Sens. Hawley and Blackburn Slam Milley and the Rest Over Book and Media Interviews
During the sometimes explosive Senate hearings on Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) went after General Milley and the others for caring more about interviews in books and media than the disaster brewing under their noses in Afghanistan.
Marsha Blackburn called out Milley for politicizing the military.
From Reuters:
In one exchange on Tuesday, Milley acknowledged also speaking with two other sets of book authors. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn lashed out at him.”In order to get your name in a book… all you have managed to do is to politicize the U.S. military, to downgrade our reputation with our allies,” Blackburn said.
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Josh Hawley had similar criticisms and ultimately called on Milley to resign.
From McClatchy News:
Hawley claims General Milley cares more about D.C. press than AfghanistanMissouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday suggested that Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cared more about his image among the Washington D.C. press than the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and once again called for his resignation.“It seems to me that you put a high priority on making sure you were highly favorably portrayed by the D.C. press corps,” Hawley said during a meeting of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. “Fair enough if that’s your priority, but at the same time, we had a rapidly deteriorating, frankly disastrous situation in Afghanistan.”The book “Peril” by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa first reported that Milley asked the military to warn him if Trump ordered the launch of nuclear weapons.That report sparked Hawley’s first call that Milley should resign.
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Hawley is correct. Milley should resign and so should Lloyd Austin.
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