Milley's Treason

According to veteran Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, General Mark "Thoroughly Modern" Milley staged an insurrection of his own at the Pentagon in the final weeks of the Trump presidency. 

In a new book set to be released next week, Woodward and Costa claim that Milley engaged in a series of actions deliberately designed to undermine and circumvent President Trump's authority as commander-in-chief. 

They allege that Milley called his communist Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, in late October to assure him that the United States wasn't planning an attack. Milley's call was supposedly based on intelligence that Beijing interpreted a scheduled naval exercise as a preemptive strike. So, Milley called Li and told him:

"We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you. General Li, you and I have known each other now for five years. If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise."

Really? Warning our enemies in advance is now U.S. policy?

Woodward and Costa also report that Milley agreed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's demand to prevent President Trump from exercising full control of America's nuclear arsenal. Milley reportedly made senior Pentagon officers swear an "oath" to him.

Responding to these allegations, Sen. Marco Rubio, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to President Biden demanding Milley be fired immediately. Sen. Rand Paul called for Milley to be court-martialed for treason. 

Christopher Miller, Trump's last secretary of defense, said he did not authorize such calls by Milley, and described them as a "disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination." 

Regardless of what one thinks of Donald Trump, Milley's actions severely undermined the Constitution and the civilian chain of command.

But it seems that Milley's position is safe. The Pentagon is defending him, and, not surprisingly, so is President Biden.