..." And then there is America's most despised frat-boy, Kash Patel..." [View all]
If you’ve ever been to Pearl Harbor, you know that the area around the USS Arizona is revered. It is not a recreational dive site. It’s not some playground for pampered, spoiled, and pompous buffoons.
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The wreck is accessible only by boat. Recreational diving is generally prohibited. Rare exceptions are made for marine archaeologists, National Park Service survey crews, and a ceremonial diver interring the remains of an Arizona survivor who wanted to spend eternity beside his shipmates.
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The miserable excuse for an FBI director, already loathed for joy-riding on government jets and crashing the Olympic hockey locker room, thought he could brazenly slip beneath the waters of the USS Arizona Memorial last August for an exclusive underwater tour of the sunken battleship.
Government emails obtained by the Associated Press through a public records request show that military officials coordinated logistics and personnel for what they internally called a “VIP snorkel.”
Marine veteran Hack Albertson, who dives the Arizona annually with the Paralyzed Veterans of America, put it plainly: “It’s like having a bachelor party at a church. It’s hallowed ground. It needs to be treated with the solemnity it deserves.”
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/kash-patel-pearl-harbor/
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