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A General’s False Testimony

Will the Pentagon correct Major Gen. Jerome Johnson’s tainted testimony on the contaminated water KBR provided to the troops?

By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

When Major Gen. Jerome Johnson appeared under oath before a congressional committee last year, he told enough untruths about KBR’s work for the military that the U.S. Army took the unusual step of retracting a portion of his testimony. Now it appears that Johnson also misled members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on another KBR-related matter: its provisioning of… return to article

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    The pentagon is almost as big of liars as Bush, Chaney,Condi,Rove, and the likes.If you don’t lie for this wicked administration, your career is out the
    door. example: the two top brass of the AIR FORCE that Bush replaced, much more than meets the eye

    United States Posted by fraserpat@bellsouth.net on Jun 11, 2008 at 6:01 AM
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