VIDEO: Special Ops Veterans Demand Benghazi Answers

Members of the nonprofit group, Special Operations Speaks, are featured in a new video released this week in an attempt to keep up the pressure on the Obama Administration to come clean about what really happened in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012.

The release of the video comes almost six months after the attack of the U.S. Consulate by Islamic terrorists that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and computer specialist Sean Smith. In addition, however, it comes after Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. attempted to rewrite the history of what happened and after copies of emails obtained by one news organization proved President Barack Obama lied about the attacks.

Leading Special Operations Speaks’ effort to find out what really happened at Benghazi is Capt. Larry W. Bailey, the same retired Navy SEAL commander who recently endorsed my soon-to-be-published book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, by saying it exposes “an unconscionable cover-up” inside the U.S. military.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I encourage you to watch the video, share it widely and contribute to Special Operations Speaks so they can keep up the pressure on the White House. Thanks in advance!

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Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, a nonfiction book that’s available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. It chronicles the life and wrongful conviction of Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart. His second book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, is coming soon.

Ads Deserve Immediate Attention of Every American Voter

My friends at SpecialOperationsSpeaks.com ran two advertisements in The Washington Times this week.  Both deserve the attention of every American voter.

Click to download ad (pdf).

The first ad (above) features the names of more than 500 flag officers (i.e., retired admirals and generals) who endorsed Mitt Romney’s campaign for president and ran early this week.  The second ad (below) ran today in a 40-story special section of the newspaper and calls for an investigation of potential high crimes and misdemeanors related to “BenghaziGate,” the tragic and preventable series of events that took place Sept. 11, 2012, and resulted in the deaths of four Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.  Please download and share both ASAP!

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FYI:  The folks at Special Operations Speaks endorsed my book, “Three Days In August,” which chronicles the life and wrongful conviction of former Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart. To learn more about it, read this post on the SOS Noble Warriors webpage.

Bob McCarty is the author of “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice,” a nonfiction book that’s available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. His second book, “The CLAPPER MEMO,” is set for release this fall.

Special Ops Veterans’ Facebook Page Suspended

Mark Zuckerberg‘s social networking gurus at Facebook seem to think the men and women of Special Operations Speaks, who’ve spent much of their lives fighting on behalf of their fellow Americans do not deserve the freedom to exercise the rights guaranteed them under the First Amendment — at least, not when that exercise involves criticizing President Barack Obama days before an election about his mishandling of and lying about Sept. 11 events in Benghazi, Libya.

On Saturday, a Benghazi-focused meme (above) was posted on the organization’s website by Political Media Inc. President Larry Ward, the man who handles SOS social media and publicity efforts. It’s message: “Obama called the SEALs and they got Bin Laden. When the SEALs called Obama, they got denied.”

Twenty-four hours later, Ward was informed by Facebook monitors that he had violated Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities with the meme. As a result, the SOS account was suspended for 24 hours. At last check, the meme is back up on the SOS Facebook page.

Before the election next Tuesday, please consider donating to Special Operations Speaks and spread the word about how Obama denied assistance to people on the ground, including one U.S. ambassador and two former Navy SEALs, in Benghazi.

FYI: I applaud the guys at Special Operations Speaks for taking a courageous stand on this issue and also for endorsing my book, “Three Days In August,” which chronicles the life and wrongful conviction of former Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart. To learn more about the book, read this post on the SOS Noble Warriors webpage.

Bob McCarty is the author of “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice,” a nonfiction book that’s available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. His second book, “The CLAPPER MEMO,” is set for release this fall.

‘Three Days In August’ Endorsed by Special Operations Vets

On July 18, I announced that the leaders of a select group of Special Operations veterans had informed me that they had made a decision to champion efforts to bring about justice for two wrongfully-convicted soldiers about whom I’ve written much during the past three years. Today, they launched their effort online!

Simply click on the Noble Warriors tab near the top right corner of the Special Operations Speaks website and you’ll find links to several articles I’ve written about Kelly A. Stewart and Michael C. Behenna.

Stewart is the highly-decorated Green Beret combat veteran whose life story and wrongful conviction are chronicled in my book, “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice.”

Behenna is the Army Ranger officer about whom I have written and published more than 60 articles. He is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for killing Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda operative, in self-defense in Iraq in 2008.

I encourage you to visit the Special Operations Speaks website, click on the tab and share news about these two warriors who deserve better from the military justice system.

NOTE: “Three Days In August” is available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. Thanks in advance!

Special Operations Veterans Blast Barack Obama in New Video

Many of the same Special Operations veterans who helped derail Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as members of Swift Vets and POWs for Truth released a video today in which they blasted President Barack Obama and members of his White House staff for leaking national security secrets that put American troops in danger.

The video was released barely three weeks after I shared news about the launch of SpecialOperationsSpeaks.com, the website bearing the new group’s name, and the fact that leaders of the group had pledged to champion the causes of several wrongfully-imprisoned soldiers, including Michael Behenna, the Army Ranger officer about whom I’ve written dozens of posts, and Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart, the man whose life story is chronicled in my book, “Three Days In August.”

Please share this important video as often as you can before election day in November. Thanks in advance!

Bob McCarty is the author of “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice,” a nonfiction book that’s available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. His second book, “The CLAPPER MEMO,” is set for release this fall.

Soldiers’ Cases Grab Attention of Special Ops Vets in Battle Against Government ‘Gone Rogue’

Many of the same people who helped derail the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as members of Swift Vets and POWs for Truth are back in 2012 as members of Special Operations Speaks. As part of an effort to combat what one leader of the group describes as “a government that has gone rogue,” the group’s members have decided to champion the causes of two soldiers about whom I’ve written much over the past three-plus years: 1LT Michael Behenna and Sgt. 1st Class Kelly Stewart.

The good news came this morning in the form of an email from Beverly Perlson, founder of the pro-troops organization, The Band of Mothers, who had received the news from Larry Bailey, one of the leaders of Special Operations Speaks who is a retired Navy captain and also chairs the pro-military group, Gathering of Eagles.

Behenna is the Army Ranger officer about whom I have written and published more than 60 articles during the past three years. He is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for killing Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda operative, in self-defense in Iraq in 2008.

My most-recent post, American Warfighters Deserve Same Consideration as Taliban, offers details about Lieutenant Behenna’s case that will make you shake your head in disbelief.

Stewart is the highly-decorated Green Beret whose life story and wrongful conviction are chronicled in my book, “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice.”

Based on extensive interviews and never-before-published details taken from the actual Record of Trial, “Three Days in August” paints a portrait of military justice gone awry that’s certain to make your blood boil. The most-recent update on his case can be found here.

To learn more about Special Operations Speaks, visit the group’s website and/or read the post I published soon after the group’s launch early last month.

To offer support and/or keep up to date on both soldiers’ cases, visit DefendMichael.com and SaveThisSoldier.com.

*Note: The photo of Lieutenant Behenna above was shot prior to his deployment to Iraq when he was still wearing the gold bar of an Army second lieutenant.

Bob McCarty is the author of “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice,” a nonfiction book that’s available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. His second book, “The CLAPPER MEMO,” is set for release this fall.

Special Operations Vets Jump Into Presidential Politics

I received an important email forwarded to me today by retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. John Stewart, a friend of mine who lives in Beverly Hills, Fla.  It appears that the chief and his fellow members of the Special Operations community are getting ready to kick butt, take names and do whatever it takes to defeat Barack Obama in 2012.

The email message, originated by Dick Brauer, describes the establishment of a new organization, Special Operations Speaks,” to combat what he describes as “a government that has gone rogue.”

Brauer continues:

To put this in Air Force terms, our burgeoning organization (composed of honorably discharged Special Operations personnel from all the armed services plus their supporters) has started engines, taxied to the runway, and is about to “stroke the burners” as it takes off on a national effort to back Governor Romney for the Presidency of the United States.  Barrack Hussein Obama cannot be allowed another four years to continue his systematic and insidious destruction of our nation. If ever a Special Operations mission was needed, it is now!

We also welcome friends and neighbors who feel as we do, and we encourage them to lend weight and assistance to the SOS campaign.  Many of you will remember the effort by John O’Neill and his contingent of Swift Boat Veterans as well as SEAL CAPT (Ret) Larry Bailey’s Vietnam Veterans for Truth campaign; both were instrumental in defeating John Kerry’s bid for the Presidency.  Col George “Bud” Day (Medal of Honor) was equally effective in mobilizing the POWs to defeat Kerry and exposing him for his traitorous acts and his questionable service in Vietnam . We hope to have the same effect on Barrack Obama.  ALL of our military- conventional, active and reserves alike will benefit if we succeed, and with your help, we WILL succeed!

Current and ongoing actions: We are currently in the process of establishing an unaffiliated “Super PAC” to provide necessary funding to support our objectives. We are also currently preparing a press release that finalizes our Concept of Operations (draft attached), refines our campaign plan and, as our first “round fired downrange,” initiates a petition drive calling on Chairman Peter King of the House Homeland Security Committee to hold hearings on the leak that resulted in Dr Shakil Afridi being sentenced to 33 years in a Pakistani jail for helping the CIA find Osama Bin Laden. We feel that whoever in our Government leaked the information concerning Dr Afridi’s participation in this mission needs to face the consequence of their actions.”

Brauer goes on to highlight “Spiking The Ball,” a piece written by Larry Bailey and encourage recipients of the message to read the group’s Concept of Operations,” and get involved at www.SpecialOperationsSpeaks.com.

FYI:  Chief Stewart is the father of Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart whose life and wrongful conviction are chronicled in my book, “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice.”  I know he would appreciate it if you would join him in the fight to clear his son’s name.