ok, so Lieutenant Colonel Dominic Caraccilo took the credit for the letter writing campaign, but who was really behind it?
"I should explain something about the military for readers unfamiliar. No Lieutenant Colonel -- a person with around 15 years in the Officer Personnel Management System, one of the most ruthlessly unforgiving bureaucratic ladders in existence, where someone is always waiting for you to fuck up -- is unilaterally going to cook up and carry out something this harebrained. He doesn't have the time under normal circumstances, because running an infantry battalion that is deployed into a hostile fire zone is very time-consuming, and he doesn't want to commit career suicide five years from his eligibility to draw a pension."
http://counterpunch.org/goff10172003.html