UPDATE: I take it all back. Not a hero at all. Instead Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes appears to be a lying loser. Thanks Holmes. You’ve made an ass out of me by posing as a whistle blower when in reality you just wanted some fame.
He is the man who refused to follow orders to use his psy-ops on our representatives.
yes, he was reprimanded. Now that it’s out, maybe they can give him a medal.
UPDATE: Hold this designation……there appears to be controversy.
But there will also be an investigation. Two things to note:
Faced with a written order to make visits by high-ranking officials his top priority, Colonel Holmes sought advice from a military lawyer, Capt. John Scott, who agreed that using information operations “to influence our own folks is a bad idea, and contrary to IO policy,” Rolling Stone reported.
And after a 2007 Congresswoman had her bio spread everywhere she went…:
General Petraeus, then serving as commander in Iraq, pledged that future biographies of visiting legislators would be taken only from the members’ Web sites or from Congressional Quarterly.
From what I’ve read, Holmes collected the information. It was the using of information that made him uncomfortable.
We’ll circle back on this post as more information comes out.
I have some bad news for you… this guy is not a hero, he’s a dumbass, with a capital dumb. He was somehow seduced by the siren’s call of the author who took down Gen McChyrstal and he has so overstated what happenned, at the end of the day, he will not be the good guy.
As I understand it, he was asked to look at his visitors and find out what their attitudes were towards Afghanistan. He was then to identify potential areas by which his bosses could try and show why their mission was important and needed funding. My God, he spins this as if he was creating Powerpoint videos which would have in the background SEND US MONEY! or AFGHANISTAN GOOD. I mean, C’mon!
You will find out in the next week or so, he wasn’t ACTUALLY a Psyops officer and that peice of S*&t Hastings wasn’t smart enought to understand. The reality is this is all about a reporter that wants to continue in the limelight and a dumbass Texas Guard LtCol who is so way in over his head he might very well get bounced out of the service for misstating reality.
This guy is truly in a class all by himself, and I REALLY mean that! He takes trips into Afghan cities to take photos of he and his subordinate (who is also his girlfriend (probably) and his business partner, confirmed by him) He posts these same photos on his Facebook website (YGBSM!) and says he’s co-started a company and it’s a woman/minority owned business, when you have no contracts thats how you lead your pitch.
He claims he’s going to become a contractor doing StratComm’s for guess?? Wait for it.. Wait for it… the US government! Oh yeah, so the same military you have just allowed a reporter to try and trash, you actually think you are going to get contracts with? He has multiple pending investigations, he’s done in the military, Guard or whatever, and he will never get hired by the govt as a contractor. He will be the Home Depot night manager if he’s lucky.