Posted on 09/20/2021 12:27:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
A former assistant secretary of the Army under President Trump, E. Casey Wardynski, is accusing Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley of overstepping his authority and undermining President Donald Trump.
Wardynski also alleged the Chief of Staff of the Army, James McConville, did the same thing.
We’ve been reporting how Milley allegedly contacted the Chinese and told them that he would give them a heads up if we had any plans to attack them. He also intervened in the nuclear command authority of Trump by telling officers that they should not listen to anything unless it came through him, a breach of his authority because he had no operational command authority. He did that after being pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in what amounted to her trying to overthrow the constitutional authority of the elected president of the United States.
But Wardynski said that this was just one instance of a “pattern of behavior.”
From Fox News:
“These kind of behaviors and this willingness for military leaders to exceed their authorities and ignore authorities of the civilian officials appointed over them … positions under the Constitution and laws of the country was not something that came to them on Jan. 8,” Wardynski said. “It was something that they had done for a while.”
According to Wardynski, there were “stunning” instances in which he saw, firsthand, high-ranking military officials exceed their authority.
“It was in and around the riots in D.C.,” Wardynski said. “Gen. Milley, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – first thing to know, is he is a staff officer, he is an adviser, he’s not a commander – he ordered elements of the 82nd Airborne and the 10th Mountain Division to fly overnight to D.C. to Fort Belvoir and Andrews without consulting the Army chain of command and reaching around the chain of command to do that. I know that for a fact.”
Wardynski said McConville told him that he “would not be obeying any illegal orders from the president” amid several violent riots across the nation in the summer of 2020, particularly in D.C.
“That’s not something in 30 years of service in that uniform I thought I’d ever hear,” Wardynski said. “My interpretation of that was he was talking about any use of the Insurrection Act by the president.”
The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows a president to deploy U.S. militarized forces and National Guard troops should there be extreme civil disobedience or an insurrection.
“There was a lot of talk about governors and mayors not enforcing the law,” he added, providing context to the nature of ongoing events at that time. “A lot of Secret Service agents were hurt at the White House, a lot of national guardsmen were hurt at the White House, at one point it was reported that they evacuated the president to the emergency operations center, and of course Milley ordered these two units flown to D.C.”
Wardynski said that McConville repeated that he would “not obey illegal orders from the president” in October 2020, which prompted Wardynski to call his lawyer, the number-three attorney for the Army at the time, to advise him as to what was going on and saying he was concerned they would refuse an order of the president in regard to the Insurrection Act.
“My impression is, for some time, these people had no intention of supporting the president,” Wardynski noted. “Milley, in staff meetings, was routinely a bully. He would sit at the head of the table with the secretary, the secretary would say we’re going to do the following, and Milley would look at the gathered staff and tell them, ‘Let me tell you what the secretary just said’ and it was pretty much something different.”
Wardynski also noted that Milley, who he was around multiple times for meetings, went into his portfolio on multiple occasions without prior approval.
“He reached into my portfolio at least three times without my authority and then came to me for sort of forgiveness afterwards, which he did not get,” Wardynski said of Milley, whom he described as a “manipulator.”
Wardynski said Milley’s “business with the nuclear weapons and the nuclear command and control is part of a pattern of behavior.” “I believe it reached, at least, across the top of the Army in military leadership,” Wardynski added.
Neither Milley nor McConville responded to Fox’s requests for comment.
Milley has already said he thought his contacts with the Chinese were normal, with his spokesperson saying he had regular contact with them. So Wardynski raises even more questions about how long all this has been going on and where else Milley may have been exceeding his authority. Not to mention how many other people were acting this way.
Meanwhile at JAG HQ.....😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴
OUR MILITARY LEADERS ARE VERY CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT !!!
Firing squad or hanging for treason when?
Not that anyone in the DOD IG, FBI, CIA or DOJ cares, but there’s a lot of talk about how Milley’s phone call is routine.
Ok....Prove it.
Provide the documentation and records, paper and digital, of all the other phone calls, emails, DMs, or any other transcripts and devices used. Has to be a precedent.
As they always say, what are you hiding if you’ve done nothing wrong?
Linda Graham was a JAG....crickets from him her.
DeSantis was a JAG as well.
The DemonRATs in the White house are too stupid to realize that these two rogues will betray them too at the first opportunity. But, being treacherous backstabbing scum, DemonRATs can only surround themselves with more backstabbing treacherous scum.
Any place run by libs eventually gets outed as a terrible place to work.
COol..but hes a little busy......Linda is not.
Trump did not realize the depth of the hatred the swamp had for him. He should have fired every Obama appointee in the Executive branch on his first day in office and Milley when his insubordination after the walk became public. I hope Trump 47 has learned he has to fight fire with fire.
Linda 💖 Millie vanillie.
Ike warned us about the military industrial complex decades ago. The Founding Fathers were against having a standing army and we can see why.
How convenient , no one in his cabinet or the DC GOP thought Trump might need a heads up on this traitor? His AG, his FBI chief, his CIA director, his NSC, GOP serving on military and intelligence committees, the rest of the JCS, the DS weasels who pushed this guy on Trump, they all kept this from Trump. Where was Meadows? Trump finds out when we do, two years after the fact.
Forget all this back channel noise. Get him under oath and methodically question him. Each GOP committee member should yield their time to a real prosecutor who can mine the information from Milley. No political speeches - just non-stop verbal dissection.
Didn’t the Left go after Flynn for something similar? Opening “backchannels”? Oh, wait, the Left now says that’s normal behavior.
Yes, Flynn was persecuted and hounded into poverty, Milley is regaled as a ‘hero’ of the fatherland.
Would’ve been nice if they said this then
It’s amazing how fast the Left changes
“Wardynski also noted that Milley, who he was around multiple times for meetings, went into his portfolio on multiple occasions without prior approval.“
I wonder. Does this mean he was literally going through his folder of papers? Anyone able to translate swamp to English?
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