According to an anonymous source who told another anonymous source who told me, we are now at DefCon 3.
Posted on 12/27/2020 9:03:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Pentagon and Washington-area military leaders are on red alert, wary of what President Donald Trump might do in his remaining days in office. Though far-fetched, ranking officers have discussed what they would do if the president declared martial law. And military commands responsible for Washington DC are engaged in secret contingency planning in case the armed forces are called upon to maintain or restore civil order during the inauguration and transition period. According to one officer who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity, the planning is being kept out of sight of the White House and Trump loyalists in the Pentagon for fear that it would be shut down.
"I've been associated with the military for over 40 years and I've never seen the discussions that are being had right now, the need for such discussions," says a retired flag officer, currently a defense contractor who has mentored and advised his service's senior leaders. He was granted anonymity in order to speak without fear of reprisal.
A half-dozen officers in similar positions agree that while there is zero chance that the uniformed leadership would involve itself in any scheme to create an election-related reversal, they worry that the military could get sucked into a crisis of Trump's making, particularly if the president tries to rally private militias and pro-Trump paramilitaries in an effort to disrupt the transition and bring violence to the capital.
"Right now, because of coronavirus," one retired judge advocate general says, "the president actually has unprecedented emergency powers, ones that might convince him—particularly if he listens to certain of his supporters—that he has unlimited powers and is above the law."
"But martial law," says the lawyer, "is the wrong paradigm to think about the dangers ahead." Though such proclamation could flow from his order as commander-in-chief,
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“Retired officer-— currently a Defense contractor”... SAYS it ALL! “I’m worried about my RICE BOWL of bennies and goodies that Biden’s corrupt militarocrats (like me) will be stopped from providing in phoney wars and WASTE!
More Newsweek bull crap. They never tire of vomiting it out.
The only people in the military who are on “red alert” are Obama appointed senior officers who fear that Trump will soon somehow fire them.
I used to think our government was a good one and above the many corrupt governments in this world. I used to think Supreme Court justices, most politicians and religious people were decent people. Military too.
> According to one officer who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity... <
Ah, yes. The media’s favorite anti-Trump source is an anonymous source.
I read the article last night. I found it amusing that the brass actually thinks that if they give orders to move against Trump the NCOs and enlisted ranks will actually do anything.
Thank goodness they’re not at DefCon 20!!!
Yep, they are a worthless rag publication. CNN lite
There is bbn o “transition period”.
There is a transition “moment”.
May the Satanic Deep State loyalist brass meet the same fate as Ceaucescu’s Securitate forces.
At least we can still admire the rank and file of the FBI. / sarc
I read it all after mentally filing it into the “ FearPorn “ safety bucket.
Unnamed sources, past bah blah positioned someone’s, plans hidden from President and staff, planning in secret to presumably give those ready a carrot of hope, omg Pepto bidmol needed STAT
The Left are projecting that they want or have been active in planning to subvert the Orders of their Commander in Chief.
“Says a retired flag office”
There’s all you need to know. Retired. And also in need of a refresher course on the flow chart of US military command. POTUS being at the tippy top and retired flag officers nowhere on the chart. This is just your basic Newsweek BS. If Trump invokes the insurrection act and calls up troops/national guard they will be front and center.
Says it all - armed forces would be used to restore order during a fraudulent inauguration and transition period but would absolutely not be used to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States which these people swore an oath to do!
These assholes don’t understand there IS no law, which is why the president has constitutional justification to call on them to fulfill their oath.
This is probably the same brass embossed twat tied into the Transition Integrity project that was claiming they military would stand down if called up to crush Antifa, but would engage “Trump Supporters”
These officers are pining for lamp posts. Read between the lines, they are planning to kill patriots em mass in order to defend Maobama’s revolution.
Expect false flag chaos on Jan 20th as a pretext to subjugate the nation.
According to an anonymous source who told another anonymous source who told me, we are now at DefCon 3.
The direction of the article by Newsweak is to skew opinion against the President by pushing the continuing and relentless narrative that he’s unhinged .....
Unwittingly, the true narrative they pushed is the following...
If true and some senior officers in the Pentagon are secretly plotting against the President and hiding those plans from other officers who might be friendly to the President. this is treason and they need to be immediately arrested .
Stoking the idiots and radicals
Tippecanoe& Adam Schiff too!
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