Category: Bureaucraps

No, Mr. Secretary, generals do not have civil service protection or tenure. They serve at the pleasure of the president.
And if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

Five of the ten living former Secretaries of Defense ratcheted up the warfare against President Trump when they signed what they called an “Appeal to Congress.” The gist of their complaint is that they want to veto the President’s choice of his principal military advisor and other senior officers who serve at the pleasure of the President. They like their guys, and they don’t like the President’s choices. The conclusion that the five signers seek to foist on the American public is in their third paragraph: “We, like many Americans — including many troops — are therefore left to conclude that these leaders are being fired for purely partisan reasons.”

Their “Appeal” is nonsense, but dangerous nonsense. It combines historical ignorance with their own partisan attempt to attack President Trump in a way that would weaken civilian control. If their “Appeal” were granted, it also would further the politicization of the military by plunging Congress into disputes relating to military matters that the Constitution entrusts to the President.

“The Army is a dangerous instrument to play with.”

I wonder how many of the signers knew the historical background and significance of George Washington’s advice which they quote to close their Appeal: “The Army is a dangerous instrument to play with.” When he wrote that in February 1783, Washington was warning Hamilton against trying to use the military to further political ends and undercut civilian control of the military. It was one of Washington’s many affirmations of the necessity for civilian control of the military.

And if the President — any president — does not have the sole power to relieve senior military officials, and if he is required to report to both the House and the Senate to “justify each firing” as the Appeal advocates, then the president no longer has full control of his senior military officers or of the Army.

Washington’s warning fully supports civilian control over the military, including — especially — over those whom the signers refer to as “senior U.S. military leaders.” And our Constitution reposes that civilian control in only one man — the President. By trying to usurp this presidential control of the military, these former secretaries are attempting to weaken the bedrock principal that the military must be controlled by its civilian masters.

Thus, General Washington’s warning most certainly does not support these rebellious signers’ efforts to hamper civilian control over the military. Just the opposite; Washington refutes them.

Aside from this example of historical ignorance, there are many other reasons to repudiate the rebellious signers’ “Appeal.” Let us consider some of them.

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One more goobermint disaster to lay right at the feet of the demoncraps

National Security NIGHTMARE: How Radical Trans Activists Hijacked America’s Spy Agencies

Everything you suspected might be going on in the Federal Government these past fours years is turning out to be true.

For instance, if you thought radical transgenderism was being pushed on agencies and employees to the detriment of the government’s core mission, it looks like you can take off the tin foil hat. One whistleblower says it’s all true, and it’s probably worse than you imagined.

RedState’s Bonchie reported earlier this week how the National Security Agency’s Intelink messaging program was used by federal employees to engage in debauched conversations about transgender fetishes and transitioning. From Bonchie:

While the mainstream press screams bloody murder over the Trump administration’s trimming back of the bureaucratic state, shocking new details have emerged about how government resources were being misused. A new report from City Journal has obtained chat logs showing NSA representatives, including from the CIA and FBI, used the NSA’s government interlink program to discuss various transgender fetishes and aspects of “transitioning.”…..

On Wednesday, Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and conservative commentator, pulled back the curtain even more by sharing what an NSA whistleblower revealed to him in an interview: “It’s going to get people killed in the field.” And that’s because, as Rufo noted in the interview prologue, the shenanigans at the NSA are high stakes: “The agency is responsible for overseeing America’s digital intelligence-gathering and is, in theory, a key part of our national security apparatus.” The stakes can’t get much higher than that.

The whistleblower explained that things started out on a small scale about a decade ago — a meeting here, a potluck there. Couched as “employee resource groups,” staffers were gathered to discuss things like racism, veterans issues and, of course, gay pride. Said the whistleblower: “Then it started to get more and more. Instead of just one day a month, it was one week a month, or the whole month.”

Things got really out of hand.

And then everything became Pride. You would go to a training, and it would be about “privilege” and “how to be a better ally.” A lady would give classes on how to talk “gender-neutral” to people.

You had analysts that didn’t want to do the reporting they were supposed to be doing because they were going to have to report on somebody’s “dead name.”

They were having this crisis of conscience about reporting the adversary’s actual name because they thought it was their “dead name,” and they didn’t want to disrespect the person. It was like a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology.

When asked by Rufo about the role a “clique” of male-to-female transitioners played in spreading the trans propaganda throughout the agency, the whistleblower responded:

There is a very small number of them, but they wield an enormous amount of power. And outside of the sick stuff, you also see a prevalent Marxist philosophy going on with these people in their chat rooms. They hate capitalism. They hate Christians. They’re always espousing socialist and Marxist beliefs.

The new Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, oversees the NSA and has acted quickly to root out the radicals in the agency, giving a Friday deadline for identifying the participants in the smutty chats. They can all expect to get pink slips.

It’s a good start, but, as the whistleblower told Rufo, it won’t be easy to root them all out. “I wish I could say I see it playing out well, with them following the orders and doing it. But after the last four years, I just don’t know.”