The retired general Mark Milley, who served as president of the Joint personnel chiefs in the administrations of Trump and Biden, has had its security details and its revocated security authorization, says the Pentagon.
The new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, “informed General Milley today that he is revoking authorization for his security details and also suspending his security authorization,” said Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot to CBS News in a statement on Tuesday by The night.
Ullyot said that Hegseth “also directed” the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense that “conducts an investigation into the facts and circumstances that surround the conduct of General Milley so that the secretary can determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his determination for grade review military”.
The Inspector General of the Interim Department of Defense Stephen Stebbins received a request to check if Milley, a four -star general, should be stripped of a star, told CBS News, a spokesman for the Pentagon Inspector General’s office. Stebbins is reviewing the application.
Trump nominated Milley to lead the joint bosses during his first mandate, a Milley post occupied a complete period of four years from 2019 to 2023.
Mr. Trump and Milley, however, had a public fall in the last months of Trump’s first mandate on several incidents, starting with an apology that Milley issued for participating, while he was dressed in fatigue, in the Photo op In front of the Church of San Juan in June 2020 after federal officers eliminated the social justice protesters of Lafayette Park so that Trump could walk the church from the White House.
A book published in September 2021 He revealed that Milley had also participated in two telephone calls: one on October 30, 2020 and the second in January 8, 2021Two days after the insurrection of the Capitol, with Chinese General Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army to assure him that the United States would not launch an attack against China and that the United States was stable.
At the time of revelation, Trump said Milley should be tried for “betrayal.” So in a shocking 2023 Publication of Social NetworksMr. Trump suggested that the calls constituted a “traitorous act” that could justify the execution.
In a October 2023 interview With “60 minutes,” Milley said that the calls were “an example of decallation. So, there were clear indications, that the Chinese were very concerned about what they were observing, here in the United States.”
According to another 2021 book, Milley feared Mr. Trump I would try a blow After losing the 2020 elections and made preparations in case said plan had been carried out.
On January 20, when he left the position, former President Joe Biden forgiven prevently Milley along with others that he thought could be attacked by the Trump administration.
In a statement on Tuesday, Joe Kasper, head of personnel of the Department of Defense, told CBS News that “undermining the chain of command is corrosive for our national security, and restoring responsibility is a priority for the Department of Defense under leadership of President Trump “.
The Trump administration has also revoked the Federal Security Details Trump’s former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, former Trump National Security Advisor, John Bolton, former Trump’s special envoy about Iran Brian Hook and Dr. Anthony FauciFormer director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
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