{"id":755699,"date":"2021-09-15T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755699"},"modified":"2021-09-15T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:21:26","slug":"ex-pentagon-head-on-milley-a-disgraceful-and-unprecedented-act-of-insubordination-must-resign-immediately-or-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-pentagon-head-on-milley-a-disgraceful-and-unprecedented-act-of-insubordination-must-resign-immediately-or-be-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Pentagon Head On Milley: \u2018A Disgraceful And Unprecedented Act Of Insubordination,\u2019 \u2018Must Resign Immediately Or Be Fired\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fex-pentagon-head-on-milley-a-disgraceful-and-unprecedented-act-of-insubordination-must-resign-immediately-or-be-fired%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=755699&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1229604345-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller ripped Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley on Wednesday over a report that Milley told his Chinese counterpart that he would warn the Chinese military if the U.S. \u2014 and then-president Donald Trump \u2014 was about to launch a strike.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported Tuesday, based on revelations in a forthcoming book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, that Milley was allegedly so worried that Trump would strike China that he called and told&nbsp;Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People\u2019s Liberation Army that the U.S. would not launch a strike and, that if the U.S. did, it would not be a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you,\u201d Milley reportedly said.&nbsp;\u201cGeneral Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we\u2019re going to attack, I\u2019m going to call you ahead of time. It\u2019s not going to be a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller told Fox News that he&nbsp;\u201cdid not and would not ever authorize\u201d Milley to have \u201csecret\u201d calls with General Li, saying that the allegations against Milley were a \u201cdisgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination,\u201d and calling on him to resign \u201cimmediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest-ranking military officer whose sole role is providing military-specific advice to the president, and by law is prohibited from exercising executive authority to command forces,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThe chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense, not through the Chairman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019s report said that their sources indicated that the calls \u201cwere not secret\u201d and that about 15 people were on the two calls, which were allegedly conducted with the knowledge of&nbsp;then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper and then-acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, which Miller denied.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s Josh Rogin disputed Griffin\u2019s reporting, saying that his sources said that Milley did not properly coordinate the calls, adding that a senior agency official told him, \u201cWhen Milley did these calls, it was with Joint Staff, and nobody from [Office of the Secretary of Defense] participated in it. If someone from State Department was on the call, the Joint Staff should say who it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.355300859599\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m told this (what Jennifer tweeted) is not true. Milley did not properly coordinate: SAO: \u201cWhen Milley did these calls, it was with Joint Staff, and nobody from OSD participated in it. If someone from State Department was on the call, the Joint Staff should say who it is.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uub67POGEn\">https:\/\/t.co\/Uub67POGEn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshrogin\/status\/1438136127907586051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the reporting in Woodward\u2019s book is accurate, it represents a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the Nation\u2019s top military officer,\u201d Miller said, \u201chistrionic outbursts and unsanctioned, anti-Constitutional involvement in foreign policy prove true, he must resign immediately or be fired by the Secretary of Defense to guarantee the sanctity of the officer corps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPursuit of partisan politics and individual self-interests are a violation of an officer\u2019s sacred duty and have no place in the United States military,\u201d Miller concluded, \u201ca lesser ranking officer accused of such behavior would immediately be relieved of duty pending a thorough and independent investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller said that the notion that Trump was intent on starting a war with China was \u201cunfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former chief of staff for the Department of Defense Kash Patel responded to the explosive report on Milley by saying \u201cthat calling a foreign counterpart and discussing operational capabilities against that enemy is literally treasonous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller ripped Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley on Wednesday over a report that Milley told his Chinese counterpart that he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755699","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}