Weeny McRaven Correction, or perhaps not, William
Posted on 09/14/2018 11:39:26 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Bill McRaven, former chancellor of the University of Texas System and a current UT-Austin professor, resigned on Aug. 20 from the Pentagon’s technology advisory board, multiple news outlets reported Thursday.
His resignation came four days after The Washington Post published an opinion piece he wrote that criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan.
“Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation,” McRaven wrote. “If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken.”
The board McRaven resigned from was a group of technology leaders and innovators tasked with advising the secretary of defense.
McRaven, a retired four-star admiral and Navy SEAL, teaches classes at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He majored in journalism at UT.
we used to have a patriotic rat party......those days are long gone....
More interesting that he put in for retirement after ISIS took Mosul in June 2014 when he was head of United States Special Operations Command.
Yes and Benedict Arnold was very accomplished too!
Q: What do you call 500 former general/flag officers being fired from their Washington jobs?
A: A good start.
I assume he is protecting his military retirement check by resigning.
I assume he is resigning from a do nothing military board and keeps on cashing the do nothing corporate BOD checks he is no doubt on.
What has embarrassed us and our children are the actions of the Democrats in the confirmation hearings.
Really does seem like McRavencain is preparing to run for office as a Democrat.
The rats in the confirmation hearings were so bad that Canada and Mexico are also embarrassed.
McRaven is probably planning on running against empty suit Cornyn in 2020. That’s why he is hysterically channeling Corey Booker these days.
Bye asshole we don’t need you. Patriots only.
That’s entirely possible. I am wondering how many more are out there like this? If we have a civil war, I don’t think we can completely rely on the military, to be on our side.
Ouch.
Wasn’t it under Bill Clinton back in the early 90s, around the time of the Tailhook scandal that cleared out a lot of Navy aviators - that a high-ranking black SEAL commander was forced out? I wonder who benefitted by his removal?
Journalism? How did that prepare him to be an Admiral?
The loon must have swallowed too much sea water. His brain is soft.
My memory of fellow USAF Officers was that we were a conservative minded group and no one spoke badly of the leadership at the time, Kennedy and LBJ. We may not have voted for them but they were the CINCs.
I still haven’t seen anything that shows he wrote that op-ed.
Anyone have a link to one that does?
Weeny McRaven Correction, or perhaps not, William
You can bet your britches that Darth Mattis read him the riot act, USMC style.
Swamp creature by extension. Good riddance
Clinton and Odungo purged the military ...got rid of many good people
Anyone have a link to one that does?
I am thinking, if he didn’t write it, he would have been shouting that, from the roof tops.
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