{"id":79003,"date":"2018-04-21T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79003"},"modified":"2018-04-22T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T11:12:40","slug":"mike-pompeo-and-the-1st-gulf-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79003","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo and the 1st Gulf War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo is about to become President Trump’s next Secretary of State and today we hear from Splinter News<\/a> that a number of his bios on the internet claim that he was a veteran of Desert Storm. Pompeo was an Army captain and West Point grad from 1986 – 1991. At the time of the Gulf War, he was assigned to the 2d Squadron, 7th Cavalry with the 4th Infantry Division. 2\/7 Cav didn’t deploy to Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

Splinter News admits that none of the bios are directly quoting Pompeo.<\/p>\n

The question was first raised on Twitter Friday morning by Ned Price, a former CIA officer who served under President Obama, and who very publicly quit the CIA rather than work for President Trump, announcing the decision in a February 2017 op-ed in the Washington Post. Price pointed out that among other places, Pompeo\u2019s Wikipedia page suggests that he was deployed. It currently states that Pompeo \u201cserved with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division in the Gulf War.\u201d…The claim has also been repeated in numerous media outlets, either due to sloppy writing or outright incorrect information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, when I expose valor thieves for a false narrative, I only use direct quotes from the individual – not from the press, unless I can find photos of them wearing certain articles of clothing that condemn them. That’s pretty much what Splinter News has done, since no one can a find a direct quote from Pompeo where he claims to have been a Desert Storm Veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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