{"id":15801,"date":"2009-11-25T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T23:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2009-11-25T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:44:08","slug":"iava-co-founder-phil-carter-hit-by-gitmo-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15801","title":{"rendered":"IAVA co-founder, Phil Carter, hit by Gitmo bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you who were around TAH last year, might remember that TSO tore up the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America “scorecard”<\/a> of the Senate which was created and manipulated to make us believe that Barack Obama was better for veterans than John McCain. Then TSO found that one of the co-founders of IAVA<\/a>, Phil Carter, was the Obama campaign’s veteran advisor, and I busted the IAVA trying to cover up that fact<\/a> when TSO exposed them. <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, Phil Carter was also the guy who came out to meet Matthis Chiroux<\/del> Liam Madden when Chiroux<\/del> Madden delivered IVAW’s list of demands to the Democratic National Convention in Denver last year. In addition to the “scorecard” scam and stroking the IVAW, Carter was working for the Obama Campaign while he wrote a regular column at the Washington Post’s Intel Dump<\/a>. Phil Carter parlayed those little stunts in service to Obama into a job position at the Pentagon, the Deputy Assistant secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs. <\/p>\n

Well, according to the New York Times<\/a>, Phil Carter is the latest casualty of the Guantanamo bus;<\/p>\n

Phillip Carter, who was named deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in April, resigned last Friday because of \u201cpersonal issues,\u201d a Pentagon official said. Mr. Carter could not be reached for comment and no other reasons were given for his departure.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carter, 34, a lawyer and an Army adviser to the Iraqi police in Baquba in 2005 and 2006, was in charge of veterans outreach in President Obama\u2019s 2008 campaign.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carter\u2019s departure comes as the administration has acknowledged that it will not be able to close the prison by Jan. 22, the self-imposed deadline Mr. Obama announced immediately after taking office.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carter has also left in the middle of the administration\u2019s efforts to prosecute some of the Guant\u00e1namo detainees and find a location in the United States to house perhaps 50 to 100 terrorism suspects indefinitely. The Cuba prison now has 215 detainees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noah Schachtman <\/a>writes;<\/p>\n

I just got off the phone with Carter. \u201cI know this is a Washington cliche, but sometimes the cliches are true,\u201d he tells me. \u201cI made this tough decision for personal reasons, even though I loved the job and the work we were doing. Hopefully I\u2019ll have the chance to serve again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Phil, everyone else lies about “personal issues” but in your case it’s true – just you. This on the heels of Greg Craig’s personal issues<\/a>. I hope Carter feels that all of his underhanded misuse of his veteran status was worth it. I’ll be watching to see what job he scores in the 2012 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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