Folks, we need to talk about something. Some of my very best friends & some of the best people i know are Independent Journalists.

Their integrity & honor & commitment to the truth is greater than just about anyone else on the planet.

But some ‘independent journalists’ are flat out lazy pieces of shit. Unethical egotistical pieces of shit that print lies that have the intention of destroying people’s lives.

Let’s talk about that, & about what happened to Sergeant Major Chuck Ritter, Green Beret, 3rd Special Forces group.

Get a good beverage & settle in. This is gonna take a while.

So, first, we’re gonna dive into that thread that the Stolen Valor crew did analyzing *everything*- the facts, the sworn statements, the US Army investigation, all of it. Get some popcorn. Or something for your blood pressure depending. Some may laugh. Some people may get so angry it makes their blood pressure dangerous. Im in the latter category.

Like it says, the background: who Sergeant Major Ritter, Green Beret, 3rd Special Forces Group, is.

The allegations. Now proven 100% false, by the way.

This is who former US Army Ranger & so-called ‘independent journalist’ tried to smear & destroy. Not just SGM Ritter’s career but his marriage.

Where do you go to get your reputation & good name back when a piece of shit pretending to be a journalist, who doesn’t verify or fact check anything, writes a story like this & then gets CAUGHT, DEBUNKED, & then refuses to recant/retract the smear piece?

Enter *the journalists so-called source*, Kate. The Fiancée turned wife. More on this. Much, much more.

Read that last paragraph TWICE: Kate, the wife making the accusations, admitted to the US Army Inspector General’s office criminal investigators that she FABRICATED EVERYTHING.

The official findings from the US Army Inspector General.

This is another excellent fact-based well sourced thread detailing the effort by Kate Leyen to destroy SGM Ritter’s career & marriage.

https://x.com/julio_rosas11/status/1734234258875572415?s=46&t=-xYqpjo876h3XXS7dmAm0g

The husband, the soldier SGM Ritter disciplined which started Kate Leyen’s effort to smear SGM Ritter is ON THE RECORD confirming its all bullshit.

This speaks for itself.

Thats just a tiny little taste.

And yes, he’s right. There’s video. Lots & lots & lots of video evidence of Kate Leyen’s actions.

Now the meat of the story. Lets talk about that ‘independent journalist’, Jack Murphy.

Army IG looked at it. The US Military vets who make a CAREER out of finding fraud, particularly stolen valor, took apart this ridiculous smear effort in a hot fucking minute.

Jack Murphy rolled it up into a salacious scandalous fictional article he labeled as truth, then printed it.

The two outlets that ran this as a prime feature on their publications, online & in print were asked by several including SGM Ritter to retract or at MINIMUM publish correction & set the record straight. Audacy did.

UK Daily Mail made a half assed retraction post online that was barely a blurb that few saw with no apology.

Jack Murphy has neither retracted, corrected or apologized for what he did to SGM Ritter.

Magic 🎱 says: No.

They are pieces of shit, not real journalists.