Posted on 09/29/2021 11:54:49 PM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday apologized to Gen. Mark Milley for what she called "despicable" questioning of the top military general by fellow Republican lawmakers during a congressional hearing, as the Joint Chiefs chairman fielded questions about comments he made following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and phone calls he had with a Chinese official to assure them that the U.S. was not preparing an attack.
Cheney, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing about the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, opened her five minutes of questioning by discussing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, arguing that some lawmakers “failed to do their duty.”
Cheney is one of two Republicans to sit on the select committee probing the riots, along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.).
“In the aftermath of that attack, many of the members of our constitutional system failed to do their duty. Many of them punted, many of them today are still attempting to obstruct the investigation into that attack, attempting to whitewash what happened,” Cheney said.
She was referring to the refusal by a number of GOP lawmakers to vote to certify the 2020 presidential election results in certain states that former President Trump lost, and Republicans’ opposition to taking part in the House’s probe of the attack.
Cheney criticized fellow Republican on the panel for questioning the general’s loyalty to the U.S., calling the actions “despicable.”
“For any member of this committee, for any American, to question your loyalty to our nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, your loyalty to our Constitution, your recognition and understanding of the civilian chain of command, is despicable,” Cheney said.
“I want to apologize for those members of this committee who've done so, and I want to thank you for standing in the breach when so many, including many in this room, failed to do so,” she added.
Several GOP representatives questioned the Joint Chiefs chairman about a conversation he had with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) following the Jan. 6 attack, and alleged phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart pertaining to a potential attack by the U.S.
The revelations were first reported in the book “Peril,” written by veteran journalist Bob Woodward and The Washington Post’s Robert Costa.
The book details a phone call between Milley and Pelosi, in which the general agreed with the Speaker’s interpretation that Trump was “crazy.”
The book also reports that Milley spoke with Chinese General Li Zuocheng to reassure his counterpart that the U.S. was not preparing a strike against China, and to note that America was not on the brink of collapse following the Jan. 6 attack.
Milley defended the phone calls during Wednesday’s hearing, arguing that he would never “tip off the enemy about what the United States is going to do in an actual plan.”
A number of Republicans used the bombshell reports to question the general’s credibility.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) said Milley’s call with Li went against the U.S. and is “worthy of your resignation.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) accused Milley of “undermining the chain of command.”
“You said yesterday that you weren't going to resign when senators asked you this question, and I believe that you guys probably won't resign,” Gaetz said, according to NBC News. "You seem to be very happy failing up over there. But if we didn't have a president that was so addled, you all would be fired.”
Well Guantanamo Bay is ‘rigged for red’ - as in deep state red commies going to finish their ‘terms’ there!
The hatred runs deep with this one...
She will be funded by the Elites to run against DJT in 2024...
The MEDIA will need a stalking horse for Anti-Trump, Anti-MAGA soundbites leading up to the election...
That’s exactly what is going to happen. The GOP hope to cause a political food fight that depresses suburban turnout for Trump and ensures a Democrat victory. Nothing “conservative” about that.
Could we add Rove, and McConnell, and Graham, ——— we need a party. The ones we have don’t represent the American people, one stands for world socialism, the other, the deep state swamp. Time to water the tree.
FIXED!
Clearly angling for a job at Raytheon in a little over a year.
The guy lies. Pompeo and others say he never notified them.
The only despicable people are Cheny and Milley.
Not a single word from the GOP on this vulture?
“Starting?”
She apologized to a traitor for Republicans doing their jobs.
“Cheney, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing about the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, opened her five minutes of questioning by discussing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol...”
She is really unhinged. What does Jan 6 have to do with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan?
That woman is an out and out traitor. She is on par with Nancy Pelosi. This nation is so corrupt, there is no hope.
If McCarthy was not a coconspirator he would yank her committee assignments.
She’s a bitter human being. She cares only about the Cheney and Bush legacies.
Trump doesn’t and they want to make him pay.
When is she announcing her MSNBC gig?
Fat Liz!
The kind of non-military trained greedy a@@hole who tried to PLAN the Iraq I invasion and force the US Military to actuate it.
And— he WAS implicit along with another incompetent “failing up” quota hire of Jamaican/American Colin Powell (a GHWBush benefactor lib hire)— who ORDERED Schwarzkopf to stop the push on into Baghdad because US forces had wiped out an escaping column of Iraqis in armored/military vehicles stretching a mile— and dubbed by the “horrified” GHWBush’s pal media as “The Highway of Death”. As a result we did not capture Saddam Hussein THEN, and stretched out the military presence in Iraq until another “operation” was needed because Daddy Bush had a death threat from Saddam. No kidding— the MIL-Industrial Cheney pals stretched out an operation that could have been settled ... right then. But there is no profit in a short “conflict” that is resolved.
Instead, Cheney ignored/overridden forcefully by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Commander of the forces who explained the battle plan post execution in a forthright manner recorded for the ages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKi3NwLFkX4
Cheney needs to stop the charade and be honest about her being a Marxist Communist Totalitarian like Milley and his woke supporters. No question, he is the military part of the coup d’etat supporting the BidenHarris Junta.
F U Liz Cheney
No one personifies better what’s wrong with Washington than this nitwit. She knows there will be no long term repercussions from her abandonment of her constituents. She may lose her seat, but there’s more lucrative opportunities ahead while staying firmly entrenched in DC politics.
There’s simply no downside to her behavior — or any other Republican who wishes to walk away from their people…
She is a duplicitous bitch and those are her good qualities.
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