Navy Sec resigns/fired - can't endorse lawlessness

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 6:52pm |

BREAKING: DefSec Esper just asked for the resignation of Navy Sec'y Richard V. Spencer after losing confidence in him for privately pressing WH officials to not interfere w/proceedings against Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq.https://t.co/VqvwNZ5zb8
— Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) November 24, 2019

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"That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them"

The Gulag Archipelago, The History of Our Sewage Disposal System (under Stalin), Solzhenitsyn

Trump continues to break the traditions and the "system", which should consist of an impersonal, functional legal-rational exercise of power, the foundation of the ideal modern state system.

There is no bottom to this barrel. There isn't even a barrel.

by NCD on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 7:41pm

Spencer's letter:

Outgoing Secretary of the Navy Spencer’s acknowledgment-of-termination letter says that he “cannot in good conscience” obey an order he believes “violates the sacred oath“ he took & that he and POTUS disagree on the “key principle of good order and discipline” pic.twitter.com/EZ8YPM7M0L
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 24, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 9:08pm

and from following the past news on the Gallagher thing here on this thread, I got the strong impression that the majority of not just the Seal forces but of our "troops" in general are with their Navy boss on this and not his higher-ups. It's a Nuremberberg type thing with them, a kind of rare thing where there are higher ups than the commander-in-chief, as it were.

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 9:32pm

Holy smokes. This makes Mattis's letter look like a polite disagreement. https://t.co/hVIeKXbbtg
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 24, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 10:05pm

NavyTimes.com and on MilitaryTimes.com home page:

Spencer out as Navy secretary over SEAL trident scandal

The Pentagon has asked the White House to consider Kenneth Braithwaite, the current U.S. ambassador to Norway and a retired Navy rear admiral, as the next Secretary of the Navy.

By Carl Prine, 3 hrs. ago

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 9:41pm

U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE

Retired Rear Adm. Kenneth Braithwaite Tapped to be Next SECNAV

By: Ben Werner

November 25, 2019 9:20 PM

THE PENTAGON – President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate retired Rear Adm. Kenneth Braithwaite, the current U.S. ambassador to Norway, to be the next secretary of the Navy.

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 1:10am

Fox talking heads no longer supporting the troops in their Christian righteousness role?

You guys, God doesn’t pick the guy who jails the kids and pardons the war criminals, leaves the Kurds for slaughter. That’s not God, that’s the other guy. https://t.co/rM2GymRQ80
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 25, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 9:43pm

Satan has used imperfect people since forever too. How to tell apart?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 4:07pm

The Navy secretary's resignation was a long time coming, FP's @laraseligman reports. https://t.co/pYEiDq4SOt
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) November 26, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 2:52pm

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