Posted on 02/27/2016 7:16:59 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Former CIA Chief Says Military Could Defy Donald Trump’s Orders
By Damian Paletta
Feb 27, 2016 4:53 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who recently led the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, said the U.S. military would likely refuse to follow certain orders from Donald Trump if he is elected to the White House in November and follows through on campaign promises.
"I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language that Candidate Trump expressed during the campaign," Gen. Hayden said during an interview will Bill Maher on Friday.
Mr. Trump, the frontrunner in the GOP primary, has vowed to use torture techniques against suspected terrorists if he wins the White House, going beyond waterboarding and doing things he described as a "hell of a lot worse."
He has also suggested he would order U.S. forces to kill the family members of terrorists, a charge that some have alleged would be in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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You don't get that green government check if you don't serve the Usurper. Protect and defend the Constitution? These traitors should all hang from trees.
“The military, the CIA, and any part of the government, and anyone we hire or deal with, are now restricted from using any techniques not in the U.S. Army interrogation manual.”
Then the commander in Chief, head of the executive branch can put it in the manual. No law needed. Look at what Obama did with homos, and with women in combat units. Pen and a phone bit@hes.
Yes, and as someone else (maybe you?) said, Congress can change what is or isn’t legal. And if Obama’s invaders start chaos here a POTUS can use martial law also, if the need is there. With a POTUS who would back up the CIA rather than stab the whole system in the back, things could be a lot different than they are now. But I think a lot would depend on whether Trump would be willing to clean the CIA and military house, as others have also mentioned. There is one whole side of the CIA that engages in treason against the USA. Will Trump get rid of them? Same thing with NSA. Will Trump excise the stuff that wages war against the American people and only keep the stuff that is necessary to protect us?
It’s an important question. I remember thinking under GW the Patriot Act was necessary - mostly because I thought that GW would not use these powers against the US public. And as far as I know, he didn’t. But having the PERMISSION to use them against even law-abiding US citizens was a bad, bad, bad thing to have in place for a lawless foreign enemy combatant like Obama. So now what would Trump do? Would he seek to gather even more power for the POTUS, thinking he would use it benevolently? Or would he try to get things back to a lawful balance?
Oh brother!
Like the military rolled over for Obama for 7 years, but they are going to dig in against Trump?
And this guy Hayden was in charge of the CIA and NSA.
I see he is going to be on Bill Maher’s show soon.
What a loser.
If Trump is elected he should direct his Justice Dept to investigate Haydens illegal domestic spying at the NSA and his bald faced lie to congress.
I think Hayden gave Plame the ‘fake’ spy cover.
In spite of your screen name, that comment makes you look like something other than a conservative.
Anti-American, perhaps?
Has DT been asked about what he will do with the LGBT orders? Just wondering.
The so called “Geneva Convention” has got to go. The only country that follows that dumbass commie crap is the U.S. and it has caused the deaths of a lot of American military personnel. If you want to win and end wars, get rid of the dumbass, moronic rules about fighting them. JMO.
I agree he should find a way, but I don’t think an executive order would be necessary.
This law was added to a bill run by a GOP congress. The next GOP congress can write another one. They’ll do it when it’s needed. Enough Democrats will go along when given the right incentive. Democrats went along with waterboarding before, and they can go along with it again.
It doesn’t have to be waterboarding. They can find another method, or they can just call it something else.
President Trump will send this un-American Muslim-loving ex-CIA chief down to Gitmo with his pals. Who’s gonna stop him?
The Geneva Convention specifies that uniformed combatants are subject and non-uniformed are excepted from any rules. They could and should be shot on sight, but nothing is off limits!
Wondering if anyone knows DT’s policy regarding homosexuals and women in combat?
Reports of sexual assault at the three U.S. service academies jumped 55 percent in academic year 2014-2015 while sexual harassment complaints also rose, according to a new Defense Department report.
oh and that is with over the top anti sexual assault brain washing that obviously doesn’t work.
Mikey? Do we need volunteers?
Somebody needs to tell that to the morons on Capitol Hill, their shyster “lawyers” and their pedophile “judges”. Congress’ handcuffs need to be removed from the U.S. military if we are ever going to fight to win again.
Blowtorches & pliers.
The headshoot the subhuman, murderous jihadi filth.
100%
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