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Retired admiral who criticized Trump leaves Pentagon board
Fox News ^ | 09/16/18 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 09/16/2018 12:29:50 PM PDT by JonnyFive

A retired Navy admiral who oversaw the raid that killed Usama bin Laden has resigned from a Defense Department advisory board, after criticizing President Trump's decision to revoke a former CIA director's security clearance.

William McRaven, former head of U.S. Special Operations Command, left the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) on Aug. 20, Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said.

That was four days after he wrote in the Washington Post that Trump's actions revoking former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance "embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

McRaven's op-ed carried the headline, "Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President."

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: mcraven; pentagon; trump; trumpdod; williammcraven; yourefired
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To: JonnyFive

Chuckle...
When someone criticized OBunghole, they got FIRED.

When someone criticizes the American President... they have a hissy fit and quit.

Quite the difference, dontchathink?


21 posted on 09/16/2018 1:18:19 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: JonnyFive

I have often wondered if this was the Officer who made the phone call, overruled the OIC on the ground, and forced Seal Team 6 into the ambush which wiped them out...


22 posted on 09/16/2018 1:25:31 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: JonnyFive

McCraven must have finally got his tongue unstuck from Obama’s ear.


23 posted on 09/16/2018 1:29:07 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: JonnyFive

“McRaven’s op-ed carried the headline, “Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President.”

I’d revoke his rank and pension too.


24 posted on 09/16/2018 1:30:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BlessedBeGod

That this is how he sees this event shows him as simply another inside-the-Beltway swamp dweller, despite his past service.

Thanks for your service, admiral, enjoy your retirement pay, forget that security clearance. You’ve demonstrated you don’t fully understand the concept of elected citizen leadership, and we don’t want you in government, or close to it. We wish to remain a people with a government, and not become a government with a people, which seems where you would have us go.


25 posted on 09/16/2018 1:31:47 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Leep

“Defense Innovation Board ...”

What kind of no-show sinecure is that?


26 posted on 09/16/2018 1:32:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: JonnyFive

One less Obamatard hanging around the Pentagon. That’s a good thing.


27 posted on 09/16/2018 1:38:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Jacquerie
Yep.

Seeded his minions throughout the fed gov.

The foot soldiers of the deep state.

28 posted on 09/16/2018 1:39:29 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: JonnyFive

This is an old story. One wonders why it keeps being re-posted and re-posted and re-posted. Must be some anti-something bullshit involved.


29 posted on 09/16/2018 1:39:49 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: JonnyFive

Hey!

Willie Mac!

Go to the ocean.

Find a beach.

Squat down.

Pack sand up your ass.


30 posted on 09/16/2018 1:43:37 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: JonnyFive

One of the problems with allowing these guys to keep their clearances after they are gone, they just make the Military Industrial Complex that much more left wing. And they remain involved in bending policy and narrative.

On an ideological level, if it is the principles of individual responsibility and individual moral boundaries and faith which are fundamental to the principles of Liberty found in our US Constitution, (which have kept us free), how can any person who espouses the elimination of the very morality necessary for the preservation of our Liberty be called a patriot?

These are precisely the ones who truly are a threat to our way of life.

The potential is for these to be the very ones to create an American “SS”.


31 posted on 09/16/2018 1:44:57 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: JonnyFive

He’s a perfumed prince tool. Dick Marcinko kicked him out of Seal Team 6. He talks all about how he was the guy who got Osama bin Laden, as he sat back at watching it on TV.


32 posted on 09/16/2018 1:47:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

See ya later, Skippy.


33 posted on 09/16/2018 1:50:18 PM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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To: Jacquerie

and he is a obola flag officer...he was against concealed carry on campus, againt not giving illegals instate tuitition, among other things..


34 posted on 09/16/2018 1:58:01 PM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: JonnyFive
William H. McRaven

I would not be surprised if he runs for some office. May he get his ass kicked.

35 posted on 09/16/2018 1:58:35 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: richardtavor

Well, the Admiral’s judgment is certainly questionable...


36 posted on 09/16/2018 2:04:18 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: JonnyFive

“Political donations by the panel’s members lean overwhelmingly liberal, with some $2.4 million contributed to Democrats and political action committees that support them, versus about $236,000 for Republican candidates, DefenseNews reported.”


37 posted on 09/16/2018 2:05:05 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: JonnyFive

Swamp dweller and Obama General/Admiral, good riddance.


38 posted on 09/16/2018 2:08:00 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: JonnyFive

The Wesley Clark of Navy SEALs.


39 posted on 09/16/2018 2:08:02 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
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To: JonnyFive

It appears quite a few of Flag Officers got there by politics.


40 posted on 09/16/2018 2:17:50 PM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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