Come on libs. Step up to the plate. If this story is true and the ******* NY Slimes does this horrible thing, then surely you must all condemn it at least as much as you roundly codemned Karl Rove and Scooter Libby for supposedly outing top secret covert agent Valerie Plame (and truthfully, more so).
WHERE is your condemnation?
Nothing?
Silence?
That's it?
As I thought.
Hey pea brain, where's YOUR condemnation? It looks like your Mike Furlong stole $15 MILLION dollars of taxpayer's money!
Top General Approached
They approached Gen. David D. McKiernan, soon to become the top American commander in Afghanistan. Their proposal was to set up a reporting and research network in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the American military and private clients who were trying to understand a complex region that had become vital to Western interests. They already had a similar operation in Iraq called Iraq Slogger, which employed local Iraqis to report and write news stories for their Web site. Mr. Jordan proposed setting up a similar Web site in Afghanistan and Pakistan except that the operation would be largely financed by the American military. The name of the Web site was Afpax.
Mr. Jordan said that he had gone to the United States military because the business in Iraq was not profitable relying solely on private clients. He described his proposal as essentially a news gathering operation, involving only unclassified materials gathered openly by his employees. It was all open-source, he said.
When Mr. Jordan made the pitch to General McKiernan, Mr. Furlong was also present, according to Mr. Jordan. General McKiernan endorsed the proposal, and Mr. Furlong said that he could find financing for Afpax, both Mr. Jordan and Mr. Pelton said. On that day, they told us to get to work, Mr. Pelton said.
But Mr. Jordan said that the help from Mr. Furlong ended up being extremely limited. He said he was paid twice once to help the company with start-up costs and another time for a report his group had written. Mr. Jordan declined to talk about exact figures, but said the amount of money was a small fraction of what he had proposed and what it took to run his news gathering operation.
Whenever he asked for financing, Mr. Jordan said, Mr. Furlong told him that the money was being used for other things, and that the appetite for Mr. Jordans services was diminishing.
He told us that there was less and less money for what we were doing, and less of an appreciation for what we were doing, he said.
Admiral Smith, the militarys director for strategic communications in Afghanistan, said that when he arrived in Kabul a year later, in June 2009, he opposed financing Afpax. He said that he did not need what Mr. Pelton and Mr. Jordan were offering and that the service seemed uncomfortably close to crossing into intelligence gathering which could have meant making targets of individuals.
I took the air out of the balloon, he said.
Admiral Smith said that the C.I.A. was against the proposal for the same reasons. Mr. Furlong persisted in pushing the project, he said.
I finally had to tell him, Read my lips, were not interested, Admiral Smith said.
What happened next is unclear.
Admiral Smith said that when he turned down the Afpax proposal,
Mr. Furlong wanted to spend the leftover money elsewhere. That is when Mr. Furlong agreed to provide some of International Media Ventures employees to Admiral Smiths strategic communications office.
But that still left roughly $15 million unaccounted for, he said.
I have no idea where the rest of the money is going, Admiral Smith said. 
