This should drive Coke up the wall.

Some word is coming out of the SOC/Seal world on what really went down with the pirates. I'm going to cut and paste a few goodies from an email from an old Navy man outlining some of what supposedly went down along with just how fucking incredible the Seals were.

"The SEAL's quick response-- departing ready-alert in less than 4 hours from Norfolk-- supposedly surprised Obama's staff, whereas President Obama was miffed not to get his "cops" there before the Navy. He reportedly questioned his staff, "Will 'my' FBI people get there before the Navy does?" It took the FBI almost 12 hours to put together a team and get them packed-up-- for an "at sea" rescue. The FBI was trying to tell him that they are not practiced to do this-- Navy SEALs are. But, the President wanted the FBI there "to help," that is, carry out the Attorney General's (his) orders to negotiate the release of Captain Phillips peacefully-- because apparently he doesn't trust the military to carry out his "political guidance."

"The first request by the OSC (On Scene Commander) that early Friday morning to take the pirates out and save Captain Phillips was denied, to wit: "No, wait until 'my' FBI people get there."

"The Navy SEAL team, briefed the OSC (Commander Castellano, CO BAINBRIDGE) on how they could rescue the captain from the life boat with swimmers-- "Combat Swimmers," per se. That plan was denied by Washington because it put the captain in danger-- and, involved killing the pirates."

" The FBI negotiators arrived on scene, and talked the pirates into sending their wounded man over for treatment Saturday morning. Later that afternoon, the SEAL's sent over their RHIB Boat with food and water in order to recon the life boat but the pirates shot at it. They could have taken them out then (from being fired upon) but were denied again being told that the captain was not in "imminent danger."

"Now, here's the part the president's "whiz kids" knew as well as the Navy hierarchy, including CO BAINBRIDGE and CO SEAL TEAM SIX. It's the law in Article 19 of Appendix L in the "Convention of the High Seas" that the Commanding Officer of a US Ship on the high seas is obligated to respond to distress signals from any flagged ship (US or otherwise), and protect the life and property thereof when deemed to be in IMMINENT DANGER. So, in the final analysis, it would be Captain Castellano’s call as to "Imminent Danger," and that he alone was obligated (duty bound) to act accordingly."

The Kill:

"It was necessary to take out the plexiglass window in the front of the life boat so that it would not deflect the trajectory of the high velocity .308 round. So, a sniper (one of four) with a wad-cutter round (a flaxen sabot) would take out the window a split second before the kill-shot-- no change in sight-picture, just the window blowing out, clean.

After medically attending to the wounded pirate, and feeding him, come first light (from the east) on Easter Sunday morning and the pirates saw they were being towed further out to sea (instead of westward toward land), the wounded pirate demanded to be returned to the lifeboat. There would BE NO more negotiations-- and, the four Navy SEAL snipers "in the bubble" went "Unlock." The pirate holding Captain Philips raised the gun to his head, and IMMINENT DANGER was so observed and noted in the Log as CO BAINBRIDGE gave the classic order: WEAPONS RELEASED! "On my count 3, 2, 1, !" POP, BANG! Out went the window, followed by three simultaneous shots."


'Not only did they shoot the pirates from 30 meters in a rough sea state, they fucking knocked out the lifeboat window to ensure their rounds were true. Fucking amazing".

But wait, this can't be. The media reported that Obama gave the order to shoot the pirates. Politicians never lie and the media and politicians never collude to mislead the public.

Can you post the link to the source?