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Navy acknowledges request regarding USS John S. McCain made for Trump visit
CNN ^ | Fri May 31, 2019 | Barbara Starr and Caroline Kelly

Posted on 06/01/2019 6:37:23 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The US Navy acknowledged Friday that a request had been made regarding the USS John S. McCain in relation to President Donald Trump's visit to Japan, but said the ship ended up remaining in its normal configuration.

The statement continues a saga stemming from emails exchanged between the White House and lower-level US Navy officials about keeping a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain's father and grandfather out of sight ahead of the President's trip.

"A request was made to the U.S. Navy to minimize the visibility of USS John S. McCain, however, all ships remained in their normal configuration during the President's visit," Rear Adm. Charlie Brown, chief of Navy information, said in a statement. "There were also no intentional efforts to explicitly exclude Sailors assigned to USS John S. McCain."

Brown added that the Navy is "fully cooperating with the review of this matter tasked by" acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.

Two Navy officials told CNN on Wednesday that the White House Military Office had asked lower-level US Navy officials about keeping the ship out of view -- an impractical request as the ship was under repair, one of the officials said.

"Once leadership heard about it, they said knock it off," a senior Navy official told CNN.

*** The ship ultimately was not moved nor was the name obscured, said Cmdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the 7th Fleet. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barbarastarr; carolinekelly; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fakenews; japan; mccain; mediawingofthednc; navy; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump
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To: yesthatjallen

A ship with a permanent list to port.


21 posted on 06/01/2019 7:03:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Most likely fake news but at any rate, CIC/POTUS can configure America’s ships any way CIC/POTUS wants/commands.


22 posted on 06/01/2019 7:08:44 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yesthatjallen
The US Navy acknowledged Friday that a request had been made regarding the USS John S. McCain in relation to President Donald Trump's visit to Japan, but said the ship ended up remaining in its normal configuration.

So what!
23 posted on 06/01/2019 7:10:40 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m sorry - I need an interpreter for this...”leadership” is who and “knock it off” was said by who to who? Must be too early in the morning for me...

“”Two Navy officials told CNN on Wednesday that the White House Military Office had asked lower-level US Navy officials about keeping the ship out of view — an impractical request as the ship was under repair, one of the officials said.
“Once leadership heard about it, they said knock it off,” a senior Navy official told CNN.””


24 posted on 06/01/2019 7:11:13 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: yesthatjallen

Whoever made the request might want to resign,
and if not be asked to leave


25 posted on 06/01/2019 7:13:44 AM PDT by Rocko Jack
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To: chief lee runamok
The whole affair stinks of pettiness.

It's really embarrassing.

It either suggests that the President himself ordered it through the White House Military Office which is disgraceful or that someone underneath the President ordered it without the President's approval, --in which case Trump employs staffers who are either incompetent or deliberately trying to make him look bad.

26 posted on 06/01/2019 7:14:43 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: yesthatjallen

Why would any sane conservative believe any fake news from CNN, about our President.


27 posted on 06/01/2019 7:15:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Frau Mueller, what do the Clintons, Obama and their Spygate CIA/FBI/DOJ thugs have on you???????)
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To: mewzilla
Given McCain’s involvement in Spygate, his family and their allies are NUTS to carp about this...

This isn't about the USS John S. McCain. It is about the Sailors who serve aboard her.

28 posted on 06/01/2019 7:16:45 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: yesthatjallen

Whoever made the request should be fired and permanently removed from the WH. It just might be that a part of the problem we have keeping President Trump focused on the Deplorable Agenda, ending wars, supporting true conservatives, is that someone(s) with very bad judgement are speaking for the President.


29 posted on 06/01/2019 7:21:56 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: Drew68

If a story as dumb as this one seems important to the rapidly sinking CNN, doesn’t it speak to their extraordinary pettiness and highlight the obvious fact the Libs ae totally out of ideas?


30 posted on 06/01/2019 7:23:35 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: yesthatjallen

Details I heard yesterday suggest that this is much ado about nothing.

If the ship is undergoing repair, as the article stated, wouldn’t that be a valid reason to keep the ship out of sight? Scaffolding and heavy equipment do not make for a good military photo op. It could give adversaries the idea that our military assets are falling apart. That is not the best image to project about our military.


31 posted on 06/01/2019 7:24:32 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: yesthatjallen
Teapot, meet tempest.

Do the media whores really think anyone gives a tin shyte?

32 posted on 06/01/2019 7:26:28 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: yesthatjallen

Sounds to me like what a trump enemy would request. Then they would leak it to the news. There are still Auntie Trump bureaucrats in the White House. And in the military


33 posted on 06/01/2019 7:27:52 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Drew68

I say it’s the broad at the WSJ. FAKE NEWS. When the whole truth finally comes out we will be in the dogdays of August, and the correction will be on page 27, below the fold, in 6 point type.


34 posted on 06/01/2019 7:30:51 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: yesthatjallen

Its always “ someone” or “ many”. Never a definitive “who, when, what, where, why”

That used to be the journalistic standard. Now its all about “ clicks” on websites, and fake headlines..


35 posted on 06/01/2019 7:30:51 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: yesthatjallen
"A society [AMERICA] that puts freedom ahead of equality will have a great deal of both."

"A society [OBAMA'S TYRANNY] that puts equality ahead of freedom will have neither."

--With thanks to Milton Friedman.

36 posted on 06/01/2019 7:34:45 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Something like this is raised to the level of a “matter”?


37 posted on 06/01/2019 7:37:55 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

Post #36 was meant for another thread, although it is relevant here to the extent McCain was a Benedict Arnold and enemy of America’s values of Life, Liberty, and Free Pursuits.


38 posted on 06/01/2019 7:40:40 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Mr. K

First off, it’s a “ship”, not a boat...

Secondly:

Per Wikipedia:

On 11 July 2018, at a rededication ceremony, Senator John McCain was added as a namesake, along with his father and grandfather.


39 posted on 06/01/2019 7:42:44 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: yesthatjallen

Someone was trying to set the CINC up...this story is just to give the fake news folks some plausible credence...


40 posted on 06/01/2019 7:43:42 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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