“After all, if cursing were really a fireable offense in the military, every soldier, sailor, Marine, and Defense Department civilian would have to be sent home.” Indeed. All those responsible for the firing of Carolyn Stewart should themselves be fired. This is obviously yet another attempt to cover up how the Pentagon has fudged the data to fool the American people and make it appear as if the Islamic State is losing and falling back when in reality it is not.
“She Spoke Up About Cooked ISIS Intel. They Booted Her—for Cursing,” by Nancy A. Youssef, Daily Beast, May 9, 2016:
TAMPA, Florida — She worked on and off for five years identifying targets for the U.S. military’s Central Command.
And then, when, some believe, she spoke up about cherry-picked intelligence in the ISIS war, she was drummed out of her job—allegedly for cursing twice in the span of the year.
Those were just some of the surreal allegations thrown around last week in a Tampa law office conference room turned into a quasi-courtroom.
Had the case not involved the third-highest ranking person at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a two-star general, a military judge, and hours of testimony—all at a cost of thousands of dollars—it would have been hard to take seriously. Even with those high-ranking officials, at times it was hard not to do a double-take about what was happening.
After all, if cursing were really a fireable offense in the military, every soldier, sailor, Marine, and Defense Department civilian would have to be sent home.
The case suggested that, at CENTCOM, there are two wars being waged: one against ISIS and a separate internal fight between whistleblowers and commanders. This all came to the fore during a rare public hearing last Wednesday before the government appeals board, brought by a subordinate of Gregory Ryckman, the top-ranking civilian at CENTCOM’s Joint Intelligence office, known as the J2.
The woman at the center of the case makes a now-familiar allegation: that the same military officials who cherry-picked information about the ISIS war and downplayed the terror group’s rising threat also selectively picked information about her. The Pentagon inspector general now is investigating whether CENTCOM officials, including Ryckman, watered down assessments on the rising jihadist threat to comport with the White House.
The woman at the center of the controversy in this case, Carolyn Stewart, is a small person with a big voice. The Army veteran seemingly is demure at first glance, with shoulder-length light brown hair. But as soon as she speaks, it is clear she is not afraid to say exactly what she thinks.
She repeatedly prodded her lawyer throughout the day-long hearing about which questions to ask, which evidence to present, and which details to point out in her favor.
The hearing was a window into how allegations of toxic work environments, faulty reports, and bad leadership consumed the office tasked with leading CENTCOM’s intelligence gathering. At issue during the hours-long hearing was whether Stewart cursed at CENTCOM, and if she did curse, whether that created a hostile work environment.
“I went to other action officers to avoid Ms. Stewart,” one witness explained to the judge, in support of the decision to reassign her.
The hearing, held through a teleconference connecting DIA lawyers in Washington with a judge in Atlanta and the complainant in Tampa, had all the markings of a proper trial. Someone wore a robe and lawyers yelled out objections.
But one couldn’t help thinking it was like an episode of The Office. Those charged with helping target ISIS terrorists were instead obsessed with things like who “bitched out” whom. The government claimed she said it to another woman. Another witnesses said someone else said those words to Stewart.
It is worth noting that such debates were occupying a command post tasked with leading the war on ISIS. And yet the key issue of the time was how precisely Stewart handled a colleague telling her he would not adjust a target order.
“Did she toss the papers down or did she place them down?” a government lawyer asked a witness.
In the midst of the war against ISIS, the highest-ranking general in charge of intelligence gathering sat for hours waiting in a Tampa law office to testify for all of 15 minutes. The Defense Intelligence Agency chief of staff, the third-highest ranking member of that office, testified for hours over why she decided that a few curses could not be tolerated in an office that helped determine which suspected ISIS members should be targeted for death from above….

KrazyKafir says
America’s 5th column is staggeringly large.
Shane says
Obama has caused great damage to the USA militarily, economically, and morally and Shillary hope to complete the destruction of our country. I am serious that the left wants to destroy America and Western Civilization. Vote GOP in November!
Walter Sieruk says
About that brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS. Most people know that the head and chief of that is a man who goes by the name of al Baghdadi By contrast, what few people seem to know is that al Baghdadi is just a figurehead and a puppet rulers of ISIS. That the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else. Who that “someone else” has been exposed in the book entitled THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer. For on page 166 the author explains that “The ultimate commander of ISIS remains unseen by most of his followers, but he is not unknown. This commander is Satan himself… Satan moves across the earth ‘like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ [First Peter 5:8.] Therefore, the vicious jihadist thugs who compose ISIS are, in realty, vicious, malicious and deluded fools who are being use by Satan, as his stooges and tools, to inflict demonic murderous harm on humankind. So must so that those violent wicked and insanely deluded jihad savages who make up ISIS are like those callous characters described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. That teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” In addition, those malice-filled fiendish jihadists of ISIS are so very bloodthirstily, ruinous dangerous and murderous that they are similar to, in character, the hideous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood: ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Romans 3:15-17. [N.I.V.]
Jim Morris says
Awesome, Best use of adjectives I have read in a while. Thanks
Edward says
“That the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else.”
It’s a consorting group, in fact, that is based in a transcendental domain with terrestrial proxies (muslim’s and their liberal cohorts) taking care of ground level evil mandates!
From Ephesians 6:12 it can be considered its own Holy Bible’s Whistleblower with the most veracity in content. This Whistleblower cannot be fired!
“For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the principalities and the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world, the spirits of evil in the heavens.”
Against this organization our best deterrent is found in Ephesians 6:10-18 (“God’s Suit of Armor”) and its best vanguard come from Psalm 91 (“Full Trust in God.”)
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”…[ ]
Bill McKenzie says
The King of these locusts was the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, being chief governor as well in religious as civil affairs, such as was the Caliph of the Saracens [Muslims].
— Isaac Newton – Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (The rise of the Great False Prophet and the religion of Anti-Christ)
John Galt III says
Obama, Clinton and to some extent even the Bushes have destroyed the US Military, but then again, that was the general idea.
When I was in the US Army I more or less trusted my fellow EM’s and Officers – today – not a chance. Imagine a “black live matter” NCO and a commanding officer named Mohammed? How would you react to that situation?
Budvarakbar says
How about the Black Muslim jihadi that fragged the guys in Kuwait?, Maj Nidal Hassan at Ft Hood?, or a bunch of BLM cadets at West Point giving the NBP fist salute?
Everyone since Reagan have been in on the destruction of the military — the first dam bush by sending them into war and then not winning it — the klintoon regime by sacrificing military in Somalia (ala the putrid Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs) — then turning around and importing Somalian MUSLIMS faster than hell and then not hitting OBL when they had him – and then making a mockery of the US military by having them bomb aspirin factories in Sudan and empty mountain valleys in Afghanistan and the eff’n Bosnian war — helping the Muslims vs Europeans — then the dufus Bush 2 with the multiple deployments — destroying people’s lives and livelihoods – and playing the same old ‘Guns and Butter’ SH-IT from the Johnson Viet Nam days!
mortimer says
In an intense life-and-death environment, if the personnel didn’t curse ever, it would be surprising and they would be saints. It’s obvious this was a political hit.
Downplaying the threat of enemies either for the Chief Executive or for the dumb voters creates a country where decisions are made without accountability.
Those who suppressed essential information should be accountable.
Budvarakbar says
“and they would be saints.”
Most die to become “saints”
No one ever won a war by dying (becoming a Saint) for their country!
mortimer says
There are soldier-saints.
Angemon says
“And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand”.
Budvarakbar says
And let’s get that info out ASAP to our “enemies”!
Oh by the way — how are the Iranian branches of the MoBroHood doing in the WH and State Dept these days?
Rob says
if the German authorities can instruct the Cologne Police that digital penetration of a woman isn’t to be regarded as ‘rape’ – then anything is possible.
Roll on a Trump presidency. Like the Roman of old – Cincinnatus, who left his farm to go and save the republic, he is needed now
Budvarakbar says
They just do not know what the meaning of the word ‘digital’ is anymore — they think it is the latest electronic toy, music stream or TV — “Did you, or did you not, have electrical sex with that _________(fill in blank)?”
Hope says
The government and media have been playing the American people like a harp from hell, suppressing and manipulating information. This story, along with today’s news report about the whistleblowers at Facebook confirm what many of us have known all along.
Jack Holan says
You are correct but it did start Top Down and I mean at the very Top.
Budvarakbar says
Ever since the 1960 election. – Actually went into higher and higher gears over the years starting from when they successfully debunked McCarty
Guest says
We need to fix this. We can’t wait for someone else to come by. We know see that won’t work.
Jack Holan says
I have to laugh and cry. As a Fed you complete an online module FEAR that you will be protected if you are WhistleBlower but just how they are getting rid of this true Patriot is how the seasoned longtime Civil Servants or Military will fire you. She deserves the Medal of Freedom for exposing what she has and the ones setting her up and who have tainted the Intel deserve discharge and prison terms.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
This young woman needs to get herself a SERIOUS lawyer, and claim ‘Whistleblower Status’. And that is a lawsuit she will WIN.
FuturePresident says
When I am president this will not go unpunished. I would have this case thoroughly investigated and have thread removed and that woman re-instated.
Ciudadano says
My Friends Everything For My Enemies The Law
Fessitude says
“She Spoke Up About Cooked ISIS Intel. They Booted Her—for Cursing,” by Nancy A. Youssef, Daily Beast
Once again, in a mainstream Western media story, we see a reporter with a Muslim name. Nancy A. Youssef is an “Egyptian-American” so says Wikipedia (whose entire article on her neglects to mention the most important datum, whether she’s a Muslim or not).
When one looks up her stories on Daily Beast, one finds such fare as:
No Court-Martial for Afghan Hospital Slaughter
“Forty-two dead. Thirty injured. But not a single court-martial for the U.S. troops who bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan.”
Meanwhile the story featured her on JW buys her Good Cop — or even Better Cop – cred (the former fooling ordinary Westerners, the latter tending to fool the Counter-Jihad).
“Egyptian-American” – “We’re here, we’re growing inside you: get used to it.”
Bee says
I’m as suspicious as other JW readers – or more – of mohammedan media manipulation, but:
Yousef is Arabic for Joseph – a name in Jewish, Christian and mohammedan circles. Though Anna and Hannah are sometimes used as mohammedan names, their derivative Nancy is likely too Western to be mohammedan.
The first page of a search for “Nancy Youssef” Copt shows that she was married in a Coptic (which means Egyptian) church and has written articles in the Jewish press about the situation of Coptic Christians under mohammedan domination. 99.999% certainty that Nancy Youseef is a Coptic Christian, not a mohammedan.
Angemon says
Bee posted:
´”I’m as suspicious as other JW readers – or more – of mohammedan media manipulation”
You’ll have to excuse the special snowflake, Fessitude. In his mind the posts where JW’ers talk about mohammedan infiltration into government and media simply don’t exist and everyone else is an Inspector-Gadget style bumbling idiot – at least judging by the matters he addresses us about, not to mention the patronizing tone.
Think of that as the equivalent of saying he’s against punching babies or kicking puppies. It’s one of those things normal people are against but there’s always some jackass who needs to virtue signal by letting everyone know that they’re against it – and shame on you if you never publicly stated you’re against it, you baby puncher and puppy kicker.
Angemon says
Fessitude posted:
“Once again, in a mainstream Western media story, we see a reporter with a Muslim name.”
Like, I don’t know, Raymond Ibrahim or Ibn Warraq? Stick to the facts, kid: an *Arabic* name, which could very well belong to a Christian born and raised in a muslim majority country, not a “Muslim” name.
“Nancy A. Youssef is an “Egyptian-American” so says Wikipedia (whose entire article on her neglects to mention the most important datum, whether she’s a Muslim or not).”
Well, I’m sure the best course of action is to assume she’s a muslim, completely ignore the content on the report and then attack readers for discussing the report rather then going “wait, the writer has a muslim name, therefore she’s a muslim! Burn her! Burn the witch!!!”
“Meanwhile the story featured her on JW buys her Good Cop — or even Better Cop – cred (the former fooling ordinary Westerners, the latter tending to fool the Counter-Jihad).”
So let me get this straight: you’re ascribing stealth jihad to her even though you don’t know whether or not she’s a muslim? Where exactly is the stealth jihad in this article?
““Egyptian-American” – “We’re here, we’re growing inside you: get used to it.””
Do you also look for muslims under your bed before going to sleep? Do you have something against Raymond Ibrahim, an American of Egyptian heritage? And, more importantly, do you have something to say about the article at hand or are you too busy trying to shame those who aren’t going after the writer because of her name alone?
Sam says
Military is corrupt? Siding with the enemy? Our intelligence is compromised? We are not in trouble as a nation> Right?
linnte says
Nothing surprises me any more! You can bet this woman knows WAY more than she is saying at this point. She should go into the witness protection program.
linnte says
Oh wait! She should just secretly slip away. Forget THE FEDERAL witness protection program!
Jay Boo says
Obama will lecture
Rutgurs will snicker
Satan will be there
The ants will all whisper
The ants know their secret
There will be peace
Steve says
Having served in the military I am not the least bit surprised by this. Here we go again. They are going after her, the whistle blower, instead of looking in the mirror at the source of and the solution to the problem. The Military Officer Corp is corrupt. Once you make Major/Lt. Cmdr (O-4) it becomes very political. And if you are not a “Team Player” willing to go along to get along you will be screwed over so much you will just get out. The American Military hasn’t won a single thing since WW II and the Officer Corp has no Honor and knows no Shame. They would rather kiss behind than fall on their sword. And yes to answer the question many of you are wanting answered….Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Officer.
abe luber says
ok if you want to do your job and your boss tells you not to do don’t do it.
Matthieu Baudin says
The commander in chief has set the tone that all are expected to follow. A strategy of wishful thinking that will continue until his final day in office.
Benedict says
Yeah right, Obama and his hand picked cowards want to fight the Russians. This Muslim president has done so much damage to the moral of the military that to undo it will take a long time. he made sure that America will never be powerful again and that the Arab countries will wield all the power