FACT: Liberal organization VoteVets publicized this accusation with a letter addressed to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, expressing their outrage over "leaks" that revealed the whereabouts of Track Palin, and further asking Gates to "conduct an immediate investigation to find the source of these leaks, and prosecute, if necessary." Of course the source of the "leaks" was none other than Sarah Palin herself, who proudly announced on several occasions that her son would soon be leaving for Iraq.
Blogger Bob Owens notes,
Jon Soltz, a former U.S. Army Captain, Iraq War veteran, and chairman of Votevets.org, is claiming that gov. Palin violated operational security by revealing that her eldest son, Track, would be deploying to Iraq. Soltz repeated the smear on another prominent political web site, the Huffington Post.
But the claim Gov. Palin violated operational security is demonstrably false, which Soltz, as a former soldier, should have know before posting his claims. CNN's Anderson Cooper dismantled Soltz's transparently partisan attack, pointing out that the Pentagon announced Track Palin's unit was deploying to Iraq back in May, and that the unit itself had announced a public deployment ceremony a month before Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate. Two separate field-grade officers contacted have confirmed that Palin in no way violated operational security.
Perhaps this smear was a lame attempt to prove that Palin is not fit to be Commander In Chief. Whatever the reason, it failed spectacularly.
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