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If reports that CJCS Gen. Mark Milley made secret calls to Communist China\u2019s Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People\u2019s Liberation Army are true, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should resign or be removed.<\/p>\n
This is the drumbeat over revelations in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book, “Peril” which details calls between Milley and Li Zuocheng, chief of the Joint Staff Department of Beijing\u2019s Central Military Commission.<\/p>\n
First there were dozens of retired flag officers who have called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to step down, accusing them of \u201cnegligence\u201d in connection with the disastrous US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Now this.<\/p>\n
By Samuel Chamberlain A key witness in the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, \u201cmust resign\u201d if he is confirmed to have made secret calls to his Chinese counterpart in order to reassure Beijing that Trump would not order military action against the Communist superpower.<\/p>\n Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former member of the National Security Council, tweeted that if the calls were made, Milley \u201cusurped civilian authority, broke Chain of Command, and violated the sacrosanct principle of civilian control over the military.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an extremely dangerous precedent. You can\u2019t simply walk away from that,\u201d added Vindman, who concluded his post by adding a hashtag to the phrase \u201cdo the right thing in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n Details of the calls between Milley and Li Zuocheng, chief of the Joint Staff Department of Beijing\u2019s Central Military Commission, were reported by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Post in their forthcoming book \u201cPeril.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Woodward brought down the Nixon administration, and he’s never forgotten this. I’d take a wait-and-see outlook. The accusations, if true, are pretty damning. Vindman, really? Can’t make this up.<\/p>\n NY Post.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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