On March 5, 2007 Staff Sergeant Shannon testified before Congress about how democrats ruined the U.S. military, specifically, Walter Reed hospital. Sgt. Shannon described the number of squirrels, rats and mold he saw a liberal personally sneak into the hospital. An unnamed spokesperson who works in an office really close to the one Shannon works in, insisted he heard from someone that someone else who matched the description of Shannon (technically it was someone in some kind of uniform) tell another someone on the phone, the following quasi-quote: