MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 6 November 2009:
Gold goes to Tom Kenniff from the Army National Guard Judge Advocates General group, a JAG, an Army lawyer, who, after asserting that Maj. Hasan could never have had post-traumatic stress disorder because he never served on the front lines, and calling the whole thing psychobabble and asserting that the real story here was the man's last name, he was asked a question by another guesst, a woman:
GUEST: 'Maybe the fact is that you're a JAG officers, and you have no idea what it's like to be in combat."
KENNIFF: "I spent a year in Iraq, ma'am. Have you ever been to Iraq?"
And it was at that exact moment that Mr. Kenniff lost any remaining credibility he may have had on the subject of, say, the millitary. He didn't know who the woman was of whom he had just asked 'have you ever been to Iraq?' Here answer was:
"I'm a POW. I got shot."
The other guest was Shoshana Johnson, former U.S. Army specialist, and she was not only shot in both ankles, when her group, the 507th Maintenance Brigade, was attacked on March 23, 2003, and she spent 22 days thereafter as a prisoner of war in Iraq.
I think she inadvertently summed up Mr. Kenniff when she noticed he was a JAG-off -icer.