In the face of Benghazi and the IRS scandals, this scandal hasn’t been getting enough attention. Update to this story. Any one of these, in and of themselves, would have done in any Republican president unprotected by MSM.
Via WFB:
Family members of the fallen SEAL Team Six members shot down in Afghanistan in 2011 said members of Congress and top military brass have ignored their concerns about the circumstances surrounding their sons’ deaths at a press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday.
The families of Aaron Vaughn, Michael Strange, and Patrick Hamburger claim they were misled during the investigation and believe that flawed U.S. military “rules of engagement” policy contributed to the downing of a Chinook helicopter by the Taliban in Wardak province. All 38 people on board the Chinook, which included 15 SEAL Team Six members and seven Afghan National Army commandos, were killed.
The families also alleged the U.S. military allowed an imam to pray their sons’ “souls into eternal fire” at a ceremony at Bagram Air Base.
Billy Vaughn, father of Aaron Vaughn, said he contacted numerous members of Congress to ask for help with his inquiries about the attack. He said he received no response from House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.).
“Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.), chairman of the [Armed Services Committee] in the Senate, I called him. I called him numerous times. Told him who I was, who my son was, what had happened. They told me to ‘stop harassing the senator,’” said Vaughn. “Thank you, Sen. Levin.”
Levin’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
The attack occurred three months after the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. The families said Vice President Joe Biden’s public disclosure in May 2011 that SEAL Team Six carried out the raid put the entire elite unit at risk of retribution attacks.
“We’re very concerned that the administration disclosed that the Navy SEALs were involved,” said Patrick Hamburger’s father, Doug Hamburger.