{"id":89588,"date":"2019-08-06T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89588"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:47:20","slug":"what-a-tangled-web-act-ii-scene-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89588","title":{"rendered":"What a Tangled Web &#8211; Act II, Scene 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69849\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/No-I-will-not-share-it-with-you-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/No-I-will-not-share-it-with-you-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/No-I-will-not-share-it-with-you-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/No-I-will-not-share-it-with-you-385x333.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It wasn&#8217;t me! I was never there!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, well&#8230;. I wondered if there was some undiscovered something that might explain RADM Bolivar&#8217;s insistence on ignoring the findings of the courts martial business with Eddie Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t mistake my suspicions for anything but what they are: suspicions. Sometimes, someone&#8217;s behavior seems a bit extreme to me, and the appropriate question to ask is &#8220;Why?&#8221; And sometimes, suspicions simply don&#8217;t pan out. But sometimes they do.<\/p>\n<p>The attached article from Navy Times may have an answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staffers at her own Navy Region Southwest told Navy Times that she was reprimanded by Adm. Phil Davidson in 2017. That was confirmed by senior Pentagon officials who said it had been an open secret in the sea service.&#8221; &#8211; Article<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/08\/06\/before-she-handled-seal-war-crimes-cases-one-star-was-tied-to-fat-leonard\/\">https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/08\/06\/before-she-handled-seal-war-crimes-cases-one-star-was-tied-to-fat-leonard\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, she was reprimanded for it: reprimanded, but not asked for a reason for the Navy to continue to keep her employed. She\u00a0 did not, as the article says, solicit anything from Fat Leonard. Nevertheless, she accepted gifts from him, as did several members of her crew. And she knew better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acting as the Consolidated Disposition Authority meting out punishment in the wake of the Glenn Defense Marine Asia public corruption scandal, Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/03\/08\/fat-leonard-wrongdoing-not-a-definite-career-killer-for-navy-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">substantiated three of five misconduct allegations<\/a> against Bolivar and unnamed members of her crew on board the salvage vessel Salvor following a visit to the Malaysian port of Kata Kinabalu in 1998, according to records released to Navy Times following a Freedom of Information Act request.&#8221; &#8211; Article<\/p>\n<p>So is this glaring focus of hers on Gallagher a weird kind of payback? &#8220;Holier than thou&#8221; stuff doesn&#8217;t sit well, especially when one discovers that the &#8216;holier than thou&#8221; attitude is a facade, a false front, which hides some rather sordid stuff committed by The Holier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well&#8230;. I wondered if there was some undiscovered something that might explain RADM Bolivar&#8217;s insistence &hellip; <a title=\"What a Tangled Web &#8211; Act II, Scene 3\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89588\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a Tangled Web &#8211; Act II, Scene 3<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89589,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588\/revisions\/89589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}