Posted on 09/29/2021 11:54:49 PM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday apologized to Gen. Mark Milley for what she called "despicable" questioning of the top military general by fellow Republican lawmakers during a congressional hearing, as the Joint Chiefs chairman fielded questions about comments he made following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and phone calls he had with a Chinese official to assure them that the U.S. was not preparing an attack.
Cheney, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing about the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, opened her five minutes of questioning by discussing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, arguing that some lawmakers “failed to do their duty.”
Cheney is one of two Republicans to sit on the select committee probing the riots, along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.).
“In the aftermath of that attack, many of the members of our constitutional system failed to do their duty. Many of them punted, many of them today are still attempting to obstruct the investigation into that attack, attempting to whitewash what happened,” Cheney said.
She was referring to the refusal by a number of GOP lawmakers to vote to certify the 2020 presidential election results in certain states that former President Trump lost, and Republicans’ opposition to taking part in the House’s probe of the attack.
Cheney criticized fellow Republican on the panel for questioning the general’s loyalty to the U.S., calling the actions “despicable.”
“For any member of this committee, for any American, to question your loyalty to our nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, your loyalty to our Constitution, your recognition and understanding of the civilian chain of command, is despicable,” Cheney said.
“I want to apologize for those members of this committee who've done so, and I want to thank you for standing in the breach when so many, including many in this room, failed to do so,” she added.
Several GOP representatives questioned the Joint Chiefs chairman about a conversation he had with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) following the Jan. 6 attack, and alleged phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart pertaining to a potential attack by the U.S.
The revelations were first reported in the book “Peril,” written by veteran journalist Bob Woodward and The Washington Post’s Robert Costa.
The book details a phone call between Milley and Pelosi, in which the general agreed with the Speaker’s interpretation that Trump was “crazy.”
The book also reports that Milley spoke with Chinese General Li Zuocheng to reassure his counterpart that the U.S. was not preparing a strike against China, and to note that America was not on the brink of collapse following the Jan. 6 attack.
Milley defended the phone calls during Wednesday’s hearing, arguing that he would never “tip off the enemy about what the United States is going to do in an actual plan.”
A number of Republicans used the bombshell reports to question the general’s credibility.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) said Milley’s call with Li went against the U.S. and is “worthy of your resignation.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) accused Milley of “undermining the chain of command.”
“You said yesterday that you weren't going to resign when senators asked you this question, and I believe that you guys probably won't resign,” Gaetz said, according to NBC News. "You seem to be very happy failing up over there. But if we didn't have a president that was so addled, you all would be fired.”
Warkunt
Liz just keeps digger herself deeper into the Stupid Pool!
I’m really starting to hate that creature, ‘Chainey’. At the very least she should be honest and change to (D-MIC) (Military Industrial Complex)
Cheney has already accepted she’s going to lose next year and is going to be a total ass in the U.S. House until her final day in office in January 2023.
The NWO crowd are becoming more brazen.
Oh, for crying out loud. Now she’s just trolling with this kind of sycophancy.
When she loses her congressional seat, she will be brought onboard at CNN or MSNBC as an in-house fake conservative.
bootliccker
What a despicable person she is.
How dare they expect him to answer questions about a disaster he participated in!
I’m still doing some digging trying to find out why Trump appointed Gen. Milley to the position of Chairman of the JCS.
Sesstarting to ask me wonder what kind,of asshole her father was.
“When she loses her congressional seat, she will be brought onboard at CNN or MSNBC as an in-house fake conservative”
Yep, Ana Navarro “light”
Didn’t Cheney remark that many in the room were also at the January 6th surge?
Can we just kick her out of the party and be done with it?
A-hole Kinzinger is right there with her.
Cheney is a Democrat.
Stripping her of all her committee assignments is a start. She’s not even attempting to appear to be a Republican anymore, just an openly-out Derp State Demonrat Stalinazi warmongering *unt.
Ok, if someone were to wish some type of horrible disease on this person, does that make them a bad person? Asking for a friend... “No, that’s my friend’s voodoo doll”.
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