Posted on 09/14/2021 12:46:07 PM PDT by algore
Milley as the top ranking military officer met with top military officials in the Pentagon two days after the MAGA riot and telling them to keep him in the process for all military actions, including the use of nuclear weapons.
It also involved outreach to Milley's counterpart in the Chinese military to provide reassurances the US would not strike its rival, according to the book.
'If you get calls, no matter who they’re from, there’s a process here, there’s a procedure. No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure,' he told top US military officials inside the Pentagon's war room two days after the riot,'
'You never know what a president's trigger point is,' Milley told them, according to the book, which relies on Woodward's well-established methods of relying on 'deep background' information provided sources, some of them anonymously, as well as documents and interviews, to attempt to reconstruct events and conversations.
He feared Trump was suffering 'serious mental decline,' Woodward and coauthor Bob Costa reported.
Milley told them, according to the book: 'The strict procedures are explicitly designed to avoid inadvertent mistakes or accident or nefarious, unintentional, illegal, immoral, unethical launching of the world’s most dangerous weapons.'
'Got it?' Milley asked his team members. 'Yes, sir,' they replied, in an exchange Milley considered 'an oath.'
Milley told CIA Director Gina Haspel: 'Aggressively watch everything, 360.' The authors write that Milley was concerned Trump might go 'rogue.'
Just as stunning were Milley's reported actions that same date to the head of China's powerful military, to reassure his counterpart that the US was not going to attack China and set off a clash with a major nuclear power.
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Hmmm....does Woodward’s book deal trace back to a US publisher ultimately owned by a wealthy family in Stuttgart, Germany, by any chance? So many lib tell-all books do.
so true. slickening, but true.
so true. slickening, but true.
Exactly my point. He’s (they are) essentially an advisory body to the CINC, just like NSA etc.
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