The China thing may be less of an issue. Senior officers reaching out to their opposite number during times of uncertainty is not unprecedented. (Talking about it...well.) But going the Full Schlesinger makes me itch - and makes me ask where SECDEF was.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarcBodnick
MacArthur was - quite rightly - fired for less.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @MarcBodnick
I disagree and it's a pointless analogy. What you should be asking is why so many people, from Mattis to Milley and others - felt like they had to create constitutional innovations to get around a lunatic, and then ask how you can prevent that lunatic from returning to power.
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Whether Milley should be fired is, for me, still something I'm trying to parse by analogy with 1974. But "this is all about Milley" is the wrong end of the telescope.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarcBodnick
Milley is, currently, in a position of power, so he's the most important part of the story.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @MarcBodnick
And yet we had revelations of this kind when Trump was in the White House. Not just for Milley, but from Mattis and others. So Trump and the GOP are never the story, just whoever ends up dealing with the fallout from him being insane.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarcBodnick
We had a presidential election in which Trump's unfitness for office was, quite rightly, litigated extensively, resulting in his defeat by a decrepit fabulist with the depth of a teaspoon. Sorry, whatabout Trump does not excuse the current uniformed chief from accountability.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @MarcBodnick
I just want to know whether you were in favor of firing Milley - and Mattis - when Trump was in office. Were you? Because you have plenty of evidence from previous revelations that they were working around Trump this way. Mattis was openly running DOD with a moat around it.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @MarcBodnick
I said throughout the Trump era that the reactions to Trump were often the greater danger to our system. I was uncomfortable with people working around Trump, but this goes way beyond that.
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Pence had the constitutional power to relieve the impaired POTUS, but failed to exercise that power.
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I was open to considering that after 1/6, but it depended on an aggressive reading of the 25A that could easily have come back to haunt us, so I'm glad it wasn't done.
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Since it would've involved the VP and majority of Trump's own cabinet, I'd have been less concerned about blowback.
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