{"id":117519,"date":"2021-09-14T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117519"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:10:26","slug":"after-6-jan-did-gen-milley-commit-treason-or-prepare-for-a-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117519","title":{"rendered":"After 6 Jan, did Gen Milley commit treason or prepare for a coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several days back Poetrooper sent to me this Open Letter to General Mark Milley<\/a>. In said letter a retired FBI agent and former Army officer laments how Milley impugns all those who attended the 6 January 2021 rally. In accordance with media practice from the last year and a half, the 6 Jan event was the epitome of “mostly peaceful.” I do wonder how the author of that piece feels about the latest revelations on General Milley.<\/p>\n

It seems Bob Woodward, who has struggled to maintain relevance since he rocketed to fame in his uncovering the Watergate Scandal conspiracy (and along the way done such things as out an undercover CIA operative), has a new book out.\u00a0Peril<\/em>, co written with Robert Costa, carries the description, “The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history.”\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, soooooo dangerous.<\/p>\n

Apparently it was so unbelievably dangerous that the country’s highest ranking military officer used the 6 January event as a pretext to usurp the civilian control of America’s military. He also engaged in back-channel communications with our biggest foreign adversary (who just a year prior had unleashed a literal plague on the Earth). If (and it is in deed a solidly large “IF”) Woodward and Costa are to be believed, Milley was setting the stage to commit something akin to treason or lying the groundwork for a coup of the sitting President of the United States. Check this stuff out.<\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump’s top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to “Peril,” a new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward and veteran Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.<\/p>\n

Woodward and Costa write that Milley, deeply shaken by the assault, ‘was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.’<\/p>\n

Milley worried that Trump could ‘go rogue,’ the authors write.<\/p>\n

“You never know what a president’s trigger point is,” Milley told his senior staff, according to the book.<\/p>\n

In response, Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon’s war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.<\/p>\n

“No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood.<\/p>\n

“Got it?” Milley asked, according to the book.<\/p>\n

“Yes, sir.”<\/p>\n

‘Milley considered it an oath,’ the authors write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Milley was having senior US military commanders swear an oath? Oh, but it gets worse.<\/p>\n

Milley’s fear was based on his own observations of Trump’s erratic behavior. His concern was magnified by the events of January 6 and the ‘extraordinary risk’ the situation posed to US national security, the authors write.<\/p>\n

Milley had already had two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general, who was on high alert over the chaos in the US.<\/p>\n

Then Milley received a blunt phone call from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to the book. Woodward and Costa exclusively obtained a transcript of the call, during which Milley tried to reassure Pelosi that the nuclear weapons were safe.<\/p>\n

Pelosi pushed back.<\/p>\n

“What I’m saying to you is that if they couldn’t even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, who even knows what else he may do? And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?”<\/p>\n

Pelosi continued, “You know he’s crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time.”<\/p>\n

According to Woodward and Costa, Milley responded, “Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything.”<\/p>\n

After the call, Milley decided he had to act. He told his top service chiefs to watch everything “all the time.” He called the director of the National Security Agency, Paul Nakasone, and told him, “Needles up … keep watching, scan.” And he told then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, “Aggressively watch everything, 360.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source, but I don’t suggest following the link to the king of fake news media. Here are alternative sources; American Military News<\/a> and Red State.<\/a><\/p>\n

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