Opinion

Jamming the general

Meanwhile, in other Washington scandal news, a four-star Air Force general has reportedly told House members that the White House pressured him to cook his testimony about a potentially disastrous technology backed by Obama donors.

As Eli Lake reported in the Daily Beast, Gen. William Shelton, who heads Air Force Space Command, last week informed a classified oversight committee hearing about Team Obama’s push to alter his testimony to aid broadband company LightSquared.

LightSquared is building a wireless 4G satellite network the Pentagon worries will interfere with high-precision GPS signals and could well disrupt military operations, affecting everything from maps to missiles.

But the company has some well-placed backers — including majority owner Philip Falcone, a hedge-fund billionaire who tossed $60,000 at the Democratic Party in 2009.

Plus, CEO Sanjiv Ahuja made a $30,400 contribution to the Democrats the very day reps from LightSquared went to the White House for a meeting — and company lawyers made sure to notify Obama staffers.

But Gen. Shelton’s opinion threatened their $14 billion venture, and the White House tried to “influence” and “bias his testimony,” said Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), offering details of the classified briefing.

That alone would raise eyebrows in DC and beyond, but it’s no isolated incident. It comes in the context of the Solyndra case, and with daily developments about the “Fast & Furious” gun sting that turned deadly and engendered a Justice Department cover-up.

And the beat goes on.