And the Katrina story was not "told" till well after Kyle's death and Webb also used Jeremy Scahill as a source for his opinion piece with information that has been debunked to further his own agenda.

So there's no direct evidence that he made either claim but there's no shortage of people claiming it's true.

Because someone else said it the story must be true seems to be the mantra.

I'm not as familiar with the carjacking story but I called bullshit on the Katrina sniper story as soon as it was posted here.

I'll post this so folks can see what was said about Katrina.

http://sofrep.com/19314/american-snipers-engage-us-citizens-in-new-orleans-circa-2005/

The Long Shadow Of Katrina: Military Snipers Engaging U.S. Citizens?
by Brandon Webb · April 15, 2013 · Posted In: Op-Ed  

In early 2012, I had an unexpected conversation with my friend Chris Kyle (author of American Sniper) about the Katrina debacle. I had heard rumblings about Special Operations snipers being deployed to New Orleans to support the effort to restore order. He confirmed the rumors and shared his own intimate knowledge that close contacts of his, many active duty Spec Ops snipers (some Navy SEALs), took leave to work for the controversial PMC (Private Military Company), Blackwater.

Chris went on to tell me that the bulk of the guys he knew directly had racked up over thirty kills between them. I asked him about Rules of Engagement, and asked, “Who were they shooting at,” and he just gave me a big Texas shrug and smile. I figured out really quick that it was 180 grains of due process (usually to the head at 200M).

We carried on with our own personal conversation on the morality of it all over many beers, and into the early San Diego morning. It clearly bothered him, and it still bothers me. It’s obviously a very uncomfortable topic. However, if we continue to ignore what really went down, history has taught us that it will come back and bite us in the ass. I personally don’t like repeating my mistakes: if I make a mistake, I learn from it, and move on.

The Morality of It All

In 2005, the most destructive hurricane, Katrina, struck the Atlantic coast. It would turn out to be one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history. A part of that cost is the unspoken toll on the American soul. This is what I want to focus on but it is the stuff a lot of people in Washington want to put under the bed and forget about.

Many lessons learned have come out of the U.S. response to Katrina, but most of the expensive government studies have dealt with streamlining command structure and logistics. Apparently, nobody wants to tear off the scab and have a philosophical conversation about the morality of what really went down when Martial Law was declared. A quick search on Google relative to Katrina will bring up the New Orleans horror stories: racial profiling, murder, rape, police cover up, and rogue private military contractors a la Blackwater’s poor hiring practices (I’ve witnessed this first hand in Iraq).

The morality of what went down when Martial Law was declared is an important topic of discussion that needs to discussed. Private Military Contractors (PMCs), police units, and military had an impossible job, no argument there. However, killing fellow American citizens with Iraq-style ROE, all in the name of restoring order, should be looked at and learned from. Unless, of course, we are ok with putting due process and the Constitution on the back burner in these situations. I personally would not like to continue down a path towards Oceania.

Why wasn’t this a bigger deal in the media at the time? Because press coverage was extremely restricted, and limited as a result. So now all we are left with is rumor and a few courageous individuals who are slowly coming out of the shadows to tell the truth.

Boots on the Ground

Two weeks after returning from my contract work I was sent down with 19th SFG to the 4th Ward. We took over a school that had been abandoned and that’s where we set up shop for the next 29 days. They wouldn’t let us do 30 days because then they would have to pay us BAH. The first night we got there someone dumped an entire mag of AK-47 into some guy’s car, killing him. From there it was an all out s___ show. We operated with locked and loaded M4s and M9s with body armor, and in no way did I feel over dressed. While we only had one time when any of our vehicles were shot at, and we didn’t smoke anyone, we were the general law in the area. We would drive around, stop any person we felt needed to be stopped, search them and then move on. We entered any house we felt needed to be entered and searched it if needed.
–US Army Special Forces Soldier

Just spoke to one of my buddies. He was deployed with SWAT immediately after the storm and worked New Orleans for a month straight. Once the storm cleared, the massive crime spree began. Looting, robberies, shootings, rapes, etc. It was chaos. He remembers specifically running into what he thought were Army operators, he wasn’t sure if ODA team or Delta, but he said they were definitely Army SF and they were geared for war, even frag grenades for the 203 (gold tipped?). They were on their way to a hot area where gun fire was coming from a school building for days without ending. It ended after he heard they got there. He said he observed numerous personnel in non de script uniforms, private contractors for sure, but he did not see any SEALS, although I don’t think they would be operating in the open and his SWAT team was never attached with any government personnel. He did say on day 4 he ran into another Trooper who told him he heard the SEALS were there and had been doing some work off a bridge, but he did not have specifics, just rumor. He did see a lot of bodies with gun shot wounds, but in typical New Orleans tradition, no investigation to speak of.

The rumors of SEALS being down there were floating around but no one from LSP SWAT saw or worked with any. Another friend who worked in the command post the entire time said he never saw any SEALS or SF, but after throwing out the scenario you mentioned, he said there were so many people whom everyone assumed were government “contractors.” They had no identifying characteristics and their “assignments,” unlike everyone else’s, were not run out of his command post. He did say there were a lot of bodies with unexplained gun shot wounds. Ones that were not already documented as NOPD or LSP shootings. Never were solved.
–Anonymous NY State Police Officer who assisted in New Orleans

In an hour-long conversation I had with four Blackwater men, they characterized their work in New Orleans as “securing neighborhoods” and “confronting criminals.” They all carried automatic assault weapons and had guns strapped to their legs. Their flak jackets were covered with pouches for extra ammunition.

When asked what authority they were operating under, one guy said, “We’re on contract with the Department of Homeland Security.” Then, pointing to one of his comrades, he said, “He was even deputized by the governor of the state of Louisiana. We can make arrests and use lethal force if we deem it necessary.” The man then held up the gold Louisiana law enforcement badge he wore around his neck. Blackwater spokesperson Anne Duke also said the company has a letter from Louisiana officials authorizing its forces to carry loaded weapons.

“This vigilantism demonstrates the utter breakdown of the government,” says Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “These private security forces have behaved brutally, with impunity, in Iraq. To have them now on the streets of New Orleans is frightening and possibly illegal.”
-From a CBS report and column by Jeremy Schahill

Rumors persisted while we were in New Orleans, things ranging from the crazy (some Cops were killed and skinned last night) to the lame (I hear we are here till Christmas). Like any deployment, we hated being in the rear. Every minute spent at the Naval Annex was another minute you could get screwed just for being there. One instance comes to mind, when the commanding general flew in and saw us practicing battle drills and glass houses. He freaked out and demanded that we tear that stuff down and don’t do it. Well, as soon as his bird took off we had those things set right back up. I was exposed to government agencies and it made me realize something, this was their “Iraq.” There were rumors of DEA, US Marshals and ATF getting into OIF style engagements. I personally didn’t see or hear of anything like that, but these dudes rolled around like it was Baghdad/Ramadi/Normandy.
-82nd Airborne Soldier

Conclusion

Our goal at this point should not be about pointing fingers and conducting witch hunts. As a country, we should admit the errors that were made, and seek to learn from them. This will only come through intelligent discussion, not the usual polarized rhetoric.  We need to realize that we’re all Americans, and that every one of us has a share and stake in what goes on in this country for better or worse.

Let’s make a clear choice to learn not to make the same mistakes next time a disaster like this happens. Because there will be a next time, and I expect it will be sooner rather than later.

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ETA: He released this story 2 months after Kyle was murdered.

Roughly only about 33 bodies with gun shot wounds were recovered in the days following Katrina. This included all the police shootings also.

The problem also with the superdome stories is all the folks that were gathered on the bridges right next to it with all the reporters.

Or someone who had no credibility made up a story using a dead persons name to advance his own agenda?