{"id":2015527,"date":"2023-08-29T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-defense-secretaries-knocking-tubervilles-pentagon-abortion-policy-protest-have-major-ties-to-americas-military-industrial-complex\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:04:38","slug":"former-defense-secretaries-knocking-tubervilles-pentagon-abortion-policy-protest-have-major-ties-to-americas-military-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-defense-secretaries-knocking-tubervilles-pentagon-abortion-policy-protest-have-major-ties-to-americas-military-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Defense Secretaries Criticizing Tuberville&#8217;s Pentagon Abortion Policy Tied to Military-Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fformer-defense-secretaries-knocking-tubervilles-pentagon-abortion-policy-protest-have-major-ties-to-americas-military-industrial-complex%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=2015527&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--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Former Defense Secretaries Accused of Ties\u2063 to Military-Industrial Complex<\/h2>\n<p>Alabama Sen. \u2062Tommy Tuberville has come \u200dunder fire from\u2062 former secretaries \u200dof defense for his opposition to President Biden&#8217;s military nominees and the Pentagon&#8217;s abortion \u2062policy. However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-cop-state-spox-offers-herself-up-as-view-cohost\/\" title=\"Anti-Cop State Spox Offers Herself Up as \u2018View\u2019 Cohost\">conservative government watchdog group<\/a> has revealed that\u200d these former secretaries have significant connections to\u200d America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-hoft-from-tgp-presents-at-transform-washington-on-january-6-web-conference-video\/\" title=\"Joe Hoft from TGP Presents at \u201cTransform Washington on January 6\u201d Web conference (VIDEO)\">military-industrial complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter published in May, seven former Defense secretaries criticized Tuberville&#8217;s actions, claiming that his protest of the\u200b Pentagon&#8217;s use of \u200ctaxpayer money for abortions was &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; and \u200bcould politicize military officers. The signatories of the\u200d letter included James Mattis, Mark Esper,\u200b Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, Robert Gates, William Cohen,\u2062 and William Perry.<\/p>\n<p>American Accountability Foundation\u200c (AAF) recently uncovered that these same\u2064 former \u2063Defense secretaries now hold positions with major U.S. \u2062defense\u200d contractors \u200band related ventures. For\u200b example, Leon Panetta has been a\u200d senior counselor for Beacon Global Strategies LLC since 2014. Beacon Global is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-defense-secretaries-knocking-tubervilles-pentagon-abortion-policy-protest-have-major-ties-to-americas-military-industrial-complex\/\" title=\"Ex-Defense Secretaries Criticizing Tuberville's Pentagon Abortion Policy Tied to Military-Industrial Complex\">strategic\u200d advisory firm specializing<\/a> in defense and homeland security.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Hagel serves on \u2064the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees, a nonprofit\u200c organization that conducts research and analysis in\u2062 various areas, \u2064including national security and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Even Republican-appointed defense secretaries have become involved in the military-industrial complex. James Mattis now serves on the Board \u2063of Directors for General Dynamics \u2064Corporation, a major defense \u200dcontractor. Mark Esper, a former executive at Raytheon, has \u200bties to several defense-related entities, including Epirus, Cobham Advanced Electronics Systems,\u200b and Red Cell Partners.<\/p>\n<p>AAF&#8217;s investigation also revealed that Robert Gates, William Cohen, and William Perry, who served as defense secretaries under different administrations, also\u200b have connections to the military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, \u200bincluding RealClearPolitics,\u200c RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow \u200dhim on \u200dTwitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defense secretaries, linked to the military-industrial complex, are criticizing Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville for delaying President Biden&#8217;s military nominees due to the Pentagon&#8217;s abortion policy. A conservative watchdog group revealed this. In May, seven ex-Defense secretaries penned a letter condemning Tuberville&#8217;s attempt to demand separate votes on Biden&#8217;s military choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2015528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/2015527","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}