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Trump’s Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon’s Tolerance
NYT ^ | Dec 1, 2019 | Dave Philipps, Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Helene Cooper

Posted on 12/01/2019 10:27:30 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: where's_the_Outrage?
While he boasts of supporting the military, he has come to distrust the generals and admirals who run it.

Very stable genius

41 posted on 12/01/2019 10:56:03 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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The highest ranks in the Navy insisted Chief Gallagher be held accountable.

After he'd been acquitted.

The bunch of them need to be cashiered.

42 posted on 12/01/2019 10:56:14 AM PST by jdege
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Just when you think the Slimes has trickled into the lowest possible spot, somehow it finds an even lower one . Four more PMS flunk the test on the U.S. Constitution.

Partisan Media Shills update.


43 posted on 12/01/2019 10:56:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So Truman fired MacArthur who, supported by his staff, wanted to nuke China. How come Truman wasn’t impeached (he “overruled the chain of command”)? I missed the part of the Constitution that says the Armed Forces are a separate, independent part of Government.


44 posted on 12/01/2019 10:57:22 AM PST by RAldrich (I)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Fake News outlets are “testing my tolerance”.


45 posted on 12/01/2019 10:57:58 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I sat on an Administrative Board to consider the dismissal of a West Point cadet. He was a good scholar and a good athlete, but a lousy cadet and a poor candidate for a commission (the real purpose of the U.S. Military Academy). The Board was long, detailed, and in the end, recommended dismissal. Both the Commandant and the Superintendent agreed, but the Secretary of the Army, disagreed and he was retained and commissioned. The Secretary of Defense and the President, Jimmy Carter, could have overturned the decision, but they agreed with it, so it stood. We did our duty, but in the end the Commander in Chief had the final say.

This moron Secretary of the Navy was fired for lying to the Secretary of Defense, his boss; but, he thought that the Administrative State could overrule the President. He was wrong and every like minded bureaucrat needs to go as well.


46 posted on 12/01/2019 10:58:35 AM PST by centurion316
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

All Pentagon officials have the option of quitting...


48 posted on 12/01/2019 10:58:52 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: a fool in paradise

That was Obama’s doing.
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His usurpation and all of the crimes committed were enabled by both parties.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
The founders were correct to exclude the children of foreigners.


49 posted on 12/01/2019 10:59:03 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

More NYT BS.

Remember Bergdahl, Manning....


50 posted on 12/01/2019 10:59:24 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: gibsonguy

re: “He is the CIF a-holes. Why does it seem take 3-4 people for the NYT to write their silly little articles.”

In this case, three political officers and one writer ...


51 posted on 12/01/2019 11:00:05 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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Good one.


52 posted on 12/01/2019 11:00:55 AM PST by gibsonguy
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Tested the Tolerance of the 0bamanite Perfumed Political Princes at the Pentagon, Huh?

Well I got news for you bastards; PRESIDENT TRUMP is the COMMANDER IN CHIEF, and you jump when he says jump. If he asks for your opinion, then you may give it. But you do as he requests, or resign immediately, and either way, you keep your mouth shut.


53 posted on 12/01/2019 11:01:06 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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“Rather than accept information from his own government...”

Translation: he resists the deep state.


54 posted on 12/01/2019 11:01:37 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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The only test is the Pentagon failure (slowness) to obey a direct order from the C.I.C...Pentagon needs to watch it’s step I would think as they seem to be part of the problem


55 posted on 12/01/2019 11:03:02 AM PST by blueyon (`nt to be a nothing burger)
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To: pcpa

So testing the pentagons tolerance when it comes to trump is a bad thing, if it were Obama how dare they defy the president


56 posted on 12/01/2019 11:04:36 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: pcpa

That can’t be true, the ny times just said those rules were “longstanding” and stuff.


57 posted on 12/01/2019 11:04:49 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I think the Pentagon will survive this.


58 posted on 12/01/2019 11:05:46 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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What idiocy!

Like termites, Liberals/Progressives may have worked at times behind the scenes and within organizations and institutions which were not intended or suspected to be subversive to the ideas of liberty, such as the so-called "public" education system and within other entities--perhaps even military ones--which were intended to protect individual liberty (freedom for all).

The following is excerpted from a series entitled, "Lessons on Liberty," by La Vaughn G. Lewis, Co-Editor, "Our Ageless Constitution" & "Rediscovering the Ideas of Liberty." The "Lesson" contrasts the Founders' Ideas of Liberty" to be taught to rising generations, with the Counterfeit Ideas being promoted in the so-called "public schools" of America for decades.

IDEAS OF LIBERTY:

(from America’s Founders and Presidents)

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” (Jefferson - 1774)

“Statesmen may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone which can establish the principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.” (John Adams - 1775)

“The Sacred Rights of Mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” (Alexander Hamilton)

“Without God, there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first and the most basic expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will continue to be.” (Dwight Eisenhower)

“The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” (John F. Kennedy - 1961 Inaugural)

“…it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor….”(George Washington)

“Now the virtue which had been infused into the Constitution…and was to give it…the stability and duration to which it was destined, was no other than…those abstract principles…proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence—namely, the self-evident truths of the…unalienable rights of man…the…sovereignty of the people, always subordinate to a rule of right and wrong, and always responsible to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the rightful exercise of that sovereign…power.” (John Quincy Adams, on the occasion of The Jubilee of the Constitution - 1839)

"Today, across our nation, we see consequences of decades of gross neglect and outright censorship of the Founders’ ideas from textbooks and from our public discourse. We have allowed counterfeit ideas to dominate the public square, and the Founders’ principles have been crowded out. Unwittingly, many teachers and other unknowing officials have participated in the agenda of an unelected mind-controlling elite whose tyrannical actions have robbed generations of Americans from reading or studying the ideas that made America free. Like termites, they have eroded our foundations as effectively as if they had burned the books. Yet, not once have they been willing to call it by its rightful name—censorship. Once, in America, stifling ideas about the Creator and Creator-endowed liberty was considered unthinkable. . . .

"The ideas of liberty must be passed on from generation to generation if liberty is to survive. These ideas, when they are allowed to be examined freely, will prevail, because their appeal is to reason and to the love for liberty that is deep in the human heart. John Adams warned: “The people of America now have the best opportunity and the greatest trust in their hands, that Providence ever committed to so small a number…if they betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of Heaven.”

59 posted on 12/01/2019 11:08:35 AM PST by loveliberty2 (`)
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The Damn Pentagon serves at the pleasure of the President. Not the other way around.


60 posted on 12/01/2019 11:11:18 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA! Epstein did not kill himself! Eric Ciaramella, ERIC CIARAMELLA, ERICCIARAMELLA!)
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