Posted on 07/12/2024 1:40:51 PM PDT by Signalman
Eighty-seven congressional Republicans are demanding answers from the U.S. Army after one of its bases got caught referring to pro-life organizations as “terrorist groups.”
“The American public expects the Department of Defense and its personnel to defend the homeland from actual terrorists, not Americans who seek protections for children in the womb,” a letter sent to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth on Friday and obtained by The Federalist reads.
Spearheaded by Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., the probe seeks to uncover information about an anti-terrorism briefing slide recently used by Fort Liberty (formerly known as Fort Bragg) that classified pro-life groups such as National Right to Life and Operation Rescue as threats to the American homeland.
First reported Wednesday by self-described analyst Sam Shoemate on X, the slideshow presentation listed features of these so-called “anti-abortion” groups, such as their opposition to Roe v. Wade and what types of activities they partake in. According to Shoemate, the pro-life slide “followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East.”
Fort Liberty’s public affairs office confirmed the slide’s authenticity to The Federalist on Thursday, claiming they were “not vetted by the appropriate approval authorities” and “will no longer be used” in future trainings. The office did not, however, respond to The Federalist’s follow-up inquiry on whether the “local garrison employee” responsible for creating the slides has been or will be punished or fired for their conduct.
“While Ft. Liberty’s statement asserts that the slides ‘do not reflect the views of the … U.S. Army or the Department of Defense’, the American people are rightfully concerned that training of this kind is being disseminated in the first place and possibly at other military installations,” Republicans’ letter to Wormuth reads. “The American people deserve to be assured that these slides truly do not reflect the Army’s views, that a full investigation will be conducted, and that any offending employees will be properly held accountable.”
Republicans demanded Wormuth provide more details on the aforementioned slides and individuals responsible for vetting such materials. They additionally requested the Army secretary explain what specific actions the branch is taking “to investigate the distribution of training materials depicting Pro-Life Americans as terrorists” and what “statutes or Army regulations were potentially violated and what action is the Army taking with regard to any offending employee.”
Demands that Wormuth commit to conducting an “installation-by-installation review” to determine whether such materials are being used at other bases and ensuring they will no longer be utilized by the Army are also included in the letter. Wormuth has until July 29 to respond to Republicans’ inquiry, according to the document.
The National Right to Life Committee, CatholicVote, Family Research Council, and other pro-life organizations are supporting Republicans’ letter, according to Budd’s office.
They want to use the Army to eliminate their political opposition. Just like Nazis
Run this Army through the wringer! (Retired Army Firld Grade Officer)
Note to Trump 47: Military officers serve at the pleasure of the President. You can fire every three and four star officer on your first day in office to get everyone elses attention and I guarantee you the military will shape up before sundown.
“Eighty-seven congressional Republicans are demanding answers...”
87 Republicans.
Where are the other 133 Republicans?
Correction:
“Eighty-seven congressional Republicans are demanding answers...”
87 Republicans.
Where are the other 182 Republicans?
This sure as hell isn’t the Army in which I served!
If you have influence, use it to keep decent young people out of Biden’s legions until that mess is cleaned up.
I’m sick of the changing names of bases.
I was born at Ft. Benning. I’ll always call it that even though I respect Hal Moore.
The XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty Inspector General is probably doing an Investigation. I know when I was the Investigations and Assistance NCOIC in the 82d this would have been straight the The Inspector’s General Office from Congress. That we are reading this and they are waiting for a response shows how far the Army has collasped. I would have had to have a response to my IG, the Div Commander and Congress before I went home, if I was ever to be off duty.
This is a damn shame.
I know the Army’s primary purpose is to kill people and break things but I’m pretty sure we were taught how to do that in order to protect the innocent people on OUR side. Targeting pro-life groups seems to be beyond their scope of operations.
I highly recommend this action. The military has been corrupted since the mid-2000’s. Our info-sec training targeted “white supremacist groups” even back then.
I no longer trust our military.
:NeverTrumpin':
Democrats ARE,EVIL.
So now there are “terrorists” whose goal is to save lives, rather than end them?
It has been at least twenty years since I heard about an abortion clinic bombed, or an abortion doctor killed.
I’ve long believed that most of those were false flag ops, and the way the FBI has been behaving since the Obama years (at least) strengthens that view.
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