Posted on 06/19/2023 7:52:20 AM PDT by Twotone
When the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley enters into his scheduled retirement later this year, one of the perks will include a personal security detail to protect him from threats — including “embarrassment.”
The U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion, the Pentagon’s little-known Secret Service equivalent, is tasked with safeguarding top military brass. The unit protects current as well as former high-ranking military officers from “assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment,” according to Army records.
Protective Services’s mandate has expanded to include monitoring social media for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats and identifying “negative sentiment” regarding its wards, according to an Army procurement document dated September 1, 2022, and reviewed by The Intercept. The expansion of the Protective Services Battalion’s purview has not been previously reported.
The country’s national security machinery has become increasingly focused on social media — particularly as it relates to disinformation. Various national security agencies have spent recent years standing up offices all over the federal government to counter the purported threat.
“The ability to express opinions, criticize, make assumptions, or form value judgments — especially regarding public officials — is a quintessential part of democratic society.”
“There may be legally valid reasons to intrude on someone’s privacy by searching for, collecting, and analyzing publicly available information, particularly when it pertains to serious crimes and terrorist threats,” Ilia Siatitsa, program director at Privacy International, told The Intercept. “However, expressing ‘positive or negative sentiment towards a senior high-risk individual’ cannot be deemed sufficient grounds for government agencies to conduct surveillance operations, even going as far as ‘pinpointing exact locations’ of individuals. The ability to express opinions, criticize, make assumptions, or form value judgments — especially regarding public officials — is a quintessential part of democratic society.”
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Mark Milley is a doo doo head
there they can start with that....
Who says there’s no room for defense spending cuts?
Mark Milley is an idiotic traitor.
“threats — including “embarrassment.””
Too late you giant queer turd! You embarrassed yourself, no one did it to you.
One other thing, if we get this ship righted, we’re going to have to address you working behind the back of a duly elected president with China.
While I have seen plenty of mean tweets and comments, all well deserved, about the traitorous Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, I have to see any that are undeserved.
Even the photoshopped pictures of a “transgendered” LGBTQXYZ-promoting Milley are deserved.
Sadly, with Traitorjoe’s Puppetmasters and the current SecDefComPoop, the replacement may not be any better than Manure-Mouth Milley.
There’s no clean end on that turd.
“One other thing, if we get this ship righted, we’re going to have to address you working behind the back of a duly elected president with China.”
You can not begin to imagine how much I agree with you on that.
Didd’ims wittle feewins get hurt?
Not really related, but funny just the same:
Even John Bolton’s mustache doesn’t want to hear what he has to say 😂
https://twitter.com/MAGAMAN614/status/1670813703229386753?s=20
Thoroughly Modern Millie is an embarrassment to the country. Is there a special unit to protect the country from this embarrassing fool?
“The U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion protects current as well as former high-ranking military officers from “assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment,” according to Army records.
I am fine as far as threats of assassination, kidnapping or injury are concerned. But mere “embarrassment” is not a “threat”, except if the U.S. military wrongly things that to defend a stupid former officer is to “protect” the services from “embarraassment”. THAT is not a legimate concern and not a legitimate cause for monitorin social media.
What are the looking for?
Is it stuff like “General Milley is a Faggot!”?
Mean tweets??? Glad I never posted the photo of Milley with thick red lipstick.
well looks like about 10 on the list so far .....
Do you suppose we’ll be on the same cell block ?
I wonder what they’ll serve for lunch ...?
great picture by the way
BINGO
Indeed some were in the service and some served in the service.
AKA D.C. chrome
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