Pelosi abusing a privlege and the military, at once (UPDATED)

Here we go again. It happened before where the new Speaker thought the USAF is her private airline. Mostly due to the fact that she is third in line for the Oval Office, gives me enough reason to feel she may "need" an aircraft.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly requested military aircraft to shuttle her and her colleagues and family around the country, according to a new report from a conservative watchdog group. Representatives for Judicial Watch, which obtained e-mails and other documents from a Freedom of Information request, said the correspondence shows Pelosi has abused the system in place to accommodate congressional leaders and treated the Air Force as her "personal airline."
... In one e-mail, aide Kay King complained to the military that they had not made available any aircraft the House speaker wanted for Memorial Day recess. "It is my understanding there are NO G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable ... The Speaker will want to know where the planes are," King wrote.

So now she needs MULTIPLE planes at her beckon call? I do not think so. This is unacceptable and I want to know when the Commander in Chief is going to step forward and tell her that the United States Air Force is not her private airline, and they take orders from HIM... not her ugly old face. (Yeah I went personal, deal.)

One of my personal favorite excerpts:

Documents obtained from the U.S. Army include correspondence from Speaker Pelosi's office requesting an Army escort and three military planes to transport Pelosi and other members of Congress to Cleveland, Ohio, for the funeral services of the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Pelosi noted in her letter of August 22, 2008, that such a request, labeled "Operation Tribute" was an "exception to standard policy."

Three planes? Ummm, F. U. Coming Summer of 2009, Speaker Pelosi's Yacht...

[UPDATE:]



RedState did some fantastic work on this:

The email traffic makes it clear that, even if Pelosi herself wasn’t on the horn to DOD demanding personal transport, more comfort, and personal use of military bases and resources, her staff certainly was — and the DOD knew full well that the requests were coming not from the House Sergeant-at-Arms office, as Pelosi claimed, but from those speaking for the Speaker herself.

As well as Michelle Malkin:

Another official pointed out the “hidden costs” associated with the speaker’s last minute changes and cancellations. “We have…folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc.” Upset that a specific type of aircraft was not available to her boss, a Pelosi staffer carped to the DoD coordinators: “This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker.”