Lame-Bro, Bush DOD had contact with Afghan Bounty Hunter

When we last checked in with Jungle Jack Idema he was claiming he had contact with the Bush Administration Department of Defense officials and they were denying it.

Gee, another erroneous denial (usually called lies).

When Jack Idema first appeared in court last month, he was asked to name names to prove his claims to have had links with the US Department of Defense.

One he mentioned was Heather Anderson, the Pentagon's Acting Director of Security, who answers to the chief official responsible for intelligence matters in the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary.

Ms Anderson, Idema said, had applauded their work in Afghanistan and had wanted them to go on contract.

Until now, the Department of Defense has refused to acknowledge any contacts at all between itself and the former US soldier who it has described as an unauthorised freelancer.

But a Pentagon official told the BBC that Mr Idema had spoken to Ms Anderson by phone early this year.

After doing some checking on Mr Idema, the official said, she then called him back.

But Ms Anderson had turned down what she said was Mr Idema's request to be taken on by the Pentagon to work in Afghanistan.

That was not the end of the matter.

The official said Mr Idema continued to contact the Pentagon by phone, fax and email, "trying to establish a relationship".

Jack Idema's US-based lawyer, John Tiffany, has rejected the Pentagon's version of events, describing them as completely false.

If they had rebuffed him, he asked, why did they keep taking his phone calls?

So here are two serial liars with opposite stories, one of whom has conceded a portion of the first serial liar's story and tried to explain it away.

Hmmm. Hopefully SOJ at Flogging the Simian will have more on this eventually.