{"id":1805254,"date":"2023-01-13T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805254"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:05:14","slug":"risky-business-biden-admin-considers-civilian-to-run-missile-defense-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/risky-business-biden-admin-considers-civilian-to-run-missile-defense-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Risky Business: Biden Admin Considers Civilian to Run Missile Defense Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frisky-business-biden-admin-considers-civilian-to-run-missile-defense-agency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805254&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON DC, OCTOBER 26, 2018: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before the start of a meeting in Washington DC with Defense Department leaders. The meeting took place in the State Dining Room of White House on October 26, 2022. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images).    <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is planning to break precedent and nominate a civilian to oversee America\u2019s missile defense operations rather than a military official, sources tell the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u2014a move that former agency chiefs say would put U.S. national security at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Vice admiral Jon Hill is the current director of U.S. Missile Defense Agency. He will retire in the latter part of this year. The Biden administration has privately told lawmakers that it can\u2019t find military leaders interested in the position and plans to nominate a civilian to lead the agency for the first time, congressional sources told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Department of Defense hasn\u2019t announced any candidates, congressional aides told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that one name being floated is the MDA\u2019s civilian executive director, Laura DeSimone, who holds the deputy role at the agency. The Pentagon did not respond when we asked for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows the Biden administration\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-scraps-sea-launched-nuclear-missile-over-military-objections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrap<\/a> the sea-launched nuclear missile program, defying the advice of senior military officials and raising concerns on Capitol Hill about the administration\u2019s seriousness on missile defense. This comes amid increased Russian nuclear attack risks, as President Joe Biden stated. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-risk-of-nuclear-armageddon-highest-since-cuban-missile-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claim<\/a> The &#8220;prospect of Armageddon&#8221; The Cuban missile crisis was the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Defense hawks on Capitol Hill are concerned about civilian leadership. They also raised concerns with former MDA directors. On Friday, they sent a letter asking the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to reject non-military nominees. &#8220;increasing threats to the homeland from a widening array of sophisticated capabilities.&#8221; Senate confirmation would be required to confirm the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any suggestion that the next director could be a civilian leader should be carefully scrutinized and almost certainly rejected,&#8221; wrote former MDA directors Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O\u2019Reilly, Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering, and Vice Adm. James D. Syring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now is not the right time to experiment in the leadership of the agency most suited to defend the American against those threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is planning to break precedent and nominate a civilian to oversee America\u2019s missile defense operations rather than a military official, sources tell the Washington Free Beacon\u2014a move that former agency chiefs say would put U.S. national security at risk.<br \/>\nThe post Risky Business: Biden Admin Considers Civilian to Run Missile Defense Agency appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1780463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4496,6105,4092,3620,4284,6282,5020,3998,8746,14823],"class_list":["post-1805254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-admin","tag-agency","tag-beacon","tag-biden","tag-business","tag-civilian","tag-considers","tag-defense","tag-missile","tag-risky"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}