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Reports: Bill McRaven resigns from Pentagon board after op-ed criticizing Trump
The Statesman ^ | 9/14/2018 | Katie Hall

Posted on 09/14/2018 11:39:26 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Bill McRaven, former chancellor of the University of Texas System and a current UT-Austin professor, resigned on Aug. 20 from the Pentagon’s technology advisory board, multiple news outlets reported Thursday.

His resignation came four days after The Washington Post published an opinion piece he wrote that criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan.

“Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation,” McRaven wrote. “If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken.”

The board McRaven resigned from was a group of technology leaders and innovators tasked with advising the secretary of defense.

McRaven, a retired four-star admiral and Navy SEAL, teaches classes at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He majored in journalism at UT.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20180816; 20180820; billmcraven; binladenraid; brennan; cia; dumbass; extortion17; johnbrennan; journalism; mcraven; seal; securityclearances; trumpdod; usnavyseal; washpo
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To: Snickering Hound

we used to have a patriotic rat party......those days are long gone....


61 posted on 09/14/2018 12:25:02 PM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: piasa
Interesting, given that the op to get bin Laden was undertaken to make Obama look good in an election year, and left the informant who helped bag bin Laden behind in Pakistan where he was thrown in prison.

More interesting that he put in for retirement after ISIS took Mosul in June 2014 when he was head of United States Special Operations Command.

62 posted on 09/14/2018 12:25:15 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Yes and Benedict Arnold was very accomplished too!


63 posted on 09/14/2018 12:25:37 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Snickering Hound
Heh, heh. He’s one who purposely dropped his soap...
64 posted on 09/14/2018 12:26:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Mark17
Yep. I'm sure his "resignation to spend more time with family" was actually him coming back to the office to find his personal effects boxed up, his boss saying, "I need your keycard, govt-issued laptop, and cell phone--NOW," and an envelope with his termination letter.

Q: What do you call 500 former general/flag officers being fired from their Washington jobs?

A: A good start.

65 posted on 09/14/2018 12:26:41 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: DariusBane

I assume he is protecting his military retirement check by resigning.


I assume he is resigning from a do nothing military board and keeps on cashing the do nothing corporate BOD checks he is no doubt on.


66 posted on 09/14/2018 12:28:38 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Starboard

What has embarrassed us and our children are the actions of the Democrats in the confirmation hearings.


67 posted on 09/14/2018 12:30:05 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: odawg

Really does seem like McRavencain is preparing to run for office as a Democrat.


68 posted on 09/14/2018 12:30:15 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

The rats in the confirmation hearings were so bad that Canada and Mexico are also embarrassed.


69 posted on 09/14/2018 12:34:04 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: cherry

McRaven is probably planning on running against empty suit Cornyn in 2020. That’s why he is hysterically channeling Corey Booker these days.


70 posted on 09/14/2018 12:37:32 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Bye asshole we don’t need you. Patriots only.


71 posted on 09/14/2018 12:39:50 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Yep. I'm sure his "resignation to spend more time with family" was actually him coming back to the office to find his personal effects boxed up, his boss saying, "I need your keycard, govt-issued laptop, and cell phone--NOW," and an envelope with his termination letter.

That’s entirely possible. I am wondering how many more are out there like this? If we have a civil war, I don’t think we can completely rely on the military, to be on our side.

72 posted on 09/14/2018 12:42:17 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Snickering Hound

Ouch.

Wasn’t it under Bill Clinton back in the early 90s, around the time of the Tailhook scandal that cleared out a lot of Navy aviators - that a high-ranking black SEAL commander was forced out? I wonder who benefitted by his removal?


73 posted on 09/14/2018 12:42:56 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Doogle

Journalism? How did that prepare him to be an Admiral?

The loon must have swallowed too much sea water. His brain is soft.
My memory of fellow USAF Officers was that we were a conservative minded group and no one spoke badly of the leadership at the time, Kennedy and LBJ. We may not have voted for them but they were the CINCs.


74 posted on 09/14/2018 12:43:31 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket do ya?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I still haven’t seen anything that shows he wrote that op-ed.

Anyone have a link to one that does?


75 posted on 09/14/2018 12:43:43 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
ADM William H. McRaven 2012.jpg Weeny McRaven

Correction, or perhaps not, William

76 posted on 09/14/2018 12:46:38 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Mark17

You can bet your britches that Darth Mattis read him the riot act, USMC style.


77 posted on 09/14/2018 12:46:43 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Swamp creature by extension. Good riddance


78 posted on 09/14/2018 12:50:02 PM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: BatGuano

Clinton and Odungo purged the military ...got rid of many good people


79 posted on 09/14/2018 12:54:48 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: VanShuyten
I still haven’t seen anything that shows he wrote that op-ed.

Anyone have a link to one that does?

I am thinking, if he didn’t write it, he would have been shouting that, from the roof tops.

80 posted on 09/14/2018 12:55:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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