodies.

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What marks this political moment, in Europe and the U.S., is the rise of the unprotected. It is the rise of people who don’t have all that much against those who’ve been given many blessings and seem to believe they have them not because they’re fortunate but because they’re better.

You see the dynamic in many spheres. In Hollywood, as we still call it, where they make our rough culture, they are careful to protect their own children from its ill effects. In places with failing schools, they choose not to help them through the school liberation movement—charter schools, choice, etc.—because they fear to go up against the most reactionary professional group in America, the teachers unions. They let the public schools flounder. But their children go to the best private schools.

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This is a terrible feature of our age—that we are governed by protected people who don’t seem to care that much about their unprotected fellow citizens.

And a country really can’t continue this way.

In wise governments the top is attentive to the realities of the lives of normal people, and careful about their anxieties. That’s more or less how America used to be. There didn’t seem to be so much distance between the top and the bottom.

Now is seems the attitude of the top half is: You’re on your own. Get with the program, little racist.

Social philosophers are always saying the underclass must re-moralize. Maybe it is the overclass that must re-moralize.

I don’t know if the protected see how serious this moment is, or their role in it.

The Most Plausible Explanation For The 10 Riverine Sailors Captured By Iran

Riverine Crew as guests of the Iranian Navy

We are pleased to publish this analysis of the Iranian Navy's capture of 

US sailors by our irascible old friend and fellow Administration critic and 

malcontent, Tom Lipscomb.  Tom is most notable for his excellent reporting, 
but of late,  for being banned from FaceBook for his frequent irreverent 
and politically-incorrect commentary which was offensive to many on 
an equal opportunity level.

Click here for original story [American Thinker]

I have heard separately from two experts, both high ranking Marines, one on active duty and the other working in DC at a foundation, the following.
 When I pressed them on the Fars News Service statement from Iran that the 10 personnel captured on the two US vessels were all Marines, they countered:

No, they are part of a Rivierine Squadron based in San Diego. Further they are support crews for SEAL missions from the US Navy and highly trained. The Iranians probably mistook “Riverine” for “Marine” in doing the story.

So that explains several things. 

Why the captured sailors were so much more fit than the average sailor these days, and how a woman could be among them. While not Special Ops personnel directly engaged, they have to be extraordinarily fit and well-trained, as indeed these sailors appear to be.

It also raises the question as to whether they had been on a mission ferrying SEALS somewhere. 
One must understand that small craft “belly bumping” has been going on all over the Gulf for decades. 

There are Standard Operating Procedures [SOP] for numerous levels of possible engagement, including being swarmed and overcome. 

They don’t have to include vainglorious responses like getting all your people killed resisting being taken prisoner by other ships with more firepower.



The young Lieutenant commanding the mission, covered in this Chicago Tribune story appeared totally composed in making that statement of  “confession,”  probably because that was exactly the statement he was supposed to make, according to one of those SOPs at Fifth Fleet that had been set up for the alternative scenarios.
 

So any notion that malfeasance by the officers and crews of these two vessels is most unlikely. 



Also unlikely is any notion that with the multiple communications channels of Special Ops vessels and multiple navigation aids anyone on board them got lost, was without communications, or drifted while doing repairs anywhere near the Fars Islands. 

Washington Post

Look at a map. 

The course from Bahrain to Kuwait is not only direct, it is almost directly N-S and given the shallow draft capability of these vessels, both boats could have proceeded with the Arabian coast in sight the entire time.



So how did they get more than 70 miles and 90 degrees off their course, (some “short cut”) which at their speeds of more than 40 mph would have taken over an hour one way, and fall into the 12 mile limit of the Farsi Islands claimed by Iran?



In short, they didn’t.



Fifth Fleet knew exactly where they were at all times, just as it knows exactly where all the other NATO vessels, which practically pave the Persian Gulf these days are. And they had the option to back them up with air and sea power if they were allowed to.



If the American people were not suffering from an incompetent and incurious press and media, some of these discrepancies would have come to light and been subject to public debate. 

One would think the questions remaining over what are now the clear lies about Benghazi would excite some editorial interest.



The explanations pouring out of Obama’s lying Administration spokespersons from the Secretary of Defense to the Secretary of State simply do not stand the light of day. 

In fact they insult the intelligence of any knowledgeable citizen with military experience.

But one thing is clear. Secretary of State Kerry was a much better liar about his small boat riverine actions in Vietnam than he is in explaining what was going on with our riverine sailors in the Persian Gulf.

SpookdBlog Editorial Note:

Donning our Tin Foil Conspiracy Cap, which has been consistently accurate on all things Benghazi, we'll speculate that this highly publicized capture of US sailors by the Iranian Navy, without a visible reaction from nearby US Naval vessels from the Sixth Fleet, was staged, much the same as the attack on the Benghazi Consulate was staged to capture the US Ambassador and trade him for the Blind Sheik.

Wc make this allegation based on the series of covert attempts by this Administration to resurrect positive relations with Iran.  Keep in mind Obama's persistent efforts to befriend Iran, which included the now infamous "nuclear deal", the secret meetings in Muscat in 2013 -- which followed 19 months of negotiations among the six major world powers and Iran, leading to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed on 14 July 2015.  

We also have noted the large number of Iranians [and Muslim Brotherhood members] in this Administration, to include Huma Abedin [Hillary's closest advisor] linked to the Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood [interestingly, all references to her linkage to Iran and to the Muslim  Brotherhood appear to have been purged from the Internet]; and, of course, Valerie Bowman Jarrett [Obama's puppeteer], born in Shiraz, Iran.   We somehow think these folks might have influenced Oval Office decisions to embrace Iran.

And, last but not least, we recall Hillary's role, in which she visited Egypt with Huma, and set off riots and protests against her linkage, via Huma, with the Muslim Brotherhood.  However, the most interesting link in this puzzle is Hillary's "covert" flight to western Iran in late 2012, reportedly to meet with President Ahmadinijad in Ahvaz and Ayatollah ali Khamenei to discuss Iran's nuclear program.  As in all poorly planned operations, Hillary's plane crashed, killing her SEAL escort [listed as a suicide in Afghanistan].  While she recovered in a MidEast hospital, her cover story was that she had the flu, fell, and had a concussion.  She was later spirited into a US hospital and with great fanfare, released with her "double" making PhotoOp appearances for show.

Bottom line:  We believe the capture of the US sailors was a staged event to enable the Administration to lift the sanctions on Iran and return the $1.4 Billion in seized Iranian assets.  We'll report more as this tale unfolds.

See also: Calling BS on the official story of the Iranian capture of two US riverine boats