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Why has he not been court martialed/arrested yet?

(09-16-2021 11:34 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: [ -> ]Why has he not been court martialed/arrested yet?

Because the corrupt cover for each other...

(09-16-2021 11:37 AM)gdunn Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-16-2021 11:34 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: [ -> ]Why has he not been court martialed/arrested yet?

Because the corrupt cover for each other...

This one can't even be covered up.

Vindman Says General Milley Should Resign

Quote:The General Milley story is getting even more complicated and deeper than was originally reported.

For starters, retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was the key witness against President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial and who has not shown himself to be a big fan of Trump, called for General Milley to resign if the accusations made in a new book about him are true.

The book, “Peril,” which was co-authored by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, alleges that Milley reached out to his Chinese counterpart to assure him that he would warn him if Trump initiated a strike against China.

“If this is true GEN Milley must resign. He usurped civilian authority, broke Chain of Command, and violated the sacrosanct principle of civilian control over the military. It’s an extremely dangerous precedent. You can’t simply walk away from that,” Vindman said on Twitter.

Local Blob Creature John Bolton Says Traitor Milley Is A-Okay

Quote:Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, the mustached, warmonger swamp creature, defended Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley in light of reports that the general made “secret” calls to his counterpart in communist China while President Donald Trump was in office.

“His patriotism is unquestioned,” Bolton said, going on to justify the general’s possible treason because he was under pressure.

Bolton’s rush to defend his former colleague might have meant something once upon time, but not anymore. Not after Bolton fabricated intel in order to start wars, nearly destroyed Afghan negotiations by opposing meetings with Taliban leaders, and wrote his Trump admin tell-all in which he plays the hero of every chapter and everyone who disagrees with him is an idiot.

Instead of clearing Milley’s name, Bolton’s defense is a further indictment of just how far corruption has spread. It reveals that at the highest levels of our government, elites are willing to cover for each other as they go behind the president’s back and attempt to dissolve the will of the people.

As Federalist contributor Inez Stepman wrote this week, “our media, intelligence services, government bureaucrats, and corporate overlords have kamikazed faith in every one of the institutions keeping America the stable democracy it has blessedly remained for over 200 years.” An endorsement from a swamp creature like Bolton only confirms millions of Americans’ belief that “the system is so rigged that they despair of anyone in our ruling elite being held responsible for any action, no matter how obviously over the line.”

Bolton wasn’t held responsible for his failures. He walked away with a $2 million book advance. Why would we expect anything different for Milley?

After Bolton was fired by Trump, and he walked out of the “Room Where It Happened,” he walked out for good. Now his only purpose in the swamp is to weigh in on various Trump-adjacent stories in order to stay on the lips of leftist media allies who once wanted him tried for war crimes, even if it does more harm than good for pals like Milley.

General Kellogg: Milley Must Resign Or Be Removed

Quote:If reports that Gen. Mark Milley made secret calls to Communist China’s Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army are true, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should resign or be removed, says retired Gen. Keith Kellogg.

“If what is in the Woodward book is true, then Mark Milley needs to resign or be removed from his position immediately,” the former acting National Security Adviser under President Trump said on Fox News’s “Brian Kilmeade Show.”

“He’s basically taking Article Two of the Constitution under his own wing and did not do proper service to the president of the United States,” Kellogg said. He added that Milley’s alleged behavior directly contradicts his role as an adviser to the president and the National Security Council and undermines the uniform code of military justice.

“If true, he’s violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice alone, despite what others may say about more serious actions out there,” Kellogg said. “So he’s really, truly overstepped his bounds and I think because of that, he’s lost incredible credibility with everybody that’s out there and he moved into a lane he shouldn’t have been in.”

The phone calls, Kellogg continued, are also political in nature, another contradictory element to Milley’s current role but one that he has violated before.

“He cannot give any command and control direction to combat and forces that are out there in the field,” Kellogg said. “He was clearly in a political lane, in a lane he shouldn’t have been in and I’ve never seen any chairman do that before.”

Kellogg’s fear, he said, is that President Joe Biden will refuse to remove Milley even after the general showed that he believed “he was smarter than the president, he’s the smartest guy in the room.”

“I think what you’re heading for is what we saw decades ago in that book ‘Seven Days in May’ that they made into a movie with a chairman who tried to remove the sitting president and that’s what you got. I think he’s lost all credibility,” Kellogg said.

The Pentagon’s attempts to clean up the controversy surrounding Milley by claiming then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper requested the phone call almost makes things “worse,” Kellogg suggested.

“There are only two national command authorities: it’s the President and the Secretary of Defense. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs is not in that line. He should not be calling his counterpart or anybody else out there without informing the president of the United States on what he is doing. So they violated that. Even Esper violated that,” Kellogg said. “The one who should have picked up the phone was Esper if he wanted to do it and then he should have told the president, he should have actually asked the president beforehand and said this is what he was going to do. I mean, that just shows him, very candidly, some real incompetence on the part of Esper and Milley as well.”

(09-16-2021 11:44 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-16-2021 11:37 AM)gdunn Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-16-2021 11:34 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: [ -> ]Why has he not been court martialed/arrested yet?

Because the corrupt cover for each other...

This one can't even be covered up.

Remember when the Obama administration politicized the military? I hope I'm wrong.

(09-16-2021 11:44 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-16-2021 11:37 AM)gdunn Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-16-2021 11:34 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: [ -> ]Why has he not been court martialed/arrested yet?

Because the corrupt cover for each other...

This one can't even be covered up.

It's 15 days before the start of the federal government's new fiscal year. Right now everyone is focused on getting their piece of the pie.

Nothing will happen before October.

The Dangerous Delusions of Gen. Mark Milley

Quote:The ruling class treated the Trump presidency as a singular crisis in the history of the country. From the constant shrieking of the media, one might have thought that America had fallen into the hands of a foreign occupier. Because the ruling class viewed Trump as illegitimate from the start, it cast almost all of his executive actions, no matter how prosaic, as deeply scandalous and troubling. The media ginned up endless controversies about Trump, but they never amounted to much. Most of them revolved around Trump’s infractions of taste or his deviations from this or that unimportant Beltway “norm.”

America has gone from fake crises under Trump to real ones under Biden — from a period of peace to a presidency of body bags, botched evacuations, and failed drone strikes. Yet the ruling class’s appetite for hysterical books about the Trump presidency hasn’t waned. Now Washington is excited about Bob Woodward’s take on Trump’s final days. Never mind that the biggest scandal his book has unearthed comes not from Trump but from General Mark Milley’s hyperventilating about him.

It appears that Milley, based upon imaginary fears about Trump’s mental state after January 6, committed an act of treason. According to Woodward’s book, Milley assured the Chinese that he would protect them against any military action ordered by Trump in the final days of his presidency. “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time,” Milley told a Chinese general. “It’s not going to be a surprise.”

Here we see once again that the greatest threat to America came not from Trump but from a ruling class in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Out of the feverish imagination of the ruling class came the Mueller probe, which threw the country into turmoil for years, all based on an assumption of foreign collusion that never happened. It turns out that it was our own government, under Barack Obama, that intervened the most in the 2016 election, spying on the Trump campaign without cause.

Has there every been a president more maligned and harassed for what he didn’t do than Trump? The Muellers and the Milleys pummeled him for collusion that he never committed and wars that he never started.

For a supposedly monstrous dictator, Trump was remarkably restrained and tolerant. Indeed, the whole cottage industry of anti-Trump books is the result of that tolerance: he let critics of him, such as John Bolton, into his administration. In Bolton’s case, he was mad at Trump for his lack of bellicosity. As the New York Times wrote about Bolton’s book:

…the moment he cites as the real “turning point” for him in the administration had to do with an attack on Iran that, to Bolton’s abject disappointment, didn’t happen.

In June 2019, Iran had shot down an unmanned American drone, and Bolton, who has always championed what he proudly calls “disproportionate response,” pushed Trump to approve a series of military strikes in retaliation. You can sense Bolton’s excitement when he describes going home “at about 5:30” for a change of clothes because he expected to be at the White House “all night.” It’s therefore an awful shock when Trump decided to call off the strikes at the very last minute, after learning they would kill as many as 150 people. “Too many body bags,” Trump told him. “Not proportionate.”

Bolton still seems incensed at this unexpected display of caution and humanity on the part of Trump, deeming it “the most irrational thing I ever witnessed any President do.”

This story reflects well on Trump and explains why his presidency was free of bloodshed. The ruling class has a unique capacity for straining at the gnat and swallowing the camel. It can confer respectability on George W. Bush, whose misadventures in the Middle East led to tens of thousands of innocent people dying, while shunning Trump, whose presidency was marked by peace and the absence of casualties.

Bush has now endeared himself even more to the ruling class by comparing domestic political hooligans to jihadists. Yet it is that lack of judgment in Bush — that inability to make obvious distinctions — that explains his boneheaded foreign policy. Thousands of American soldiers died as a result of it. Trump was the picture of circumspection compared to Bush.

For the most part, peace and prosperity defined the Trump presidency. In light of that, future historians will find all the fuss about it baffling and silly. As the Milley story illustrates, the most crippling, self-inflicted blows to America came not from Trump but from his paranoid critics.

America ‘Can’t Survive Treason from Within’: US Lawmakers Demand Article 15-6 Investigation of General Milley

Quote:U.S. lawmakers are demanding that the Pentagon open an Article 15-6 investigation into the actions of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley for reported conduct suggesting that he committed high treason.

The Department of Defense was notified of the lawmakers’ demands for an investigation into General Milley’s activities both prior to the November election and after the January 6 riot. Milley essentially confirmed in a statement that he twice contacted Chinese General Li Zuocheng, which follows reporting from Bob Woodward and Bob Costa in their forthcoming book “Peril.” The book relates that Milley promised the Chinese general that he would give the CCP a ‘heads up’ if the United States intended to attack under then Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump. The second call Milley made to General Li on January 8th was unauthorized, according to former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.

The letter to the Pentagon, signed by 27 members of the House of Representatives, was first obtained by the Daily Caller’s Henry Rodgers. It can be read below:

“We are gravely concerned with General (GEN) Mark Milley’s ability to exercise his duties and responsibilities as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this recent case, our specific concerns involve reports from 14 September 2021, which indicate that GEN Milley blatantly disregarded the concept of civilian control of the military, and gave aid and comfort to America’s principal adversary, the Chinese Communist Party,” the lawmakers wrote. “We request a formal AR 15-6 Investigation commence immediately with regard to these allegations.”

The demand for an investigation was spearheaded by Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), who has a background with more than 38 years of U.S. Army service. He provided the Daily Caller with a statement on his rationale for the investigation into General Milley.

“It’s said a nation can survive its fools, but it can’t survive treason from within. Sadly for America, we’re infested with both, and it’s time to start cleaning house before it’s too late,” Perry said “No matter how many stars are on your shoulders, you’re never above your oath to support and defend the Constitution, and all those who break it must be held accountable. This investigation will ensure the truth is told and oaths have been upheld.”

On Wednesday, President Biden said that he has “great confidence in General Milley,” despite the reports of actions that would amount to high treason. General Milley has denied wrongdoing and is claiming that his phone calls amount to routine discussions between military leaders.

Jenna Ellis: Milley Should Be Court-Martialed If He Doesn’t Resign

WATCH: Gen. Milley’s Shocking Admission About ‘Commonalities’ With the Chinese Communist Party.

Quote:General Mark Milley – who participated in secret phone calls with Chinese military leaders while pledging to not carry out then-President Donald Trump’s orders – revealed he “hesitates” to call China an enemy, insisting he trusts the Chinese Communist Party to be forthright with its military ambitions in remarks unearthed by The National Pulse.

Milley – who used a treasonous backchannel to inform Chinese Communist Party officials that he would alert them ahead of U.S. military actions – divulged his view of the regime while speaking at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Land Warfare Conference in 2017.

“I would hesitate to call China an enemy. Some would say adversary. Others would say enemy. Some would say hostile. I think they are what the slide implies.”

– General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2017

The slide referenced by Milley reads: “The Modernisation of Land Forces to Deliver Land Power Decisively in an Era of Constant Competition.”

“They’re a competitor and the competition between the United States and China has a military dimension to it, but that is a far cry and that’s a long leap between that and enemy,” he added, before concluding, “there is a lot of time between now and any time the United States and China would become quote-on-quote an enemy where armed conflict were to be pursued.”

https://rumble.com/vmkj37-milley-admits-...abeli.html

RUSI, an establishment British think-tank, summarized Milley’s speech by noting “China and the United States are competitors, not enemies” in a tweet from the event.

Gen Milley at #RUSILWC; China and the United States are competitors, not enemies. But, that competition does have a military aspect.

— RUSI (@RUSI_org) June 27, 2017

Speaking about his worldview regarding China, Milley admitted “that is a construct, though, that we use, that I use within the United States Army” at the event which he noted had Chinese Communist Party military officers in attendance.

“There’s a lot of commonality, areas of common interest.”

In addition to his rejection of the belief that the Chinese Communist Party is not an enemy of the United States, Milley also reveals he takes the regime “at their word” concerning their military ambitions:

The Chinese military is clearly and unambiguously developing a very modern, capable military. Why are they doing that? The Chinese have their own reasons, but they have clearly published it in unclassified documents. I believe them. I take them at their word. I believe the declaratory policy, that they want to assert themselves and be a co-equal partner with the United States on the global scene and they want to dominate the region in general and assert their historical rights.

The Chinese Communist Party has run influence operations across the United States and Europe for decades, culminating in the bribery of public officials, as well as outright propaganda successes.

More and more, it sure seems like maybe some here should have taken their own advice and not jumped to immediate conclusions.

(09-16-2021 04:17 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: [ -> ]WATCH: Gen. Milley’s Shocking Admission About ‘Commonalities’ With the Chinese Communist Party.

Quote:General Mark Milley – who participated in secret phone calls with Chinese military leaders while pledging to not carry out then-President Donald Trump’s orders – revealed he “hesitates” to call China an enemy, insisting he trusts the Chinese Communist Party to be forthright with its military ambitions in remarks unearthed by The National Pulse.

Milley – who used a treasonous backchannel to inform Chinese Communist Party officials that he would alert them ahead of U.S. military actions – divulged his view of the regime while speaking at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Land Warfare Conference in 2017.

“I would hesitate to call China an enemy. Some would say adversary. Others would say enemy. Some would say hostile. I think they are what the slide implies.”

– General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2017

The slide referenced by Milley reads: “The Modernisation of Land Forces to Deliver Land Power Decisively in an Era of Constant Competition.”

“They’re a competitor and the competition between the United States and China has a military dimension to it, but that is a far cry and that’s a long leap between that and enemy,” he added, before concluding, “there is a lot of time between now and any time the United States and China would become quote-on-quote an enemy where armed conflict were to be pursued.”

https://rumble.com/vmkj37-milley-admits-...abeli.html

RUSI, an establishment British think-tank, summarized Milley’s speech by noting “China and the United States are competitors, not enemies” in a tweet from the event.

Gen Milley at #RUSILWC; China and the United States are competitors, not enemies. But, that competition does have a military aspect.

— RUSI (@RUSI_org) June 27, 2017

Speaking about his worldview regarding China, Milley admitted “that is a construct, though, that we use, that I use within the United States Army” at the event which he noted had Chinese Communist Party military officers in attendance.

“There’s a lot of commonality, areas of common interest.”

In addition to his rejection of the belief that the Chinese Communist Party is not an enemy of the United States, Milley also reveals he takes the regime “at their word” concerning their military ambitions:

The Chinese military is clearly and unambiguously developing a very modern, capable military. Why are they doing that? The Chinese have their own reasons, but they have clearly published it in unclassified documents. I believe them. I take them at their word. I believe the declaratory policy, that they want to assert themselves and be a co-equal partner with the United States on the global scene and they want to dominate the region in general and assert their historical rights.

The Chinese Communist Party has run influence operations across the United States and Europe for decades, culminating in the bribery of public officials, as well as outright propaganda successes.

Well. If you are going to bomb them it is pretty safe to say they are your enemy.

So the Chinese were calling to make sure Milley would let them know if the President, who never threatened war against them, would let them know if there was an attack?

Someone is scrambling to CHA.

(09-17-2021 08:44 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]More and more, it sure seems like maybe some here should have taken their own advice and not jumped to immediate conclusions.

So this was pretty much a Deep State undertaking? No surprise there.

Okay, someone on Twitter has decided to spin the whole thing and that makes it gospel for commietom. If it was some conservative news on Twitter he'd laugh it off. Hypocrisy defined.

So when are they impeaching Trump because of this?

What about the call in October before the election? So China called him and they asked for a head's up if they were going to be attacked? Am I supposed to feel better now?

If the President didn’t know and the acting Secretary of Defense didn’t know then whoever was in on it went around them and acted out of their chain of command. Treason by any other name

(09-17-2021 08:52 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: [ -> ]Okay, someone on Twitter has decided to spin the whole thing and that makes it gospel for commietom. If it was some conservative news on Twitter he'd laugh it off. Hypocrisy defined.

Jennifer Griffin is a reporter for Fox News. She's worked for them for decades.

Mark Milley And His Ilk Are Disgracing The U.S. Military To The Entire World

Quote:Excerpts from the new book “Peril,” by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political correspondent Robert Costa, revealed Tuesday that Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretly called his Chinese counterpart Gen. Li Zuocheng to assure him the United States would not initiate an armed conflict. The authors did not disclose the source of the phone calls, but if true, this is an egregious case of dereliction of duty and in line with the modern military’s turn from a machine of war to an institution infatuated with its elitism and filled with disdain for the Americans who make up its ranks.

The last institution Americans regarded with respect, the last haven beyond rank political division, has finally revealed the last betrayal of American trust. And we shouldn’t be surprised.

Today we encounter a military consumed not with real threats from our real enemies in China, but, as Milley stated in his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee in June, too interested in understanding “white rage.” His desire to assure Congress of his commitment to delve into the politics of critical race theory undermines the long-held and crucial doctrine of military cohesion without regard to race, class, or religion.

This is the natural end of what has been a steady march toward a politicized woke-force that covers for the ineptitude of leaders obsessed with their own power. It’s a dangerous turn away from what has been the mission of our military since its inception: to fight and win wars. Now it is a vessel for an elite class to rise through the ranks of power and influence in Washington, D.C., without having to be accountable for the feckless behavior that leads to endless wars, disgraceful exits, and disregard for an institution that should project power, not fold under it.

Politicization of the Military
The more vehemently they deny any political interests in a supposedly apolitical institution, the more entangled in their own lies and ideology these elites become. Back in 2015, in remarks to the U.S. Coast Guard graduating class, then-President Obama declared climate change to be a serious threat to national security. It was a move to subsume the political debate into one of military and national security concern.

If Obama couldn’t convince the American people to sign on to drastic climate change policies, he could convince the next generation of war fighters that the next front was an “enemy” without definition. If ever there was a breeding ground for mission creep, this was it. If the American people weren’t smart enough to understand the climate change threat, using the institution that still held respect in the hearts of most Americans was the last means to a political end.

Picking up where Obama left off, Milley undermined President Trump, then sought fame under the security blanket of the Biden administration and a sympathetic, sycophantic press. Milley is part of an unserious ruling class whose contempt for the people they are supposed to serve can hardly be concealed. As noted in his congressional testimony, he looks at the soldiers within his ranks and sees young men and women who need to spend more time understanding their white privilege, at the expense of military training.

In a June 23 Budget Request hearing, Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and the ruling class in Congress spent more time discussing supposed white supremacist threats within the military than the tragically unprepared Afghanistan exit strategy. This comes on the heels of U.S. Navy Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, defending the practice of sailors being advised to read Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist.”

Milley is embarrassed by his own actions and cowers before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her tribe of corporate media bootlickers when it appears he hasn’t paid his due to the leftist narrative against President Trump. When he apologized for making an appearance alongside President Trump walking to St. John’s Church in June of last year, he emphasized the importance of a military perceived as non-political. In a taped address aired at the graduation of the National Defense University he said, “We who wear the cloth of our nation come from the people of our nation and we must hold dear the principle of an apolitical military that is so deeply rooted in the essence of our republic.”

Self-Important Leadership
But as is the rule of the elites, they are never held to the same standards as those to which they incessantly preach. His actions to join the political fray as a one-man envoy between the United States and China prove it. The alleged calls to the Chinese reveal he thinks his own freelance diplomacy better serves American interests than the civilian leadership elected through democratic means.

Milley and the rest of his above-reproach allies in the military have too long abused the trust of the last institution that was seen as truly representative of the American spirit: an apolitical entity united in one mission to defend America and her allies. They see themselves as heroes of their own story, saving the American people from themselves and offering their own pompous self-importance as an example of why they should never be questioned or held to any standard of accountability. In reality, they’re subverting the very democracy they’re purporting to save, and destroying the military along with it.

China's Behavior Now Shows the Danger of Mark Milley's Actions

Enter Tom to start NanDoodling again.

When you commit treason, it doesnt matter who initiates the phone call.