Milley-Vacilli

 

So the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before Congress today. He told us he was always doing what was right for the country, whether that meant conducting illegal secret negotiations with our greatest enemy, suborning the authority of the CIC with his own Pentagon staff, libeling the president he served to multiple muckraker writers and publications, or conversely, rubber stamping the insane and disastrous Biden exit strategy from Afghanistan that leaves his country humiliated, American troops dead, American civilians trapped behind enemy lines, and himself defiant and unrepentant. Herewith some excerpts of Breitbart reporting from the hearings. Italicized comment is my own.

Gen. Mark Milley confirmed Tuesday he leaked extensive details of President Donald Trump’s presidency to several journalists writing books about his administration. Under questioning from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Milley confirmed he spoke to the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward for his book Peril, coauthored with Robert Costa, as well as Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker for their book I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, and the Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender for his book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost. Milley is a key source for the Woodward and Costa book, detailing his frustration with President Trump and his staff on the handling of the Summer 2020 riots. He also detailed his disagreement with his June 2020 walk with law enforcement officials and President Trump to St. John’s Church outside Lafayette Square after it was burned by rioters the night before.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley on Tuesday addressed for the first time publicly allegations from a recently published book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. The book, published last week, alleges Milley had two backchannel calls with his Chinese counterpart on October 30, 2020, and January 8, 2021, to reassure him the United States was not going to attack China and if it was, he would give China a heads-up. Another allegation was that Milley held a meeting with senior military leaders and told them not to follow orders from Trump unless he was personally notified.

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“I understand that you’re the principal military adviser, but you don’t decide, the president decides, but if all this is true, General Milley, why haven’t you resigned?” Cotton asked.

“Senator, as a senior military officer,” Milley began, “resigning is a really serious thing. It’s a political act if I’m resigning in protest.” [But leaking confidential information about the president to the press while you are still a serving military officer is NOT a political act?]

“I’m not going to resign,” Milley declared. “If the orders were illegal, that’s different. But if they’re legal from a civilian authority, I intend to carry them out.”

“My job is to provide advice. My statutory responsibility is to provide legal advice or best military advice to the president, and that’s my legal requirement. That’s what the law is,” Milley said. “The president doesn’t have to agree with that advice. He doesn’t have to make those decisions just because we’re generals.”

“It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken. This country doesn’t want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not. That’s not our job,” Milley added. [But ordering your own staff not to follow FUTURE orders of the president is NOT a political, treasonous act? Horseshit.]