Free Call Sign Extortion 17 by Don Brown Page A

Report blew this off as if it was a nonissue. Why?
    Billy Vaughn and the Discovery of the Manifest Discrepancy
    Although the issue of the seven unidentified Afghans has never been substantively reported by the press, perhaps because they have not yet realized its importance, it was first discovered outside the confines of the military by Billy Vaughn, father of deceased Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn.
    Mr. Vaughn discovered the issue in a review of the 1,250-page Colt Report when he read the very same passage at Page 118 of Exhibit 1 that is cited here. In other words, Mr. Vaughn discovered the “needle in the haystack.” But because so very little was said about the unidentified Afghans on the flight manifest in the transcript, he initially assumed that the presence of the Afghans on board must not have been significant.
    Mr. Vaughn first raised this issue with military officials on January 11, 2013, fifteen months after the shoot-­down, when he and his wife Karen were visited in their home by then-­Admiral William “Billy” McRaven,and the admiral’s senior enlisted advisor, a senior sergeant major in the Army.
    Both at the time of the Bin Laden raid and the Extortion 17 shoot-­down, Admiral McRaven was the commander of Joint Special Operations Command, a post he held until August 8, 2011. Only two days after the Extortion 17 incident, he was promoted to commander of US Special Operations Command, with that Command being headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
    In his position as commander of Joint Special Operations Command, McRaven ultimately oversaw and commanded the logistical operations of Operation Neptune Spear, and although he did not fly with that mission, he was often referred to as the “mastermind” of the mission that got Bin Laden.
    Both Operation Neptune Spear, the SEALs’ greatest triumph, and Extortion 17, the SEALs’ greatest tragedy, occurred on McRaven’s watch.
    As a result of his leadership both as commander of Joint Special Operations Command, and then as commander of Special Operations Command, and due to the fact that he was also a Navy SEAL, Admiral McRaven often had communications with family members of the fallen Navy SEALs of Extortion 17.
    On or about Friday, January 11, 2013, Admiral McRaven traveled to the Florida home of Billy and Karen Vaughn, parents of deceased SEAL Aaron Vaughn.
    During the meeting, Billy Vaughn mentioned that he had read in the transcript of the investigation that seven unidentified Afghans had boarded Extortion 17, and Mr. Vaughn casually made the comment that, “This must not be a big deal.”
    But the admiral’s aide, the sergeant major, spoke up and corrected Mr. Vaughn’s assumption. “Mr. Vaughn, it’s a very big deal. [Speaking of the unidentified Afghans infiltrating the aircraft.] Because it was passed over. It’s a very big deal. That should never happen.” The sergeant major then added, “In fact, after the crash, we had to notify the men we thought were on the chopper. We had to notify them and tell them their sons were okay.”
    The sergeant major, whose name is being withheld here for his own protection, was taking it upon himself to alert the Vaughns about a major issue that had been overlooked. His words were heard by both Billy and Karen Vaughn, and it is important to note, by Admiral McRaven, who was sitting in the Vaughns’ living room beside the sergeant major. According to the Vaughns, McRaven sat silently and did not say a word.
    The timing of this revelation was significant. The Vaughns were alerted to this breach as being “a very big deal” on January 11, 2013, some seventeen months after the shoot-­down. Up until this point, the military had been successful in keeping people’s attentions off the security break, in part because it was buried in a very brief exchange, at page 118, in which the subject was quickly