Posted on 06/02/2020 9:17:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Department of Defense adviser resigned, effective immediately, from the military's science board citing what he believed to be a violation of conduct from Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
In his resignation letter, James Miller Jr., the former under secretary of defense for policy from 2012 to 2014, recalled that he swore an oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States ... and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same," similar to what the defense secretary had done before he took office.
"On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath," Miller wrote in his letter to Esper, which was obtained by The Washington Post.
Miller's reasoning centered around President Donald Trump's controversial visit to St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, on Monday, where he posed with a Bible for photographs as protesters in the surrounding area were hit with smoke canisters and pepper balls at the event, according to the United States Park Police.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop, described the scene to CNN and The Washington Post as an "abuse of sacred symbols" amid a "a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for."
Esper, along with US Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was also present during the visit.
"Law-abiding protesters just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets — not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op," Miller wrote. "You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church for that photo."
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It can’t possibly be the whole thing.
Protestants, especially Baptists and Methodists often only carry The New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs to services.
LOL he resigned from a nothing position for a nothing reason.
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Still media runs to report it. Between all social media platforms silencing conservatives to the media in general spouting utter propaganda it’s a wonder we even have one conservative elected in this country.
Science Board. 50 retired senior members of the military, government, and industry. Probably not even a paid position. No big deal. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Bye Karen.
“Law-abiding protesters”
Yeah, sure. Large, roving gangs of Democrats committing arson, vandalism, armed robbery, looting, trucking piracy, carjacking, extortion, assault, assault with deadly weapons, making death threats, attempted murder, actual murder, and now preparing IED attacks. Just your regular garden-variety law-abiding peaceful protestors. The pretense is gone and Democrats have laid bare their nature for all to see.
What a bunch of pompous asses we've seen paraded in front of the cameras over the last four years. Starting with Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Wray, Vindman, Yoyanovich, etc., all who think their $hit doesn't stink. All full of themselves, and legends in their own minds, but worthless as as a pile of dung. Hissy-fit drama queens.
Whaaaa.
All the garbage from the previous administration should have been cleared out by end of March 2017. I know it’s easier said than done but 3+ years is way too long.
Another Kenyanesian Usurpation holdover.
US Park Police say that they did not use tear gas or rubber bullets to clear the area, and did not know that the President was in the vicinity.
Who you going to believe, a lying radical female clergything, Business Insider (re accurate reporting), this Obama buttboy who resigned, or the Park Police who were on the scene?
Doesn't sound like a real military person. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. You better not be getting a pension.
#22. That looks like the far-left United Methodist Church, possibly on 13th or 16th Street or one close by, that was known as a haunt for radical Methodists and politicians.
However, it was rumored that Clinton had left other churches when the clergymen said that “Laying in bed on Sunday, yelling ‘Oh God, Oh God’ doesn’t mean you went to church”. /sarc (PS: Hillary was not in that bed - Capish?)
Probably one of those leakers.
Wonder if this Miller dude recommended that Obama describe ISIS as a JV Team? In any case this dude has questionable judgment. Biden will snap this loser up.
These poor misguided people need to pull their bibles out
and read part of it.
Military action appears there many times.
Trump is showing his faith, and his prayers to God, that this
situation improves.
Life does go on even if there are protesters who would love
the kill the president just blocks away.
What a pansy.
Good riddance...
Mini-bibles for mini-Christians.
Kinda defeats using the word Bible then to describe it.
So, funny! I didn't. And I would have said it was The New Testament with Pslams and Proverbs like I'm positive it says on the cover and on the title page.
I believe others made the assumption. I knew what it was at a glance.
Come to think of it, if a Church Preaches The Gospel, that's the only book needed.
Exactly. Trump needs to keep trolling these leftards so that they expose themselves. That way, Trump can’t be blamed for firing them.
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