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3-star Navy admiral fired as deputy chief of nuclear command (military purge continues)
fox news ^ | 10/9/2013 | Robert Burns, AP

Posted on 11/08/2013 8:38:12 PM PST by Signalman

The deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was notified Wednesday that he has been relieved of duty amid a military investigation of allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino, the Navy said.

The move is exceedingly rare and perhaps unprecedented in the history of U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for all U.S. nuclear warfighting forces, including nuclear-armed submarines, bombers and land-based missiles.

The Navy's top spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said Giardina, who had held the job since December 2011, is being reassigned to the Navy staff pending the outcome of the probe by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which originated as a local law enforcement investigating in Iowa in June.

As a consequence of being removed from his post at Strategic Command, Giardina falls in rank to two-star admiral. He had been suspended by Gen. Robert Kehler, the top commander at Strategic Command, on Sept. 3, although that move was not disclosed publicly until Sept. 28.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: military; militarypurge; purge
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To: Secret Agent Man

I think we should start giving our congress critters a hard time over the fact that they are letting this happen and doing nothing about it.

The house can refuse to fund or can cut funding drastically so DHS is restricted to the purpose intended.

Otherwise, we are just setting ourselves up for disaster.

Or as an old friend of mine, now dead, used to say: “I won’t carry the rope to my own hanging.”

That is exactly what we are doing.

Congress is really dumb. Why does a Marxist need a congress?

The answer of course is that he does not.

Then what happens to congress?

Just like those generals and admirals.


21 posted on 11/08/2013 9:05:39 PM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: Secret Agent Man

Didn’t Hitler and Stalin purge their militaries?


22 posted on 11/08/2013 9:14:29 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Signalman

Where is a Von Stauffenberg?

At least the Germans tried.


23 posted on 11/08/2013 9:17:51 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

yup. and hitler totally got rid of the brownshirts after he sealed his power in and he was done with em.


24 posted on 11/08/2013 9:18:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

America’s Historical Purge is Happening Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsS-889ycHk

Obama’s Military Purge
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58845#.Um81CqN4EfQ.twitter

Uh oh. Obama’s Military Purge a Frightening Reality
http://www.newsmanity.com/news/uh-oh-obama-s-military-purge-a-frightening-reality


25 posted on 11/08/2013 9:20:58 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Paging Marshal Tukhachevsky.


26 posted on 11/08/2013 9:32:56 PM PST by Argus
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To: Secret Agent Man
One is Brownshirts, the other is the SS.

Obama's Brown-shirts Are Coming
27 posted on 11/08/2013 10:18:04 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: old curmudgeon

I think we should start giving our congress critters a hard time over the fact that they are letting this happen and doing nothing about it.
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I think a select committee could subpoena those senior officers and determine why they have been systematically removed by Obama and his ‘non-defense’ Chiefs of Staff, who have ushered in LGBTs to the military and denied priests holding mass, etc., etc.


28 posted on 11/09/2013 2:25:14 AM PST by octex
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To: rbg81

I like your thinking.


29 posted on 11/09/2013 3:21:11 AM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: Signalman

SET UP. The purge of patriots from the military leadership continues. We are witnessing true evil.


30 posted on 11/09/2013 4:17:56 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: SC_Pete
SET UP.

If all the other generals and admirals were removed on vague 'loss of confidence' reasons then why the need to blackmail this particular one?

31 posted on 11/09/2013 4:22:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

It is more plausible than believing someone in charge of nuclear is that stupid.


32 posted on 11/09/2013 4:28:12 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: SC_Pete

This actually happened at least as long ago as May of this year, and Iowa Criminal Investigation spent a long time on it, eventually declining to bring charges. Odd indeed.


33 posted on 11/09/2013 4:36:25 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: SC_Pete
It is more plausible than believing someone in charge of nuclear is that stupid.

Then why not set up the other ones?

34 posted on 11/09/2013 4:45:15 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: rbg81

sad isn’t it? it’s getting deeper-everyday there seems to be new one getting the shaft.

Gutting the military yet amping up “domestic”;HS,police dept grants,police violence towards citizens, etc.... yep, that’s what dictators do. :*(


35 posted on 11/09/2013 4:57:16 AM PST by lesliecortner (OMG! laz THAT'S SOOO FUNNY!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would love to BHO draft of this article which I am sure was

discarded a long time ago along with a lot of other things if

they ever even existed.

imho it wasn’t written by him.


36 posted on 11/09/2013 4:57:16 AM PST by lesliecortner (OMG! laz THAT'S SOOO FUNNY!!)
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To: DoodleDawg

We will never know. One thing’s for sure, Obama is replacing every one with political operatives.


37 posted on 11/09/2013 4:59:09 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: MagUSNRET

And it continues...


38 posted on 11/09/2013 5:23:25 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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39 posted on 11/09/2013 7:12:33 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Had his Thesaurus opened up next to his typewriter when he wrote that one didn’t he.


40 posted on 11/09/2013 7:23:59 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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