Adm Mullen's tongue slips

[struggle4progress]

Media Roundtable
with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen
from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, Va.
March 05, 2008

... Q A question about Colombia, sir. I wonder if you could tell us, did the U.S. military have any role in helping with the intelligence that led to the strike in Ecuador against the FARC commander? And is there any change in the status of our trainers that are in Colombia based on the mobilization on the Venezuelan border, any of the other sort of changes that are going down in the wake of this strike?

SEC. GATES: Well, I would just say that we are very supportive ...

Q Just to follow up, do we routinely help with the intelligence in addition to training with the campaign against the FARC?

ADM. MULLEN: We've had an operation -- I mean, we've supported President Uribe in Colombia for many, many years sort of across the board from a training perspective and other perspectives. And I'd stay away from -- the details of any additional support ...

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4168

[Judi Lynn]

1. Just one honest man coming forward could transform U.S. policy. It would be a scream if someone

blew the lid off the whole thing accidently.

We eventually find out what these a-holes have done: it usually takes a couple of decades, unfortunately.

They need to change their ways. The world is running out of patience.

[EFerrari]

2. Murdering bastards.

I wonder what kind of weapons were used to kill those people. Ecuador knows and I hope they release the information.