Following Up on the Elusive Ben Connable
Something in my December 14th Who and Where is Ben Connable must have struck a nerve out there in cyberspace, a place that tends toward nervousness. I got an e-mail from BBC World Service asking me to participate in a radio broadcast on 'whether the media isn't reporting the good news out of Iraq.'
My knee-jerk reaction to that was what media? The Pentagon has been reporting regularly through their script-writers, the Washington based Lincoln Group and, although they’ve been paying for placement, I’m not sure that qualifies them as media.
Then came an e-mail from a friend of Ben's, who wasn’t happy with me. I have deleted reference to his name, so it shouldn’t be a breach of trust:
Mr. Freeman,
My name is ***** ******. I came across your comments that you doubt that Major Ben Connable is authentic or even exists.
I am a close personal friend of Major Connable's, and he does indeed exist in the capacity he states.
One of the reasons you may not be able to find much about him is due to the EX…