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Let’s get one thing straight about this self-proclaimed terror expert- HE HAS NEVER EVEN BEEN TO AFGHANISTAN. And, he has never even seen, no less met, a terrorist, either at lunch or on the battlefield. Yet Warrington is proclaimed as an expert source on al-Qaida, who states he thinks Jack’s 8mm VideoX al-Qaida Training Tapes were staged. “In a nutshell, the videotapes are forgeries,” Warrington states in Mariah Blake’s article. Warrington also claims he “was looking at 7 hours of tape of something that al-Qaida doesn’t do.” Unless Warrington was viewing these tapes at a Defense Intelligence Agency office, or at the Pentagon or CIA, he is a liar because the seven hours have never been released, only roughly 20 minutes has ever been released. So there is lie number ONE.

Stacy Sullivan’s impugning of the integrity of the 8mm VideoX al-Qaida tapes, which she states in her tag line “may have been faked,” is already getting her sued. But in the body of the article, not only does she accuse Jack of faking them, she asserts that the CIA did a voice analysis. That actually had us laughing for a moment. Is this reporter so stupid as to think the CIA has time to voice analyze tapes for the media, when they don’t even have enough time and experts to analyze 15% of the NSA monitored conversations of known al-Qaida operators and operations? Do you actually think that any part of the US government would admit such a thing as saying the tapes were fake, or even talk about such a thing? What did the Boston Globe say about the tapes two years ago? And what did CBS 60 Minutes II say AFTER showing the tapes to the top counter-terrorist expert in Afghanistan, a former Delta Force commander and US Army general?

Warrington fails to mention, as do the reporters quoting him, that he wrote an email three years ago accusing Jack of bombing civilians from mosques (maybe he got confused after watching Geraldo Rivera on FOX News talking about friendly fire in Kandahar). Warrington wrote the email from his CUBIX Corporation email account. Suffice it to say that CUBIX was not happy about the letters they started receiving from Jack’s lawyers. Apparently now Warrington claims he is a “terror consultant” but gives no employer. Well, “terror consultants” in this day and age are a dime a dozen, the question is have they ever really fought terrorists? Warrington was long out of the Army before Special Forces “Anti-Terrorist teams” were formed, but Sullivan forgot to check this out, also referring to Warrington as a “Deputy Commander” of a Special Forces counterterrorism unit. In reality, Warrington was an assistant team leader (that means he had ten men in his “command” and eight that actually had to listen to him). His boss was a Captain, and anyone that knows anything about Special Forces knows Captains don’t have much to say in the scheme of things. His team was a ski team in Massachusetts, not a counter-terrorist team, although it makes for good bullshit at a bar.

By the way, the next journalist that uses this guy as a source, ought to ask to see his Special Forces Qualification Course diploma, his SOT diploma (the Special Forces Counter-Terrorist course) and his 201 file.

Here’s how Sherrie Gossett at Accuracy In Media quoted him:

“But Tracy-Paul Warrington, former deputy commander of a Special Forces counter-terrorism team and a civilian intelligence analyst for the Defense Department, told CJR, “In a nutshell, the videotapes are forgeries.” Warrington said the tactics shown had been abandoned by Al Qaeda, and that the area where the footage was supposedly filmed was under coalition control.”

Here’s what Mariah Blake at Columbia Journalism Review said in her laughable article:

“Special Forces soldiers, other journalists, and Army Intelligence immediately questioned the tapes’ authenticity. Tracy-Paul Warrington, formerly a chief warrant officer with U.S. Special Forces who now advises American police forces on counterterrorism, says the tapes are not an intimate look at anything—except clumsy military playacting. “Eighty-five percent of terrorists’ attacks in the last decade have been bombings,” Warrington says. “In this film we see raids. This was a method that went out in the seventies, when Idema was in the Army. I was looking at seven hours of tape of something that Al Qaeda doesn’t do.” Another retired Special Forces soldier, and a longtime acquaintance of Keith Idema’s, contacted CIA sources and learned the agency had similar concerns about the tapes’ authenticity. “The CIA ran voice analysis on the tapes and concluded they were staged,” he says, adding that the agency didn’t publicize its findings because it “didn’t want to waste its time on someone it considered harmless.” Contacted about this claim, CBS spokeswoman Kelli Edwards said the network “showed the tape to…a top U.S. military official in Aghanistan [sic], who told us that, in his opinion, the video was authentic.” In the terror-charged atmosphere of early 2002, in any event, there was no public outcry over the piece’s authenticity.”

Stacy Sullivan quoted Warrington in her piece “Operation Desert Fraud“at New York Magazine.

Tracy-Paul Warrington, formerly a chief warrant officer with U.S. Special Forces who now advises American police forces on counterterrorism, says the tapes are not an intimate look at anything—except clumsy military playacting. “Eighty-five percent of terrorists’ attacks in the last decade have been bombings,” Warrington says. “In this film we see raids. This was a method that went out in the seventies, when Idema was in the Army. I was looking at seven hours of tape of something that Al Qaeda doesn’t do.”

Hysterical ! These articles are highly questionable about Jack and the authenticity of his al-Qaida tapes–they all use the same “experts”–one being Tracy-Paul Warrington, and he’s never even seen a terrorist on the battlefield.

1. The “top military official” was General Gary Harrell, senior commander on the ground at Bagram air base, who has served in every major American conflict in the last two decades, including Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War and Somalia, and a former commander in Delta Force (a real one, not a fake like Cafasso). But this journalist forgot to mention that.

2. The “retired Special Forces soldier, and a longtime acquaintance of Keith Idema’s, [who] contacted CIA sources,” is not named– guess who? JOE CAFASSO- wow, this journalist is brilliant, we wouldn’t have printed his name either.

3. Warrington, like Cafasso, is so full of s*** that we want to puke. Did any of the journalists think to do a simple Google search on Warrington BEFORE they used him as a terror expert source? How about this one:

Tom Hennessy
Long Beach Telegraph-Press
Thursday, June 22, 2000

Tracy-Paul Warrington, of Vacaville, says he was a student at Center Junior High in Simi Valley in 1971 when David lectured students about his experiences in Vietnam. “He went on to explain that he was in a Navy SEAL base camp one time and had to kill a 3- or 4-year-old child because she had explosives strapped to her body with the fuse burning. He went on to describe various operations; kill-or-be-killed, buddies dying in his arms … You could have heard a pin drop in that classroom. The teachers were moved to tears.” Warrington himself was touched, and he says David steered him toward a special operations career in the military. “It’s kind of ironic that a phony was one of the influences in my life and career,” says Warrington. Warrington is now a civilian software engineer.

So, Warrington was a computer geek in 2000, more than a year before 9/11, we now know the closest he got to the War on Terror was playing videogames at home on his couch. Now, how about this one:

“MILITARY ORIENTEERING Tracy-Paul Warrington CWO (retired), US Army Special Forces discribes [sic] the basic needs of orienteering skills as a member of Special Operations Forces. 7 July 1997.”

So, now we know the computer geek was trying to tell everyone what an expert on Special Forces he was almost ten years ago.

In fact, it gets better– but for now, you get the idea.

The following quote was submitted by Tracy-Paul Warrington:

“The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.”
— Tracy-Paul Warrington

Sounds like Warrington knows how to be a weasel…

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