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So, the wing commander for Navy strategic communications aircraft was relieved of command. As usual, that gets a blurb in the Navy Times.

The commodore of the Navy’s Strategic Communications Wing 1, based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, was fired Tuesday after a loss of confidence in her ability to lead. Capt. Heather Cole had “not performed up to the high standards demanded of an officer in command,” Naval Air Forces said in a press release.

Reliefs are rather depressingly common, and not really the point of the story here (though we should write  a post on TACAMO some day).

What’s the point? That there is an incredible cottage industry in “news” outlets that take a real event, and craft the most incredible distortions or lies.

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that President Barack Obama’s nuclear war communication commander has been arrested and relieved of her command after failing to transmit launch codes authorizing an atomic weapons first-strike attack upon the Federation in coordination with a similar “surprise” attack planned by the United Kingdom.