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But then we'd have to get into other messy things like the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley bypassing the president's constitutional executi
by cronix 5y ago
But then we'd have to get into other messy things like the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley bypassing the president's constitutional executive authorities ability to launch a nuclear attack. Of course it's framed as him saving humanity, but at it's core you had a treasonous act.
> Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took steps to prevent then-President Donald Trump from misusing the country's nuclear arsenal during the last month of his presidency, according to a new book by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa obtained by NBC News.
> The book, set to be released Sept. 21, also recounted a phone conversation Milley had with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol, which Pelosi blamed on an "unhinged" Trump. Pelosi said in January that she spoke to Milley about "preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike."
> "I can guarantee you, you can take it to the bank, that there'll be, that the nuclear triggers are secure and we're not going to do — we're not going to allow anything crazy, illegal, immoral or unethical to happen," Milley told her, according to a transcript of the call obtained by the authors.
> "The president alone can order the use of nuclear weapons. But he doesn't make the decision alone. One person can order it, several people have to launch it," he said later in the conversation.
> After the call, Milley summoned senior officers from the National Military Command Center to go over the procedures for launching nuclear weapons, the book said. He told the officers that if they got a call, "you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure," he said — making sure he was in the loop on any planned military actions, the book said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/milley-acted-prevent-trump-misusing-nuclear-weapons-war-china-book-n1279187 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/milley-acted-prevent-t...
There is no constitution. Take the politics out of it. This is treason.
- will4274 5y agoThe lines are a bit blurrier here than you might think. Soldiers are required to disobey illegal orders. Congress declares war. But the President has the right to respond militarily in an emergency - war does not wait on committees. If Trump had said that e.g. NK had attacked, and ordered that NK be nuked, but NK had not actually attacked (i.e. there was not actually an emergency), that would have been an illegal order, which soldiers would have been legally bound to disobey. It would be treason for Milley to countermand a legal order, but asking for key servicemen to review the details of an admittedly complicated bit of military law and to prepare themselves for exactly what decision they might need to make in realtime - nothing illegal about that.