“
The chain of command runs from the President
to the Secretary of Defense, not through the Chairman.” - former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller
By now we all know that
according to Bob Woodward's book “Peril,”
four-star General Mark Milley, the now head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...first appointed by Obama as the Army’s Chief of Staff in 2015...went on to serve in the Trump and now the Biden administration, and is the very general who not only oversaw Biden's cowardly Afghanistan failure, but who also secretly
collaborated via a phone call on October 30th of last year and in
another phone call on January 8th of this year with his Chinese
military counterpart, one General Li Zuocheng of the People’s
Liberation Army. Done behind the back of then President Trump, Gen. Milley supposedly did so
to warn said counterpart if and when Trump was going to launch a
military strike against China...giving them a "heads up" if you will.
You can read all about that in my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig
Andresen's article, Milley - A 4 Star Threat to National Security.
In this article,
however, I will deal with the fallout and ramifications of Milley's
what would be a treasonous action, that is if the accusations being
levied against him are true, something that still has not been proven
one way or another. And why...because none of Woodward's supposed
“sources”
have come forward to either support or deny said accusations to date.
But no matter the outcome, the fact remains that neither an elected
nor an appointed official who deliberately and with malice intended
subverts the rules
governmental protocol must be allowed to
stay in office. And if the accused did have what they considered to
be legitimate concerns about the then president being unfit to hold
office...which it seems was Milley's concerns regarding President
Trump...the course of action he should have taken would have been to
abide by the recourse as laid out in the Constitution's
25th Amendment, as doing anything to
the contrary does indeed betray not only said accuser's oath of
office but our country as well.
And if all now in play
is true, what Gen. Mark Milley has committed
in his calculated decision to give
the enemy even an inkling of possible forthcoming U.S. military
action is, as
per Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution, an act of
“treason”
against these United States. How so... because while the Constitution
does specifically limit the offense of “treason”
to only two specific types of conduct, as in (1) “levying
war”
against the United States; or (2) “adhering
to [the] enemies [of the United States], giving them aid and
comfort”...what
we more commonly refer to as “aiding
and abetting”
the enemy... Milley's warning to his Chinese counterpart does indeed
meet that very criteria.
How
could it not, for these supposedly are the very words Gen. Milley
spoke to his Chinese counterpart Gen. Li, “We
are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against
you. General Li, you and I have known each other for 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.”
And
with
“treason” being
an act of
the highest order, it demands that a timely military court marshal
take place with appropriate punishment being adjudicated, if the
general was to be found guilty of treason, for his actions and words
have jeopardized our national security as well as his knowingly and
willingly putting “We the Peoples”
lives in
danger. And while the truth regarding his guilt or innocence will
take time to sort out...investigations and hearings always slow down
the judicial process whether said process be in a military or a
civilian court...I believe the general still needs to be immediately
removed from his duties for his credibility has not only been unequivocally tarnished, but he has put the all-important chain of
command in jeopardy...command where the president alone is in control of our
military...something that does not bode well for any
president's administration.
And
while some might claim that Gen. Milley was just doing his job, what with
their erroneously believing that government officials supposedly have
the go-ahead to communicate with their counterparts in other
countries, that simply is not the case for it depends on both what
capacity they're acting in and if they have the official permission to do
so. And in Milley's case he would have needed said permission from former
acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller...the man who led the
Pentagon after the 2020 election through Biden's inauguration...to
have done what he did. But, Secretary Miller, whom Gen. Milley obviously
did not tell about either of his calls neither before nor after he had
made them, has publicly stated that he
"did not and would not ever authorize"
even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which Gen. Milley was
and unfortunately still is, to secretly speak to his Chinese
counterpart without both his and the president knowing and approving
of such a conversation.
Now
it also must be remembered that Gen. Milley, even in his capacity as
the country's highest-ranking military officer, is prohibited from
exercising “executive authority”
to command our military forces, as he has but one role in the
president's administration, that is to provide “military-specific
advice”
to the president not sneak behind said president's back in an effort
to undermine his authority. And with this being what Milley, if true,
has done, is why we now find former Secretary of Defense Miller also
having publicly stated that, Milley's actions, again if true, are a
"disgraceful and unprecedented
act of insubordination,"
and therefore has called for Gen. Milley to resign “immediately.”
And
his reason for stating “immediately”
is sound for the fact is that the United States Armed
Forces, from its beginning, has as per Miller, always "operated
under the inviolable principle of civilian control of the military
through the president, as our Constitution requires.”
Therefore, as per the Constitution, Gen. Milley must now be removed
from his position for to do otherwise is in direct violation of the
rule of law.
But in today's America it seems
that for some...sadly for way far too many...the Constitution does not
matter for what are the chances of Gen. Milley ever being brought to trial
let alone being found guilty of
“treason.” Right now I'd
say little to none what with Joe Biden recently stating that,
“I
have great confidence in General Milley,” even
after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and others in Congress rightfully
asked Biden to fire Milley, the man they accused of not
only having overstepped his authority, but who did work to
“actively undermine the sitting Commander in Chief” in
his final months in office...a form of mutiny I'd say.
And so
the Democrats, as expected, are now circling the wagons around the
very general who continues to claim that his conversations with Gen.
Li were, “intended to convey reassurance to the Chinese
military and were in line with his responsibilities as chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff,”...something
we know thanks to former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller
surely is not the case.
And we
also now see Milley's own spokesman, Col. Dave Butler,
stating that Milley acted within his authority as the most
senior uniformed adviser to the president and to the Secretary of
Defense, and that the general does regularly communicate with his counterparts worldwide, including in China and Russia, in an effort to
help reduce tensions, provide clarity and avoid
“unintended
consequences or conflict.” Further stating that
“His calls
with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping
with these duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order
to maintain strategic stability,” Butler added insult to injury
by saying that,
“All calls from the chairman to his
counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated and
communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency,”
which we know simply is not true.
And so the man...the general...who also
took it upon himself to call other key military leaders from the
U.K., Russia, and Pakistan, to reassure them that the U.S. government
was strong and
“in control” forgets that President Trump
was still our president at the time he made those calls, which was on
January 6th immediately after the Capital so-called riots. And this
means that Gen. Milley again took it upon himself to speak out of line not
as an advisor to the still in office President Trump, but as a man so out
of control that he thought himself to be our country's savior.
So maybe General Mark Milley should not
only be charged with “treason” but again with mutiny as well for
his actions on both counts did exceed his authority. And besides, in
his overzealous belief that President Trump would dare to issue a
nuclear attack on China, and in his telling reporters that Democrat
lawmakers “were counting on him to avoid the disaster which we
knew could happen at any moment,” Milley's own mental
instability alone says all the truth we need to know. Case closed.
Copyright
© 2021 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.
************************************************************************************* For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, Milley - A 4-Star Threat to National Security.
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