ARK MIDNIGHT LIVE - THE FORTNIGHT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING [John B Wells Radio interview w/ Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney]

Jaw-dropping. I'd never listened to John B. Wells prior, nor had I fully grasped McInerney as a subject of all this.

Transcript of the entire 22 minute interview is below (btw, both Debut - desktop audio capture app - & Sonix - online transcription app - work perfectly):

Speaker1: [00:00:37] This is the Arc Midnight Fortnite Intelligence Briefing. I am John B. Wells, this is caravan to midnights sixth element of the Week. And on tonight's program, U.S. Air Force General Thomas McInerney, United States Army Colonel Phil Waldron, United States Army General Paul Vallely, United States Army Colonel Colonel Lawrence Celan and then Mary Fanning and Alan Jones. For our final half hour, we will run. Pretty much commercial free, except for the top of the hour and the bottom, because there's a lot of information to get out to you as quickly as possible. That's why we call it the Fortnite Intelligence Briefing because every two weeks the generals and the officers will join us. Glad you've joined us to. If not now, then when and if not us, then who? And so without further ado. The man who was a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general command pilot with more than 4100 flying hours, 407 combat missions, two hundred and forty three and Oh one is forward Air Controller 164 and Air Force's D's and E's during the Vietnam War. In addition, served overseas in NATO's Pacific Air Forces and as commander of the 11th Air Force in Alaska, currently a Fox News contributor and a member of the Iran Policy Committee. He is Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney. We welcome him back. Good evening, sir. Thanks for coming on tonight.

Speaker2: [00:02:09] Thanks very much for having me, John. Delighted to be with you.

Speaker1: [00:02:13] Well, we are clear, sir, to the bottom of the hour. So why don't we just get into whatever you want to get into? I'm thinking, maybe General Milley, maybe a little critical race theory, maybe have turned over Bagram Air Force Base or Air Base to Taliban and stuff like that. So it just take us wherever you want to go tonight. The floor is entirely yours.

Speaker2: [00:02:31] Okay, let's start off with with General Milley and who do I know have met? I do not know him very well, but I'm I'm sad to say that I have been very disappointed and let me give my logic because it's really not appropriate for general officers to be criticizing general officers. But in this particular case, I think he's put himself in a position to be criticized. The first red flag that came up on my radar job was remember when they tried to burn the St. John's Church down the Black Lives Matter in Washington, D.C., which is right across the White House and historic church that presidents, all presidents had had been going to the once the White House was moved down to Washington, D.C.. And I was very impressed. The General Milley was there. He was in his to use his battle dress uniform along with the secretary of defense. And it showed me strength that the American people led by the president, the United States, were not going to let this rioting this Marxist group take over the United States. They had already done $2 billion worth of damage and over 25 million 25 Americans had died with this Marxist group, which, in my opinion, were the Brownshirts of the Democratic Party. So delighted to see him out there. And then less than two days, he comes out and apologizes for being there now that sent up a red flag for me, a flare. Why would you apologize for supporting? He was saying it was a political stunt, and the fact was it was letting the U.S., the American people know that our government was not in the military was not going to tolerate this rioting.

Speaker2: [00:04:44] So that's the first issue. And then he follows up with everybody remembers with him his testimony on the Hill several months ago in which he talked about critical race theory T and said he wanted to understand white rage. No critical race theory is a Marxist doctrine that wants to put us back in the old segregationist days in which skin color was an important attribute of a person. The Martin Luther King said it so very well when he said, It's not your skin color, it's the merits of your mind and the merits of you as an individual, not what your skin color is. I always felt my 35 years in the military, plus four years as a cadet at West Point that I never understood anybody skin color John unless they wanted me to. Skin color had no part of my life or thinking. You can imagine as a fighter pilot in a single seat fighter and you've got four ships or 16. We didn't care what the person's skin color was. We only were concerned with his performance. The individual, that's the world I grew up in. And I, when General Milley came up with this discussion of white, he wanted to understand white rage, which was brought in, by the way. The Obama administration, and it's not a PWHPA when I said, Oh, Biden, I think everybody understands it.

Speaker2: [00:06:44] But General Austin. Who was the secretary of defense brought this in to our Defense Department. It's critical race theory and absolutely unacceptable, and they've been trying to put it into our schools and educate it. They've been putting it in at the military academies, the military, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard Academy. This is unacceptable. So automatically, General Mills now got two strikes and he's come up in my radar as not understanding. He should have flat told SecDef Austin, who was a general and his last job was a central command commander. The job that Gen. McKenzie has now. He should have told him, you were not brought up with that in our military and that is unacceptable in our Defense Department. But he did not. So he's now come up on my radar and many, many generals and retired admirals such that almost 200 have now signed retired generals and admirals. We call them Flags for America. I've signed letters concerning my next question Was this the performance? The performance in Afghanistan in closing down Bagram Air Base and those three issues, we've got over 200 flag officers that are strongly urging that both Secretary of Defense Austin and General Milley retire resign. Yes, that is unacceptable performance. Let's get into the details, John. On Afghanistan, President Trump wanted to get out, but what he didn't want to do was surrender, which General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin and President Biden did. They surrendered. Now, why do I say that? What is my logic for saying that? Well, first of all, when Biden came in the office or Joe Biden came into office in the 20th of January, they covertly started reducing the tactical air support to close air support to troops in contact.

Speaker2: [00:09:15] Now, the troops in contact were Afghan troops. Anytime Air AirPower would show up in troops and contact the Afghan forces or the U.S. forces would win. So they started covertly reducing that. None of us saw that. And then they started reducing the intelligence, the all source intelligence, the different things, the warnings, et cetera, that we were giving the Afghan forces. And then they quickly started reducing the logistics support, ammunition, supplies, et cetera, that the U.S. had been supporting them on. And finally, the one that I don't know if it was their government or ours, I don't think it was our government. Their government staff stopped paying the troops. And when the troops are getting signals like this and they wonder why they melted into the into the woodwork in eleven days, the Biden administration, under the leadership of SecDef Austin, who had been the commander of Central Command. And it's less last job as a four star. And Miley Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and key adviser or senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense and the president, United States. They wondered why they said in their testimony they didn't see in 11 days that the country would fall after we went out. My God, what were they doing?

Speaker1: [00:10:59] What were they thinking? Well, how could the country not fall right after they left? I mean, general, I don't want to take up your time. I'd rather hear you than me. But when you withdraw from someplace, you take your you take your, your personnel and your equipment with you. You don't abandon your equipment and then just flee the scene in this unorganized way. Are you, are you or you think that this may have been contrived to be the mess that it was? It's not possible. Is it that this could be really that poor of planning? It was just like, OK, let's just do it.

Speaker2: [00:11:29] I mean, what is this? Oh, John, it had to be. And that's what nobody brought up in the testimony that they had in the tape before the Senate Armed Services Committee and the 29th last Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee. This did not come out, and that's why these issues or of course, then the real flag that came up was General Milley, and several book publications that are coming out brought up his direct communications with his Chinese counterpart, who is their vice minister of defense and the minister of Defense is President Gee, the president of the company. That he, he thought or he said he had intelligence. But I've seen other information that doesn't claim that from the intelligence community that the Chinese were worried about the U.S. striking China. Now, please, please, John. That is not to say to Bob Woodward that you're going to that you save the nation because of your foresight and warning the Chinese that we were not going to strike. And he didn't tell President Trump that that is a person that is grandstanding and that is all those issues together. And we can we can peel apart some of them that have laid out that is unacceptable. And he said, well, he had to have communications with the media, communications with people, writing books on a president that just has left. And you stabbed him in the back with your denying that you should have been at St. John's Church and coming out with the critical race theory.

Speaker2: [00:13:44] Of course, that was after President Trump and left is not a sign that a person is loyal and loyal to the American people. He is. This had to be deliberate. And Biden, in their testimony of Austin, Millie and McKenzie, they all said they recommended 2500 force to covering force there. And that's why they needed Bagram air power was absolutely essential to keeping that country together, as well as giving it in real time when the Afghan forces needed it. And, of course, the intel that would warn him of attacks, et cetera, that was needed. That was not part of the forever war, John. And those three people, Austin Milley and McKenzie, had vast experience, and they just surrendered and gave away 20 years for veteran tours that had gone. The troops had gone over there and the heroic action they gave it away. Plus, now Afghan women cannot work, they can't go to school. They're part of the Taliban. We made the Taliban much stronger than they had ever been before, when we kicked them out 20 years ago and why we never. And I blame all four presidents for not attacking them in Pakistan because the Taliban could not have it could not have survived unless they were retrofitting during the winter season in Pakistan, where they were training and refitting, et cetera. That could never have happened. So there's blame to go around. But the final critique job was clearly what they did in these last six months that Biden was president.

Speaker2: [00:15:52] And the reason he did it was he thought he. Is going to get a quick kill in the 20th anniversary. He would speak in New York, speak in Washington and speak in Pennsylvania, and he would be the hero. They would not let him speak. No one would let him speak at any one of those sites. And there was a reason because they know they know that Biden, often Millie and McKenzie, are responsible for the deaths of those 13 marines, primarily one Navy corpsman and one Army NCO. They are responsible for that. For that attack that should never have happened in the final critical course was doing the Neo, the non-combatant evacuation order they call it we do of all the time doing that after he'd moved the military forces out and they had to do everything. Part of that one base in the middle of Afghanistan and of of all places to do that, it was the worst place to do when Bagram was by far the base twin base parallel runways. Bagram was a strategic base that could influence anything that China would do on Taiwan. We could influence it from Bagram. It's a backdoor into China bordering the anys border. And so, John, it's unconscionable the errors that I have just laid out that went on. And that should not have happened. And they lost it. They deliberately lost it for their actions that they took.

Speaker1: [00:17:46] You know, General Tom, I got to run this past you. I think Obama, let's just say I'm right on this. I don't want to slander anybody, but these are just my observations. They don't represent anybody else's views of my own at this time, at least not publicly. Obama runs the country from up the street. Ok, he sides with the Muslims. He wrote it that if push came to shove, he'd side with the Muslims. Ok. Bagram was a ball roll walk against China. So Milley assures his counterpart that he'll get a tip off call when the insane President Trump, right, decides to spontaneously just spaz out and launch a full-scale nuclear attack on on China or a limited nuclear strike. And I guess, to protect Taiwan, which I think there's not a snowball's chance of that happening. I think he gave in Bagram. I think Milley gave Milley, gave his handlers Bagram, the Chinese and gave the Taliban. Our gear and tech come in.

Speaker2: [00:18:43] And that's what call it the Biden administration. You are smart.

Speaker2: [00:18:50] Well, they've crossed it. They have crossed it. And and the fact that they did that. Look, Obama is the first president not to go back to his hometown. Eisenhower went to Pennsylvania because that's what he adopted. But he's the first President Obama to not leave. Washington, D.C. George Washington left the district. He went down to Mount Vernon, Virginia. But and Biden to combined. Obama, to my knowledge, is the first president to put a skiff, self-contained intelligence facility in his residence in the basement. Now, why would he do that?

Speaker2: [00:19:42] It is not. You said it's spot on. And why would Susan Rice, who is a national security adviser, the person on Benghazi went on four or five networks, saying it was due to a movie and covering up their mistakes. Why would she be in the National Security Council now and all the people blinking? All those people were part of the Obama administration. It's obvious that Joe Biden cannot conduct a press conference and go into any tough questions from the press, like President Trump would do all the time going to the air to the helicopter. He'd stop and talk to off the cuff and separate program that we have got to talk about some night. How President Trump was betrayed by the swamp.

Speaker1: [00:20:47] Indeed, sir. It's a real pleasure speaking with you. It really is. I wish the subject matter was more about something a little more lighthearted. But then again, you didn't join the military and put it in all that time to be lighthearted. I'm thinking this this thing here. Obama wanted to shame the country. I believe that he wanted to shame the country and look at the look at the way they've stacked the deck. General, like Kamala Harris is going to take over and cackle their way all the all the way through every address, every every presentation of any kind. Ok, so forget about her move, Pelosi in there. I mean, no slander intended here, but I think her federal court. I think it was a federal court released her alcohol rehabilitation information recently, so it's clearly a that situation with her. So she's not stable. So if you can't use her, then we're running out of people here. I look forward to speaking with you again in a fortnight.

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A summary doesn't do it justice. He indicts Milley, Austin & '0biden'. It's worth playing the first 10 minutes while doing something else just to get a flavor for what did NOT come out before the Senate/House Armed Services Committee testimony.

Sidebar: I'd not heard previously about this letter from 200 retired general officers mentioned by McInerney (must have missed it).

https://mustreadalaska.com/retired-generals-admirals-call-for-resignation-of-defense-secretary-and-joint-chiefs-chairman-over-kabul-debacle/

John Wells, along with Clyde Lewis of “Ground Zero,” are the natural successors to the great Art Bell.

Fantastic radio.

I had hoped John Wells awas going to be selected to take Art Bell’s place instead of George Noory. The George Noory Lobby got their way. It’s been many years since I listened to the show Coast to Coast, primarily because not many terristrial radio stations carry it anymore. With Noory, I’ve kind of lost interest. I don’t wish to hear him talk about himself, no more than what I’ve already heard anyway.

Well McInerney was the nutcase saying that the CIA and Military Special Ops forces got into a firefight in Frankfurt Germany over the secret CIA computer server farm. So, yeah, let’s take his word about things.

Don’t know if you listen to Clyde Lewis’s “Ground Zero,” but he has quite a bit of Art Bell spirit in his show, as well. Intelligent and entertaining.

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