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So I was planning to do this topic 11 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,079 even before I heard the top of the hour newscast. 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:42,640 Brandon Dixon just did the same story. But I'm gonna 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,439 do it anyway. I'm not copying him, I promise. The 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:54,640 Pentagon has placed two top political appointees under administrative leave. 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:00,759 Is it under administrative leave or on administry? It sounds 16 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:04,439 like one would be above the other, like literally anyway, 17 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,840 they're on administrative leave after a probe into potential leaks 18 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:14,400 of sensitive information. According to three defense officials, two guys, 19 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:21,200 Dan Caldwell and Darren selnick So. Dan Caldwell is a 20 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:27,200 senior advisor to the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Dan Caldwell 21 00:01:27,359 --> 00:01:31,319 was reportedly this is from the Politico story, was escorted 22 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:35,680 out of the Pentagon by security officers and had his 23 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:42,040 building access suspended pending further investigation. This according to two 24 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,799 officials who were granted anonymity to leak the sorry to 25 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,200 discuss the ongoing probe. Isn't this kind of weird? You've 26 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:55,959 got the story of this coming out and being leaked 27 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,799 out essentially by some anonymous people, when that's precisely what 28 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:07,480 they're trying to prevent, like this story relies on leaks, 29 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:13,599 story about busting some leakers. Darren Selnik, the Pentagon's deputy 30 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,919 chief of staff, was also suspended as part of the 31 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,479 same probe and escorted out of the building according to 32 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:23,680 one of the officials. Okay, so it sounds like they 33 00:02:23,759 --> 00:02:27,560 got three defense officials. Two of them know of the 34 00:02:27,759 --> 00:02:34,159 Dan Caldwell escort and one knows about the Darren Selnik escort. 35 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:41,520 The leaks under investigation include military operational plans for the 36 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:46,120 Panama Canal, a second carrier headed to the Red Sea, 37 00:02:47,719 --> 00:02:52,719 Elon Musk's controversial visit to the Pentagon, as well as 38 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:59,159 pausing the collection of intelligence to Ukraine. So those are 39 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:01,479 the leaks that the Pegon is trying to figure out 40 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:08,199 who committed them, operational military operational plans for Panama, second 41 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,879 carrier headed to the Red Sea, Musk's visit to the Pentagon, 42 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,680 and we're not going to give Ukraine any more intel. 43 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,400 Those four stories. The suspensions come as the Trump administration 44 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,520 seeks to root out leaks, including at the Defense Department. 45 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,960 A March memo signed by Hegseeth's chief of staff asked 46 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,879 the Pentagon's Director for Defense Intelligence to look into unauthorized 47 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,759 disclosures and approved the use of polygraphs. By the way, 48 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,840 do you know how to beat a polygraph? 49 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: You can? 50 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: You can beat a polygraph? Should I tell people how 51 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,919 to do? This is not illegal? I don't think it's 52 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:49,439 illegal for me to tell people how to beat a polygraph. 53 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:58,439 It's it's called the pucker factor. If you every when 54 00:03:58,439 --> 00:04:01,599 they sit you down and they start asking you questions, right, 55 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:02,879 they always start with you know? 56 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:06,319 Speaker 1: Are you you know? The age you are? Is? 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,759 Speaker 2: Your name? What your name is? And they do that 58 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,599 to get the baseline read right. Well, if you are 59 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:18,720 to clench a particular muscle upon which you sit every 60 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:23,040 single time you answer the question, it creates a spike, 61 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,079 and then that becomes the norm and that's how you 62 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:35,240 mask every single answer, true or false. And law enforcement 63 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,040 apparently knew this a long time ago, and they told 64 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,279 the guy who invented it, and then he proceeded to 65 00:04:42,639 --> 00:04:45,680 test that theory and it turned out to be true, 66 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,160 and then he ran around the country advising and lobbying 67 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,959 against the use of polygraph detectors. 68 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: A lot of detectors. So yeah, so. 69 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,639 Speaker 2: I mean they can be somewhat useful on occasion, I guess, 70 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,120 but you know, once you know, it's kind of like, well, 71 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,480 what's the point of these things? But and I'm sure 72 00:05:03,519 --> 00:05:05,319 that these guys have been trained in how to do 73 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,560 that as well. It's not I mean, it doesn't take 74 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,480 a lot of physical training to master this maneuver. 75 00:05:11,639 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: Anyway. 76 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 2: From Breitbart, it's not clear what their motives were, but 77 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:23,480 one official said that Calledwell, the senior advisor to heg Seth, 78 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:30,120 was leaking information to quote far left reporters to hurt 79 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:35,879 the secretary, And according to the report at the top 80 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,879 of the Hour News, it went to the New York Times. 81 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:43,759 Speaker 1: So I don't know to whom it went. 82 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: Which reporters specifically, but that's another piece of the puzzle here. 83 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,800 It's also not yet clear what the unauthorized disclosures were, 84 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,439 but the Pentagon has been beset by a string of 85 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:57,720 leaks in recent weeks, prompting the Pentagon Chief of Staff 86 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:03,279 Joe Casper, to order an investigation. Casper's order came after 87 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:07,079 The New York Times reported that Elon Musk was planning 88 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,000 to visit the Pentagon, where he would be briefed on 89 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:16,160 quote war plans in a secure conference room called the Tank, 90 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,240 where top defense and military leaders gathered to discuss the 91 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:25,920 department's most pressing issues. While Musk did visit the Pentagon, 92 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:30,759 the meeting took place in Pete Hegseth's office, not in 93 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:36,000 the Tank. Also, the initial report was that he was 94 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,519 going there to learn about war plans against China or something, 95 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,279 and that didn't happen either. However, even before that, there 96 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,920 were leaks of classified information that was only known at 97 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:52,279 the highest levels at the Pentagon. Caledwell was most recently 98 00:06:52,439 --> 00:07:00,600 at an organization called Defense Priorities, and Breitbart identifies Defensethorities 99 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:08,720 as an organization known for advocating foreign policy restraint. He's 100 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:11,360 a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War. He previously 101 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:13,680 worked at the Defense Priorities think tank. 102 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,079 Speaker 1: He played a key role in advising the Pentagon on Ukraine. 103 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,639 And this is who was the senior advisor to heg Seth. 104 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: By the way, heg Seth referenced Caldwell in that that 105 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,160 messaging app you know that got leaked. Also that well, 106 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,920 that one didn't get leaked. They invited the guy, right, 107 00:07:35,959 --> 00:07:40,879 They invited that reporter to the Signal Group chat. And 108 00:07:41,639 --> 00:07:45,839 but heg Seth in that chat said that Caldwell would 109 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:50,199 be the primary contact to coordinate US military strikes on Yemen. 110 00:07:51,879 --> 00:07:53,279 Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's the connection. 111 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: Was it this guy called well that maybe, you know, 112 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,160 maybe got the reporter into the signal chat. 113 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:01,279 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's related. 114 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:07,759 Speaker 2: Selnik, the other guy, the Deputy chief of Staff, also 115 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,079 performed the duties of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel 116 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,439 and Readiness. He served in the White House and the 117 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,800 Department of Veterans Affairs in the first Trump administration. 118 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:17,959 Speaker 1: He also. 119 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: Was a former senior advisor to Concerned Veterans for America, 120 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:30,680 which heg Seth used to lead, but he only had 121 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:35,519 that gig after heg Seth had left the organization. So 122 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,360 those two guys shown the door today while the investigation continues. 123 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,759 Don't know anything other than that, but kind of important. 124 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,639 I feel like if they're you know, they run mole 125 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,720 hunt in the Pentagon as they should be, by the way, 126 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:55,759 as they should be. But there's there's a larger issue 127 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,440 at play, and there's a piece over at the Federalist 128 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,240 dot com. Cynical Publius is his name or Publius. 129 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,519 Speaker 1: I don't know. Publius sounds funnier, but it's a fake name. 130 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 2: Cynical Publius is the nom depoum of a retired US 131 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,000 Army colonel and practicing attorney. 132 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's Kurt Schlichter. 133 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: I don't think it is, because I follow both of 134 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,200 those guys, and Kurt goes by his real name. He's 135 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,879 a retired colonel as well, also a lawyer, so I 136 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:30,799 don't know. But this other account, Cynical Publius, seems to 137 00:09:30,799 --> 00:09:33,919 me to be a different person than Kurt Schlichter, who 138 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,879 I reference pretty regularly because he writes a lot of 139 00:09:36,919 --> 00:09:41,279 fantastic columns over at town hall dot com. Publius Mister 140 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,960 Publius has a piece at the Federalists called fired insubordinate 141 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:53,080 officers reveal massive US military resentment against elected civilian command. 142 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,200 He says, this is a cancer that has been spreading 143 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,360 inside the military for a while. All Right, if you're 144 00:10:01,399 --> 00:10:03,200 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 145 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,960 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 146 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:07,440 you do too, And you've probably heard me say get 147 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,440 your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how 148 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,039 you detect media bias, which is why I've been so 149 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,759 impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a 150 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:20,639 website and it combines news from around the world in 151 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,000 one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. 152 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:27,559 You can check it out at check dot ground, dot 153 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,720 news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast 154 00:10:30,759 --> 00:10:33,759 description too. 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All righty, So, 165 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:09,799 there is a cancer in America's military ranks, and it 166 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:15,440 must be expunged before it's too late. That cancer lies 167 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:21,840 in uniformed service members, widespread rejection of the uniquely American 168 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:27,240 concept of civilian control of the military, and disregard for 169 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:32,720 the absolute necessity that America's military officers remain apolitical in 170 00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:37,600 the face of the constitutional will of the electorate. Again, 171 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,799 this is by a retired colonel and practicing lawyer. 172 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll get it. That's why he practices. He says. 173 00:11:47,879 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 2: Recent events reveal this cancer, and they include the relief 174 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,759 for cause, so you know, relieve of your command of 175 00:11:55,799 --> 00:12:01,039 a Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield after she reportedly refused 176 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,279 to hang photos of President Donald Trump and Secretary of 177 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,360 Defense Pete Hegseeth on her headquarters customary chain of command board. 178 00:12:11,759 --> 00:12:14,799 You've seen this right where they take the photos of 179 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,960 the President and the Secretary of Defense in the whole 180 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,840 chain of command. They got all the photos in like 181 00:12:18,879 --> 00:12:21,840 a triangle or a pyramid, you know, set up on 182 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,279 the wall, and she refused to put Trump and heg 183 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,440 seth on the board and told her subordinates in a 184 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:35,120 town hall that she would quote wait the administration out. 185 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:38,799 She would wait them out for the next four years. 186 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,799 They also include the relief for cause of Colonel Susannah Myers, 187 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,919 the commander of the US Space Forces base in Greenland. 188 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,240 Oh oh, maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland. We have 189 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:59,360 a Space Force base, a space base there, that makes sense. 190 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:06,000 Wait a minute, Susannah Myers. Colonel Myers, you wouldn't even 191 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,480 be in the Space Force, but for Trump, he made 192 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:16,600 space Force so bizarre she openly questioned to all of 193 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:21,720 her subordinates via email. Vice President JD. Vance's official pronouncements 194 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:28,799 regarding the US Grainland and Denmark. Since Trump's inauguration, numerous 195 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:32,840 other senior generals and admirals have been relieved by President 196 00:13:32,919 --> 00:13:38,080 Trump for various publicly unspecified reasons. And he gives a 197 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,120 bunch of the others that have been relieved or fired 198 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,519 or whatever, and he notes that a president firing his 199 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,240 senior generals is not a new thing. He then lists 200 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,519 a whole bunch of them throughout history. He points out. 201 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,679 I am a retired US Army colonel. My service record 202 00:13:55,759 --> 00:13:58,919 runs a typical gamut for an old colonel, with tours 203 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,840 in tactical unit, including service in Afghanistan and Iraq, interspersed 204 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:09,559 with service at high level military headquarters in and around Washington, DC. Nowadays, 205 00:14:09,879 --> 00:14:12,759 I run an account on Twitter formerly known as x 206 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:16,360 with a little more than two hundred thousand followers. I 207 00:14:16,399 --> 00:14:19,519 offer commentary on political and social issues, with a particular 208 00:14:19,559 --> 00:14:23,399 emphasis on the military. As a result, I have many 209 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,639 military followers, including some still on active duty. I offer 210 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:33,720 active duty service members a conduit to anonymously share disturbing 211 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,840 military trends. And since Trump's inauguration, I have been flooded 212 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:46,159 with reports of insubordination in the ranks towards Trump and Hegseth. 213 00:14:46,639 --> 00:14:50,159 Those reports ranged from fairly senior officers in the Pentagon 214 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:54,879 showing open disrespect around the e ring coffeemaker, all the 215 00:14:54,919 --> 00:14:59,320 way down to junior enlisted disrespecting their president and Secretary 216 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,039 of Defense in the ship's galley or the chow hal 217 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:05,159 And then he goes on to talk about he gives 218 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,279 some examples, and then he goes on to talk about, 219 00:15:08,039 --> 00:15:10,600 you know, we have our structure, as a commander in 220 00:15:10,639 --> 00:15:14,039 chief is a civilian, and that has been a sacred 221 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:21,000 premise guiding our military for enlisted end officers alike. And 222 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,679 he would never in his career, he says, it was 223 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:34,159 a rare thing to ever hear anybody's political thoughts. Ever, 224 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,159 he says, I recall early in my career, senior officers 225 00:15:38,159 --> 00:15:43,279 advised me not to vote in elections because doing so 226 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,559 might suggest that I was a political partisan. 227 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:51,039 Speaker 1: So he would he wouldn't vote. 228 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,159 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's great advice. Same thing in 229 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,960 the in the reporter world as well. 230 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:57,559 Speaker 1: Journalists. 231 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,879 Speaker 2: Some journalists don't vote because they say, you know, they 232 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,519 need to be removed from the process so nobody can 233 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:10,919 accuse them of bias. And there's disagreement among reporters about 234 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,879 whether you should or shouldn't, whether all reporters should or shouldn't. 235 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:18,279 I don't believe you should not. I if you want 236 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:20,360 to go vote, go vote. I have no problem with 237 00:16:20,399 --> 00:16:24,679 anybody going to vote, military or journalists. He goes on 238 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,639 to say, though, that the trends we are seeing feel 239 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,480 dangerously close to an embrace of nineteen seventies South American 240 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,240 style military juntas. 241 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: Or junta. If you will. 242 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,759 Speaker 2: Think about General Mark Milly, remember that guy telling China 243 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:47,159 that he would warn them about US military activity. Or 244 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,840 how about Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vinman using his position on 245 00:16:51,879 --> 00:16:55,840 the National Security Council as a springboard for impeaching a 246 00:16:55,879 --> 00:16:58,519 president because he did not like the way that president 247 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,679 was lawfully discharging his duties. These are not the marks 248 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,319 of a Yeah, these are not the marks of healthy 249 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,920 civilian control of the military, says, They are instead marks 250 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:17,759 of a military approaching the rationalization of a coup. Recognize 251 00:17:17,799 --> 00:17:20,880 where we are. Here's a great idea. How about making 252 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,960 an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in 253 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,720 western North Carolina. 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So over at the 274 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,839 Federalist dot com and a piece by Cynical Publius that 275 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,440 is a fake name of a retired US Army colonel 276 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,920 and a practicing attorney. 277 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,319 Speaker 1: He's got a very large following on Twitter. 278 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 2: I have followed him for a while, and because he 279 00:18:49,519 --> 00:18:52,839 does a lot of stuff on military matters, he gets 280 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,400 a lot of feedback from people inside the military, and 281 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:02,720 he's saying that he's getting flooded with reports of insubordination 282 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:10,319 in the ranks towards Trump and Pete. Hegseath not that 283 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:13,559 people are disrespecting Trump and hexath to this s guy, 284 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:16,519 but he's getting the reports like, oh my gosh, this 285 00:19:16,559 --> 00:19:20,000 thing happened, and he's getting all of these accounts and 286 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,799 a lot of it is just based on rumors. And 287 00:19:24,079 --> 00:19:28,480 you know, that's spread like crazy, like an HOA Facebook group. No, 288 00:19:28,519 --> 00:19:33,000 I'm kidding, Although it does the HOA really does. It 289 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:36,039 really does emulate a lot of a lot of other 290 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,240 areas of our society. Anyway, he says, the trends we 291 00:19:39,279 --> 00:19:42,200 are seeing feel dangerously close to the embrace of the 292 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:48,799 you know, South American military juntas, okay, and that these examples, 293 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:53,039 and he gave a bunch of examples, Mark Milly, Alexander Vinman. 294 00:19:53,599 --> 00:19:56,839 He said, these are marks of a military approaching the 295 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,000 rationalization of a coup. I attribute the breakdown quite directly, 296 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:09,119 he says, too, DEI policies and practices. Before you roll 297 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,440 your eyes, oh it's DEI that's the blame for everything. 298 00:20:12,839 --> 00:20:15,400 He says, I want to be clear, I do not 299 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:20,240 mean that the advancement of officers for DEI reasons is 300 00:20:20,279 --> 00:20:20,799 the cause. 301 00:20:20,839 --> 00:20:21,839 Speaker 1: That's not what he's saying. 302 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 2: He's not saying that, you know, people got elevated based 303 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,640 on characteristics that were not important or whatever. He's not 304 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:35,400 making that argument. He's talking about the implanting of the 305 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:44,640 DEI policies as a core ethos of military service. And 306 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:49,519 because by doing that, it now warps the way people 307 00:20:49,599 --> 00:20:53,279 in the organization think. And I've been saying this for years, 308 00:20:53,599 --> 00:20:56,319 which is like with this anti racism stuff, whether it's 309 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,359 you know, CRT, or it's DEI or Social Emotional learning, 310 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,720 like all of these you know, neo Marxist ideologies that 311 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,799 get smuggled in via these programs. They are a cancer 312 00:21:09,839 --> 00:21:14,319 inside of your organization. Right if you bring in Robin DiAngelo, 313 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,799 you know, the white fragility author, you bring her in 314 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,559 to talk to the group, and you run through a 315 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:25,920 couple of you know, privileged walk exercises and such, does 316 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,599 your organization become less racist? 317 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:30,279 Speaker 1: No? 318 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 2: And in fact, Harvard University itself, in its research, found 319 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:40,119 that the impact of these types of trainings make your 320 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:48,640 employees now more willing and able and interested in looking 321 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,799 for all of the racializing of every issue. It makes 322 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:58,319 the workplace worse, not better. And so when you you know, 323 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,079 when you smuggle this stuff into the millit terry, it's 324 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,480 not a surprise that it has a detrimental effect. Our 325 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:08,920 military has always been driven by core values, he says, 326 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,720 like don't give up the ship, duty, honor country, and 327 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:20,359 always faithful. And traditionally those values have been a political right, nonpartisan, 328 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,880 and solely revolved around the military's fundamental mission of defeating 329 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:30,920 America's battlefield enemies. That's it, right, you win, you go 330 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:36,880 to war, you win, that's the ethos. Somewhere in these 331 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,359 early years of the twenty first century, however, DEI also 332 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:46,039 became a central ethos. They embrace so called diversity for 333 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:51,839 diversity's sake, and the DEI policies became a core ethos 334 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,720 of America's military, a new warrior ethos grounded not in 335 00:22:56,839 --> 00:23:02,599 war fighting, but in a purely political and public doctrine. So, 336 00:23:02,759 --> 00:23:05,039 on the one hand, you have a president that's been 337 00:23:05,079 --> 00:23:10,640 elected to purge that political doctrine of DEI from America's government, 338 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,440 And on the other hand, you have a generation of 339 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,480 senior generals and admirals who mistakenly view DEI as an 340 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:23,960 a political military ethos. Do you understand what he's saying. 341 00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:28,640 I think he's got it right here. So when Trump 342 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:34,000 seeks to exercise his constitutional powers to purge a purely 343 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:38,880 political doctrine right, the generals and the admirals mistakenly see 344 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,720 it as an effort to purge a fundamental essential and 345 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:47,160 a political military ethos that gives them license to feel 346 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:52,880 justified in resistance, to resisting the lawful orders of their 347 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,759 commander in chief and engaging in insubordination because they falsely 348 00:23:57,799 --> 00:24:01,359 imagine they are protecting a core con competency of our 349 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:08,400 nation's defense. Now, the good news is that we can 350 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,079 fix this, and he says it's not very hard in 351 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,279 the military. It just requires some guts by Trump and 352 00:24:16,319 --> 00:24:19,400 heg Seth and the military department secretaries in the face 353 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,680 of a media determined to discredit their every move. There 354 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,759 are two parts to fixing it. Number one education and 355 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,079 number two example setting. All right, So spring is here 356 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,240 a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, 357 00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:39,799 and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's 358 00:24:39,839 --> 00:24:41,799 making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But 359 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,960 let me ask you are all of those treasured moments 360 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,400 from days gone by? Are they hidden away on old 361 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:52,480 VCR tapes, eight millimeter films, photos slides? 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We got that wacko judge 375 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:44,359 boasperg Bosburg, Boasburg whatever. 376 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: Issuing an order. 377 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 2: The court determines that the government actions on that day 378 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,440 by refusing to turn that plane around, even though the 379 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,440 judge had no idea if there was enough fuel on 380 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,759 the plane to actually do that, in it demonstrate a 381 00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:04,359 willful disregard for its order sufficient for the court to 382 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,680 conclude that probable cause exists to find the government in 383 00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:08,680 criminal contempt. 384 00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:14,759 Speaker 1: The whole government. The whole government is in criminal contempt. 385 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:17,400 This guy's out of control. 386 00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:23,759 Speaker 2: And Thomas Crown, who is also an attorney, points out 387 00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:25,519 that the US marshals are going to have a heck 388 00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:28,240 of a time arresting Trump and hauling him in front 389 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:32,279 of the judge because the US Marshal's boss. 390 00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: I think it's Trump, So I don't know if. 391 00:26:39,799 --> 00:26:41,799 Speaker 2: They're gonna have to get through Secret Service first, I 392 00:26:41,839 --> 00:26:42,799 suspect I don't know. 393 00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:44,839 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, So that's a mess. 394 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:55,519 Speaker 2: Also, Maryland court documents reveal that deported Salvadoran national illegal 395 00:26:55,559 --> 00:27:01,279 immigrant Kilmar Abrago Garcia's wife, a woman by the name 396 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:07,799 of Jennifer Vasquez. This is the Maryland dad, right, the 397 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:13,599 guy Chris van Holland, the US Senator from Connecticut or something, 398 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:15,640 I don't remember where, maybe Jersey, whatever. 399 00:27:16,319 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: He's in El Salvador. 400 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,759 Speaker 2: He's flying down to El Salvador to try to I guess, 401 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,240 release an illegal alien and bring him back into the 402 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,960 country illegally, who was already ordered deported. I went over 403 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,839 this yesterday or day before. It turns out that this guy, 404 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:39,559 Kilmar al Brago Garcia, his wife had petitioned the court 405 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:46,680 for an order of protection domestic violence protection order against him, 406 00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:54,160 not once, but twice. Just a Maryland dad, not an 407 00:27:54,279 --> 00:27:58,000 MS thirteen gang banger. Although he said that if he 408 00:27:58,039 --> 00:28:00,720 went back to El Salvador that his life would be 409 00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:03,680 in jeopardy because a rival gang would want him whacked. 410 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,680 But even though El Salvadores like cracked down on all 411 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,279 of the gangs and cleaned up their country over the 412 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,039 last five years. Anyway, Yeah, the Maryland dad who was 413 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,240 ordered to be deported, the government just messed up and 414 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,519 deported him to the one country that a judge had said, 415 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,839 don't send him back there, which was l Salvador, because 416 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,640 that's where he's from, that's his home country. So he's 417 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,039 sitting in a prison now in El Salvador, his home country. 418 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,359 He is a citizen of El Salvador. But because the 419 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,759 judge I said, yes, you can deport him, just don't 420 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,079 send him to El Salvador, and the government threw him 421 00:28:39,079 --> 00:28:41,680 on a plane with you know, two hundred other gang 422 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,680 bangers and foreign terrorists as designated by you know, the 423 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:49,759 Foreign Terrorist Organization, calling the gangs and cartels terrorist organizations. 424 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,960 Opens these doors for new types of punishments and stuff 425 00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:59,480 and actions by the US government. And so they threw 426 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:01,240 him on a plane and sent him to El Salvador. 427 00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:04,640 That was the mistake. So just can we wire El 428 00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:08,359 Salvador like I don't know, one hundred bucks and say 429 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,359 give the guy a bus ticket and send him over 430 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,640 into your neighboring country and then then done, then everybody's 431 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,640 everybody's compliant. Now, well, I mean accept a Brago Garcia 432 00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:24,160 who would now be in another country illegally. But he 433 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,400 didn't have any problem doing that. Obviously he was in 434 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,279 our country for a long time illegally. So anyway, those 435 00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:36,039 are two developments from the Federalist piece about the military 436 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,640 and the lack of focus, the loss of focus I 437 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:46,759 should say on its traditional ethos and its adoption of 438 00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:52,119 this DEI these policies as part of their ethos as well. 439 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,720 He says, you can fix this problem number one by education, right, 440 00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:59,720 you got to reinvigorate training in every service and did 441 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:03,480 every every level regarding the military's duty of loyalty to 442 00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:10,160 elected civilian leaders and their lawful orders. Make a standard curriculum. 443 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:18,119 Put it into every branch, everywhere. Example setting is the 444 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,680 second thing. It'll mean more of what we have already seen, 445 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,640 the relieving of officers, the relieving of kicking people out. Yes, 446 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,799 with the relief for cause of senior officers for insuborted behavior. 447 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,319 So yes, more of that. But that's not enough what 448 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:43,359 he advocates here Article eighty eight Court martials. 449 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: Why this is what? 450 00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 2: Article eighty eight of the Uniform Code of Military Justice states, 451 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:55,559 any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, 452 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:59,680 the Vice president, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, secretary of 453 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,359 a miililitary department, the Secretary of Homeland Security Pete Callaner, 454 00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:06,119 or the governor or. 455 00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't say my name, but it should. It totally 456 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,440 no okay. 457 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 2: Legislature of any state, commonwealth, or possession in which he 458 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,839 is on duty or present, shall be punished as a 459 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,279 court martial may direct. This is under a section called 460 00:31:21,359 --> 00:31:25,400 contempt toward officials like you're literally not allowed to do this. 461 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:31,000 It says it right there in your UCMJ. Article eighty 462 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,359 eight and he says it's a tool by which senior 463 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:41,359 insubordinate officers must be made. An example, I don't think 464 00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:45,000 you're going to see generals or admirals breaking rocks at Leavenworth. 465 00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:48,440 The mere act of initiating just a couple of well 466 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:53,319 publicized court martial proceedings will drive home the message that 467 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,880 politics is the domain of the president, not the oath 468 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,480 bearing members of the uniformed services. Good order and discipline 469 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:05,759 must be restored. There is a cancer in the ranks 470 00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:09,839 of America's military, and it must be expunged before. 471 00:32:09,599 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: It is too late. 472 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 2: Also, Gary Shapley, remember that guy. The Wall Street Journal 473 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:25,799 calls him an IRS critic, but he's a whistleblower. They 474 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:29,319 did change the headline. They started off by saying Trump 475 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:34,240 picks IRS critic as agencies acting leader, and then they 476 00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:38,160 changed it to Trump picks investigator behind Hunter Biden tax 477 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,200 case as IRS acting leader. And then they write the 478 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,480 story President Trump named Gary Shapley, the IRS criminal investigator 479 00:32:46,519 --> 00:32:49,519 who criticized the government for its handling of Hunter Biden's 480 00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:54,960 tax filings, as the Tax agency's acting commissioner. He's a 481 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,680 whistle blower. Okay, he's a whistle blow. There is a 482 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:03,640 word for this. It's called whistleblower, not critic. Yes, he 483 00:33:03,759 --> 00:33:07,000 was an investigator, but he was a whistle blower. Shapley 484 00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:09,599 is the Internal Revenue Service's fourth leader in less than 485 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,279 four months, as the Trump administration rapidly shrinks the agency. 486 00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,920 During the Biden administration, Shapley rose to prominence as an 487 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:22,000 IRS supervisory criminal agent who came forward to Congress, hence 488 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,119 the whistleblower designation, and contended that the Justice Department had 489 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,920 slow walked its tax investigation into Hunter Biden. Yes, and 490 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:38,240 then it engaged in retribution against him for blowing the 491 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,079 whistle in a classic case of whistleblower retribution. Now the 492 00:33:43,079 --> 00:33:46,079 AP credit where it's due. The Associated Press got it right. 493 00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:51,319 An IRS whistleblower, they call him right out of the gate. 494 00:33:53,519 --> 00:33:56,880 And now the Tax Collection Agency is planning to name 495 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,599 Shapley to one of the highest ranking roles at the agency. 496 00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:03,799 It's sort of like the Tulsy Gabbard trajectory. Right, you 497 00:34:03,839 --> 00:34:07,240 get put on the no fly list, then fast forward 498 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:08,920 a couple of years and you're in charge of the 499 00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:10,320 entire intelligence community. 500 00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: Had that worked out for you lefties? All right? That'll 501 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,880 do it. For this episode. 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