{"id":755958,"date":"2021-09-15T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755958"},"modified":"2021-09-15T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:50:27","slug":"pentagon-spokesman-says-nothing-in-milley-report-causes-any-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-spokesman-says-nothing-in-milley-report-causes-any-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Spokesman Says \u2018Nothing\u2019 In Milley Report Causes \u2018Any Concern\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\">20<\/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%2Fpentagon-spokesman-says-nothing-in-milley-report-causes-any-concern%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=755958&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\/MSNBC-screenshot-2-e1631736941963.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Wednesday that there was \u201cnothing\u201d in recent reports about Gen. Mark Milley that caused \u201cany concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t speak to\u201d the revelations about Milley in the new book \u201cPeril\u201d that was written by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you saw a statement by the chairman\u2019s office specifically addressing this issue,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I can tell you is, that it is not uncommon at all for the department to continue to review security protocols, particularly when it comes to our strategic deterrence capabilities. That we constantly take a look at the protocols and procedures to make sure that they are still relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said that the protocols have been around for 20 years. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/cnn-guest-miles-taylor-claims-senior-official-hoped-trump-would-chain-himself-resolute-desk-american\/\">(RELATED: CNN Guest Claims Senior Official Hoped Trump Would Chain Himself To The Resolute Desk To Show \u2018Serious Mental Decline\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.7236842105263\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PentagonPresSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PentagonPresSec<\/a> John Kirby answers questions on Gen. Milley and nuclear launch protocols: \u201cI can\u2019t speak to the validity, but I see nothing in what I\u2019ve read that would cause any concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full video here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zXcI39ajLQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/zXcI39ajLQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OVBPUQcY6a\">pic.twitter.com\/OVBPUQcY6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1438223501475864577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also completely appropriate, and again I\u2019m not speaking to the validity of things that are in the book, but it is completely appropriate for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as the senior military advisor to both the secretary and the president, to want to see those protocols reviewed on whatever frequent basis that he wants to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby repeated that he can\u2019t confirm that the reports are accurate or inaccurate, but did not feel they were concerning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not see anything, in what I\u2019ve read, that would cause any concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodward and Costa allege in their book that Milley held a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/mark-milley-trump-nuclear-weapons-pelosi-woodward\/\">secret meeting<\/a> at the Pentagon after the Capitol riot instructing high ranking military officials to go through him before taking orders from former President Donald Trump, who Milley was \u201ccertain\u201d had gone into \u201cserious mental decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MIT nuclear strategy expert Vipin Narang told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/08\/there-is-no-legal-way-stop-trump-ordering-nuclear-strike-if-he-wants-expert-says\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> that anyone who ignored an order from the president and disrupted the nuclear chain of command \u201cwould be doing so illegally and risk the charge of mutiny.\u201d He said that the president has \u201csole authority\u201d to order a nuclear launch.<\/p>\n<p>Milley also allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/mark-milley-warn-china-trump-phone-call-military-strike\/\">called<\/a> his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People\u2019s Liberation Army, and told him that he would give advance warning in the case of U.S. military action against China.<\/p>\n<p>Milley <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/mark-milley-statement-secret-call-china-trump\/\">denied<\/a> any wrongdoing. His spokesman, Col. Dave Butler, said that \u201cthe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs regularly communicates with Chiefs of Defense across the world, including with China and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Wednesday that there was \u201cnothing\u201d in recent reports about Gen. Mark Milley that caused \u201cany concern.\u201dKirby said that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t speak to\u201d the revelations &#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-755958","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\/755958","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=755958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755958\/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=755958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}