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Obama Pentagon Official Says Anti-Trump Military Coup Now Possible
The Washington Times ^ | February 02, 2017 | Carlo Muñoz

Posted on 02/04/2017 10:01:37 PM PST by Steelfish

Obama Pentagon Official Says Anti-Trump Military Coup Now Possible Says Trump ‘as crazy as everyone feared’; claims military overthrow and ‘an insane order’ both ‘frightening’

By Carlo Muñoz - February 2, 2017.

A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the specter of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power.

In an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history.

“Donald Trump’s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared,” Ms. Brooks wrote. “[One] possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.”

For the first time in her career in public service, including three years as senior counselor to the Pentagon’s policy chief from 2009 to 2011, “I can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: ‘No, sir. We’re not doing that.’”

Ms. Brooks‘ editorial comes as a recent poll by Public Policy Polling group found that 40 percent of registered voters support Mr. Trump’s impeachment. In addition, 52 percent of voters polled said they would rather have President Obama in the Oval Office, opposed to the 43 percent who support the Trump presidency.

In the editorial, Ms. Brooks noted that Mr. Trump’s “thin-skinned, erratic, and unconstrained” approach to defense matters of defense could put top U.S. military leaders in a position where they would be forced to execute orders that may be “dangerously unhinged” from a basic understanding of national security.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bhodod; coup; first100days; insurrection; militarycoup; rosabrooks; sedition; trump45; trumpdod
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To: Steelfish

A curious person might wonder why Ms. Brooks is still walking around free, instead of being in jail.


101 posted on 02/05/2017 2:17:40 AM PST by TheConservativeBanker
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To: funfan

Thanks for the twitter link.

He does not like our President....and is bold about showing it....and he is military.


102 posted on 02/05/2017 2:28:06 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Steelfish

will someone please pop ms brooks


103 posted on 02/05/2017 2:37:23 AM PST by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: Steelfish

This woman is a lawyer who served in an appointed position at obama’s Pentagon. She has no military experience and her insights into military culture, especially wrt something as anathema to senior military as a coup, are worthless and based on liberal wet dreams.


104 posted on 02/05/2017 2:52:07 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Steelfish

The woman is nothing more than a liberal law hack who was hired by the Obama administration as a Political Officer stationed in the Pentagon. Kind of like how the Russians always had a political officer on board their submarines.

Never in the military, no distinguished history of DoD service, nor anything of the sort. Other than the direction from Obama to the Pentagon and spying on the Pentagon for Obama, she KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT the military with the exception of know who in the Pentagon is a quisling and who is not.

Quite plainly, she is just talking out her ass as she had been directed to do from those LOSERS who didn’t understand the real America, or its military. If she truly did, she’d understand how completely asinine and ridiculous her mind-spew is.


105 posted on 02/05/2017 3:44:22 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Steelfish

Meet General Rosa Brooks
A Senior Military Advisor who survived the killing fields of Georgetown Law
A decorated combat veteran in the Soros- funded “ New America Foundation” that found white radicals a greater threat than islamic radicals

http://rosabrooks.com/about.html


106 posted on 02/05/2017 3:52:22 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Steelfish
Only one of these outcomes is actually "now possible."

1. A rebel alliance overthrows our constitutionally elected government.

2. Hillary Rodham Clinton dies of old age in a 6' by 10' cell in the Federal Correctional Complex at Victorville, California.

My money is on #2, Rosa baby.

107 posted on 02/05/2017 3:58:12 AM PST by greedo
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To: Steelfish

I know Obama gutted our military but I seriously doubt that they would be a part of a coup against our government and our nation. If so, then the population will need to become the military and lots of people are armed in America.


108 posted on 02/05/2017 4:04:56 AM PST by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Steelfish

baloney


109 posted on 02/05/2017 4:10:20 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Steelfish
A former Defense Department official under the Obama administrationM

Well not quite......

"Rosa Brooks is a law professor and the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Georgetown University Law Center, a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009 to July 2011, she served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, and in May 2010 she also became[1] Special Coordinator for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy, running a new Pentagon office dedicated to those issues. Brooks wrote a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times from 2005 to 2009, and is an expert on national security, international law and human rights issues. At the Pentagon her portfolio included both rule of law and human rights issues and global engagement, strategic communication, and she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for her work."

110 posted on 02/05/2017 4:14:04 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: supremedoctrine

Yes, we chewed on this a couple of days ago...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3520831/posts


111 posted on 02/05/2017 4:24:01 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: Steelfish
Looks like the snowflake pansies have their own "concerns" about Trump.

Maybe we should ask all them pansies to stop the crap and do something useful - perhaps if they

Donate to FR

they'll feel better.

112 posted on 02/05/2017 4:26:17 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kenny

Yes, me thinks they want Trump to order soldiers into the the streets.


113 posted on 02/05/2017 4:28:20 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: Steelfish

The military coup was back in 2009 when the usurper Obama was installed into the white house. Sworn oaths to defend the Constitution were abandoned.


114 posted on 02/05/2017 4:31:33 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: FredZarguna

Which leads in inexorably to the question: why was the daughter — or any relative of Barbara Ehrenreich — ever hired as an advisor to the US military?


A rhetorical question I suppose. She and Obama are philosophical soul mates.


115 posted on 02/05/2017 4:35:13 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: BenLurkin

“What did Trump do that was ‘crazy?’”

Nothing crazy. But since people aren’t accustomed to seeing the President do his job at 100% speed and keep his promises, they aren’t able to process it. If it isn’t what they perceive as normal, it must be “crazy”.


116 posted on 02/05/2017 4:35:54 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Steelfish
Doesn't she look like the type that would be close to the pulse of military leaders? (Maybe she's talking about HER military... the FemiNazis, jihadis and transsexuals Obama's had been recruiting?)

THANKS GOD FOR TRUMP AND MATTHIS!


117 posted on 02/05/2017 4:44:34 AM PST by drpix
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To: Fai Mao
Since you brought it up . . .

I always thought a military coup against 0bama would have been appropriate, as much as I DESPISE saying that, since he really was a Domestic enemy of America. That said, I'm glad it didn't happen.

Given how much Clinton hated the military, it wouldn't have been too surprising, but it would have been less warranted, IMHO, than against 0bama. JMHO, and thank GOD all of the above is theoretical anyway.

118 posted on 02/05/2017 4:52:14 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: funfan; All

“She is married to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Mouer,[21] an Army Special Forces officer


He is retired. The picture at the twitter feed is of a Ranger class.

Maybe Travis McGee can help us determine if LTC Joseph Mouer, is actually special forces.

His Linkedin site says he is. Looks legitimate.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephmouer


119 posted on 02/05/2017 4:53:31 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: Steelfish

And we know how reliable an Obama official is!!!


120 posted on 02/05/2017 5:01:35 AM PST by ontap
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