Did 10 Former Defense Secretaries’ Op-Ed Delay Military Defense Of The U.S. Capitol?

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 Did 10 Former Defense Secretaries’ Op-Ed Delay Military Defense Of The U.S. Capitol?

Former defense secretaries share responsibility for delaying a professional military response that might have protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

By Elaine Donnelly
May 17, 2021

Last week, Politico reported that some current and former military leaders are freaking out because 124 retired “Flag Officers 4 America” dared to post a public letter stating at the top, “Our Nation is in deep peril.” Politico’s headline described the volunteer veterans’ “Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals” as “disturbing and reckless.”

The letter triggered critics by addressing several issues, such as the border crisis, China and Iran, the Keystone Pipeline, crime, freedom of speech, Big Tech, election security, misuse of the military, and a “hard left turn toward Socialism and a Marxist form of tyrannical government.”

The retired officers also encouraged citizens to get involved in local, state, and national politics to elect “representatives who will act to Save America [and] our Constitutional Republic.” These ideas are hardly radical, but several military “experts” slammed the open letter as “shameful,” “anti-democratic,” “angry,” “out of bounds,” “shocking,” and “dangerous.”

No such criticism was heard on Jan. 3 when ten former secretaries of defense published a Washington Post op-ed warning Pentagon officials that they must “refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election.”

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney orchestrated the op-ed, which was based on speculation that President Trump might stage a military coup against the incoming Biden administration. Joining Cheney were co-signers James Mattis, Mark Esper, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Donald Rumsfeld, Ashton Carter, Leon Panetta, William Perry, and Robert Gates.

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/17/did-10-former-defense-secretaries-op-ed-delay-military-defense-of-the-u-s-capitol/

[Sled Dog]

Predictably the fascistic media will only complain about groups of "formers" when that group's posted letter is supportive of the United states.

Such a letter violates their Narrative policy of treason.

[Fishrrman]

Title and presumption:
"Did 10 Former Defense Secretaries’ Op-Ed Delay Military Defense Of The U.S. Capitol?"

Why have a "military defense of the U.S. Capital" at all?
There was no threat to it, nor to the people in it.

Although, I would assert that as of late, a military defense of the Capital has become necessary...
... to cleanse the building of the communists who now inhabit it as well as the rest of the government offices in DC...

[Bigun]

Title and presumption:
"Did 10 Former Defense Secretaries’ Op-Ed Delay Military Defense Of The U.S. Capitol?"

Why have a "military defense of the U.S. Capital" at all?
There was no threat to it, nor to the people in it.

Although, I would assert that as of late, a military defense of the Capital has become necessary...
... to cleanse the building of the communists who now inhabit it as well as the rest of the government offices in DC...

  brother!   

In the 1950s a United States senator from Wisconsin was shouting about the FACT that our government was being heavily infiltrated with communists. He has since been conclusively proven correct yet a great many STILL refuse to believe it.