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FBI probes Democrats who taped viral video message to military
Roll Call ^ | November 25, 2025 at 6:01pm, Updated at 7:53pm | John M. Donnelly

Posted on 11/27/2025 4:22:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Inquiry comes after the six lawmakers encouraged military to refuse orders they think are illegal

Members of Congress who produced an explosive video last week said Tuesday they have been informed that the FBI is investigating them.

The agency is seeking interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers, who were contacted through their respective chambers’ sergeant-at-arms’ offices, the members said.

In the video posted last Thursday, four House members and two senators who served in the military or in the CIA urged those currently serving in U.S. military and intelligence positions to disobey unlawful orders.

An FBI spokesperson declined to comment Tuesday evening on the reported investigation.

The report of an FBI probe came a day after the Pentagon said it was probing one of the lawmakers, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for alleged misconduct over the video.

[Pentagon to review ‘allegations of misconduct’ against Kelly]

Kelly retired as a Navy captain after more than two decades of service and so falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Citing “serious allegations of misconduct,” the Defense Department said Monday it was initiating a thorough review of Kelly’s actions and that the Pentagon had the right to recall Kelly to active duty for possible “court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.”

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made public a memo to Navy Secretary John Phelan notifying the secretary of “potentially unlawful conduct” by Kelly and referring the department’s investigation to him.

Hegseth asked for a briefing on Phelan’s review no later than Dec. 10.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a former CIA and Defense Department official who serves on the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs panels, posted on X that she has been told the FBI is investigating her.

“Last night, the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division appeared...”

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1 posted on 11/27/2025 4:22:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And in the end they will get what? Strongly worded letters of course. MAGAAns are being hoodwinked again.


2 posted on 11/27/2025 4:24:16 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

each should be FIRED, TRIED, JAILED, and FINED.

they have EACH chosen treason to help other governments
and schemes.


3 posted on 11/27/2025 4:24:40 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

In before a lower district court judge rules against Hegseth and any authority he has regarding this.


4 posted on 11/27/2025 4:27:12 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
These six were engaged in a low brow publicity stunt and should be called out on it. Their inference by this publicity stunt is that Trump has or will issue illegal orders, which there is no evidence of. Everyone in the military knows they have a duty to not follow illegal orders, they don't need lecturing by these numbnuts on that. They were trying to undermine the authority and question the legitimacy of Trump as President, which is what the democrats have been trying to do since he was first elected.

It's the political equivalent of announcing in public that the wife of the neighbor you hate should go to the police if he beats her. It's designed to sow the idea in others that he does beat her even though it's not true. It's designed to undermine their legitimacy. It's slimy but might be legal to take a cheap shot at your neighbor, it's not OK to try and undermine the Commander in Chief's authority over the military.

5 posted on 11/27/2025 4:39:01 AM PST by GaryCrow
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“These six were engaged in a low brow publicity stunt and should be called out on it.”

Do they look scared? There never are consequences for the evil and crimes done by RATs.

“Their inference by this publicity stunt is that Trump has or will issue illegal orders”

Their implication in the stunt most likely was the impetus for the most recent shooting in DC.


6 posted on 11/27/2025 4:43:14 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: GaryCrow
These six were engaged in a low brow publicity stunt and should be called out on it.

This was an orchestrated color revolution psyop engineered by Brennan intended to foment violence to set the stage for a military coup.

7 posted on 11/27/2025 4:46:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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8 posted on 11/27/2025 4:50:32 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They said military had to be “vigilant” to illegal orders - which can pn;y mean they were supposed to make the determination themselves. Pure sedition. Firing squad.


9 posted on 11/27/2025 4:52:23 AM PST by anton
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats trying to create doubt about orders coming from the President. When an order is given, there is sometimes not time to disagree.


10 posted on 11/27/2025 5:03:36 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What are the Democrats trying to accomplish, by preaching to the military? It is a sign of disrespect to the President to point the finger implying all orders always shouldn’t be followed.
It disrupts the chain of command in the military.


11 posted on 11/27/2025 5:07:12 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: anton

The order is now given to investigate Senators who are wondering off into never never land.


12 posted on 11/27/2025 5:09:35 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have ZERO faith in the FBI. I have ZERO faith in the Federal Government. Why? Because our government is not Our Government. The Government works for someone else somewhere else. I know this because for the last 40 years it has been a continuous downward spiral that IGNORS THE RESULTS OF ELECTIONS. Dem or Rep the downward spiral continues without interruption no matter what the people say or do. Prove me wrong.


13 posted on 11/27/2025 6:06:02 AM PST by Skul
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The video production was not stupidity, it was a psyop, a studied CIA method to soften up the domestic military in a country, to cause the military to doubt existing authority and order. In ‘color revolution’ training manuals it’s a necessary first step to effect internal revolution. Obvious, any overthrow requires the military’s participation, if not by affirmative action, at least through acquiescence.


14 posted on 11/27/2025 6:07:22 AM PST by iontheball (, )
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Yup. Patel and Bongino have been massive disappointments.


15 posted on 11/27/2025 6:11:12 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: anton

> which can only mean they were supposed to make the determination themselves.<

The Supreme Court ruled on this in Parker v Levy.
https://militarytrialdefenders.com/blog/military-law-lawyers-explain/

If it takes two trials, two appeals, and the US Supreme Court - using the brightest legal minds in the country- to determine the legality of the UCMJ, what makes these jackwagons think and 18 year old with a Covid stunted high school education can determine legality of an order?

As a start, Slotkin should immediately be removed from the Armed Services committee and Kelly should be recalled to active duty.

EC


16 posted on 11/27/2025 6:43:48 AM PST by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Another investigation. Yay.

By the end of DJT’s term we will have had 200+investigations, dozens of criminal referrals, less than a dozen actual indictments, maybe an actual trial or two….

No one is going to jail.

And when the demhole crime family is back in power, it’ll be open season on all who do not agree with them. The Biden years will seem like the good old days of law & order and honest government.


17 posted on 11/27/2025 6:46:47 AM PST by wny
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“unlawful orders” means lawful orders.


18 posted on 11/27/2025 6:47:04 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: wny

besides bitching, what do YOU propose be done?

You seem to be advocating, do nothing.

Trump is standing up to things big and small. Sometimes you get a home run, sometimes you get on base. Sometimes you strike out.

But the thing Trump has proven to us is that he will stay in the game and be there for the next swing.


19 posted on 11/27/2025 6:55:21 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: FreedBird

No, this is a call to treason.

TimPool laid this out. One Demo says anyone who = Hitler should be killed. Then, another says: “That guy, he = Hitler.” Niether broke the law. But, the trans nutjob who actually murders takes the blame as a lone wolf.

These six arseholes are doing the same.


20 posted on 11/27/2025 8:06:38 AM PST by bobbo666
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