{"id":84149,"date":"2021-09-15T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=84149"},"modified":"2021-09-15T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T22:48:10","slug":"trumps-secretary-of-defense-refutes-milleys-regular-comms-excuse-with-china-calls-for-immediate-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=84149","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Secretary of Defense Refutes Milley&#8217;s &#8216;Regular Comms&#8217; Excuse with China, Calls For Immediate Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/former-secdef-miller-says-he-did-not-approve-calls-china-defense-chief-says\">JustTheNews.com&#8217;s Susan Katz Keating reports\u00a0<\/a>that\u00a0<strong>the former Pentagon chief said he did not authorize Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to directly contact China&#8217;s top military commander<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; contrary to Milley&#8217;s claims that his conversations with Beijing were approved by defense officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Miller said he\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;as secretary of defense,\u00a0did not and would not ever authorize&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to hold &#8220;secret&#8221; conversations with the Chinese defense chief.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-acting-defense-sec-miller-says-he-did-not-authorize-milley-china-calls-says-he-should-resign\">a statement<\/a>\u00a0to Fox News, Miller said\u00a0<strong>the alleged calls were a &#8220;disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest-ranking military officer whose sole role is providing military-specific advice to the president, and by law is prohibited from exercising executive authority to command forces,&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense, not through the Chairman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Miller added that if the story of Milley\u2019s &#8220;histrionic outbursts and unsanctioned, anti-Constitutional involvement in foreign policy prove true, he must resign immediately or be fired by the Secretary of Defense to guarantee the sanctity of the officer corps.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/should-general-milley-be-relieved-duty\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/should-general-milley-be-relieved-duty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}