Now, just imagine this had occurred in the latter days of the Obama administration: how would the media react? You’re barely finding the issue in most news outlets
Sen. Marco Rubio Urges President Joe Biden to Fire Gen. Mark Milley
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has called for the resignation of General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following reports that he planned to undermine President Trump and inform China of an impending attack following the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.
In a letter released on Tuesday, Rubio urged President Joe Biden to “dismiss†Mark Milley immediately, charging that he undermined the former Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces by planning to commit treason.
I write with grave concern regarding recent reporting that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to actively undermine the sitting Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces and contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These actions by General Milley demonstrate a clear lack of sound judgement, and I urge you to dismiss him immediately.
According to the upcoming book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley worried President Trump would “go rogue†and orchestrated two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general promising to inform him an attack on the Communist country were to commence.
“You and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,†Milley reportedly told his Chinese counterpart.
In his letter, Rubio stressed that Milley interfered with America’s civilian-controlled military, which could possibly “lead to war.â€
Miley should neither be fired or allowed to resign. That would be the easy way out. It would allow Milley to keep his rank and pension. Milley violated the law. He violated the Constitution. He violated his oath of office and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Any lower ranking officer would be charged, arrested, and tried. And, if convicted, would be stripped of rank, sent to jail, and given a dishonorable discharge upon completion of the sentence, with a loss of all pension. The higher the rank, the more responsible, and the higher the penalty.
I do not need to tell of you the dangers posed by senior military officers leaking classified information on U.S. military operations, but I will underscore that such subversion undermines the President’s ability to negotiate and leverage one of this nation’s instruments of national power in his interactions with foreign nations.
Even more egregiously, reports indicate that General Milley interfered with the procedures by which the civilian commander-in-chief can order a nuclear strike. He purportedly instructed officials not to take orders without his involvement and forced them to take an oath to that effect. A senior military officer interfering with that civilian-controlled process is simply unacceptable at best, and at worst, would cause ambiguity which could lead to war.
No resignation, no firing. Prosecution. Government officials need to be held accountable for their actions. Too often we’ve seen those in Power let off the hook, with few, if any, consequences.
“No resignation, no firing. Prosecution. Government officials need to be held accountable for their actions. Too often we’ve seen those in Power let off the hook, with few, if any, consequences.”
Correct, Milley should answer for his treasonous behavior in a court. No resignation, no pension, no easy way out.
Miley should answer like Pvt. Slovak did.
BTW, the Bee really understands the plight of the rich leftist virtue club:
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It was Private Slovik, not Slovak. Of the 50,000 or so American soldiers who deserted in Europe, he was the only one executed. Now KKKye wants to put General Milley against the wall for protecting America. Should he have a trial or just go straight to firing squad?
Hypocrite Elwood P. Dowd is parroting his Masters again. Dowd has no shame after being caught in numerous lies just on this website. Typical Leftist.
MILLEY knew this was coming out because hes an idiot. That is why he has embraced the left and CRT and all the bullshit the left is trying to destroy the military.
Elwood says he was trying to protect America.
IF the JCS thought that Trump was wrong, I am not sure what the best course of action would have been.
BUT I DO KNOW that informing the enemy that you are about to attack them would only get 1000’s of his own troops killed thus becoming the greatest mass murderer in the history of the USA.
Now if the attack was Say Nuclear. Does that mean he gets on the horn and says, Hey China we are launching in five minutes on your missile silos. China responds by sending 250 nukes at the USA.
Killing 50 million Americans.
I mean the list goes on and on of why HE WAS IN NO WAY PROTECTING AMERICA.
Telling the Chinese we are attacking IS NOT PROTECTING AMERICA. Having Trump restrained for doing something lunatic would have been protecting America. There was never any indication Trump ever wanted to fight a war. He even pulled back on attacking Iran after everyone was piled in the room cheering him on.
NO MILLEY WANTS WAR, after all his next job will be CEO OF RAYTHEON or BOEING OR GENERAL DYNAMICS. He was just being used by the left to stage a coup, lie to the Commander in chief.
Biden himself is now lying to us as we still have troops in SYRIA and more troops are being deployed into Africa to make up for the loss of revenue to the MIC from Afghanistan.
It means the military would disobey the lunatic tRump’s orders. As they should.
So Rimjob, being the dipshit that you are, what lunatic orders did President Trump give that the military would disobey?
Milley is a traitor to his oath and to his country.
But you seem to like traitors.
The democrat party is filled with them.
#Dumbass
Bwaha! Lolgf
Nothing will happen to him.
We should all hope that senior officials serve as a brake on lunatic chief executives such as DJT.
General Milley made America SAFER by his actions. The Chinese were receiving signals that tRump might attack China to distract from his own treasonous actions on Jan 6.
Should our military obey any command from the “commander in chief” under threat of execution? Really? If the lunatic tRump and his fluffers had their way tRump would have had a nuclear launch button on his desk with a Sharpie’d map on a flip-board to pick a target.
tRump was and is out of control.
General Milley should be applauded. It’s not surprising that the lunatic right is now using this as another diversion from their own perfidy. Idiots.
Marco Rubio should resign. Josh Hawley should resign. The entire nuGOP should disband.
You are not only a traitor, you’re fuking insane! I spit on you hateful anti American tirade. Ptooie!!!
WILEY COYOTE has become a leftist martyr. He has done exactly what he was paid to do along of course with destroying the United States Military FOR CHINA.
Notice he didn’t call RUSSIA or IRAN or NORTH KOREA?
NO HE CALLED CHINA….CHINA JOE BIDEN and HUNTER GOT TO KEEP THEIR INCOME ROLLING IN.
OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE FILLED WITH COMMUNIST CHINESE PROFESSORS. OUR MILITARY IS NO DOUBT 10 percent CCP agents. We cheer them on.
America is toast folks. The Elwoods of this country will make sure of this as Trump still reigns rent free in his head.
Anyone called Elwood has to be insane.
Good try, J, but you have no idea that the “Chinese were receiving signals†that Trump might attack. And surprise, you have no proof there was anything treasonous from Trump on Jan. 6th. In other words, just another un-supported assertion day..
jilly,
We have as much evidence that the Chinese were receiving signals as that Gen Milley is a traitor. The Chinese were quite concerned.
Defense Sec Mark Esper also called Cjhina (tRump’s pronunciation), but before Gen Milley. Both patriots were reassuring China that the lunatic tRump with all his violent rhetoric was not about to launch an ill-advised and dangerous attack.
It’s their job.
No it’s not their job. Show that to us in the job description were it says “to inform enemies of the US of impending attack so they can kill our citizens”. You’re full of shit you commie loving bastard.
You’re insane and should be in a sanitarium.
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The crazy commie sympathizer Elwood naturally sides with the traitor Gen Miley. But of course. Elwood never came down on the side of America on any issue, why should treason be any different?
He thinks because he hates Trump Miley is not only justified but heroic for commiserating with our existential enemies. Wow! What if Eisenhower told Tojo he would give him notice if crazy Truman were to try and drop an A-bomb? Would that be okay too Elwood? After all, Truman would be unleashing the first nuclear weapon. That’s a sure sign of insanity.
So Elwood is fine with a traitor like Miley giving advance notice to the Chicoms so they can nuke America killing perhaps hundreds of millions as well as our allies killing millions more.
What a piece of shit you are Elwood.
We were in a declared war with Japan who had destroyed Pearl Harbor years earlier. President Harry S Truman had the confidence of General Eisenhower. No one trusted tRump’s psychological state.
The sociopath commenter imagines that China would nuke the US for finding out the US would NOT nuke China regardless of how the sociopathic commander in chief acted. Idiot.
Listen you fuking moron, it is not the job of OUR GENERALS TO NOTIFY ENEMIEs OF IMMINENT ATTACK. That’s treason you fukin traitor.
“No one trusted tRump’s psychological state.”
Bullshit. Demofascists didn’t like Trump so they tried to make his “psychological state” an issue. Look at this senile idiot in office today and tell me about the presidents state. Trump never did anything half as insane as this fukin nut job is doing now.
Aside from the fact that Gen, Miley is in no position to judge anybody’s state except his own. You hate Trump so any thing bad for Trump you support. We understand you are in no mental state to understand the gravity of this situation. You hate Trump so you are willing to allow a military junta to determine our defense and war posture. That to us proves YOU are unstable. We are not a military junta (yet) run by bemedaled generals and secret state operators.
That is not OUR Republic and you are a traitor you filthy commie pig.
I was confident our troops could handle a force 3x’s as big as ours, not realizing the force was 6x’s bigger.
I was certain the men would fight bravely.
No one knew that the Indians had repeater rifles while my troops were using single shot carbines.
Where did they get those weapons? How has it come to this?
I think, as I lie here dying of my wounds that the country I thought I was protecting was laughing at me as I slipped into my grave.
I worry about those that will come after me. Will their efforts be undermined as were mine? Ordered to do a job only to have their duty made a mockery by the very people who task them with its undertaking.
I fear the dark. Not my death. I fear the darkness that sweeps over a soldier who is asked to fight in vain for a goal that is unclear. I fear that my mission is one of folly as I pray for success I know there is little chance to succeed. Nothing guts the fighting spirit more than distrusting those who lead them.
As I stare at the blue sky above me I pray that any General will only have one thing on his mind. And that thing is to win. Winning a battle or a war requires sacrifice and when men are no longer willing to sacrifice for those that ask them of it, then that is when we will cease to be a fighting force feared by all.