New Pentagon Chief Will Strip Gen. Mark Milley Of Security Detail, Clearance

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Source: Huff Post

Jan 28, 2025, 11:15 PM EST | Updated 4 hours ago


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday informed retired Gen. Mark Milley that he is pulling his security detail and revoking his security clearance, the Pentagon has confirmed.

Those plans — the latest act of political retribution against those deemed enemies of President Donald Trump — will include an inspector general inquiry into Milley’s work “so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination,” John Ullyot, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, said in a statement.

The plan was first reported by Fox News. The Washington Post added that probe stems from a desire to “take a star” from Milley, meaning he would be demoted in retirement. “The ghost of General Milley shouldn’t haunt the Pentagon anymore, nor should it haunt the armed forces,” an unnamed senior defense official told the Post. “This is all about accountability for General Milley.”

Milley has had security protection since Iran vowed retribution after the U.S. assassinated one of the country’s top generals, Qassem Soleimani, during Trump’s first term. Fox News added that the Pentagon will soon remove a second portrait of Milley from inside the building as soon as Tuesday night. Another portrait was removed last week within hours of Trump’s inauguration.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-mark-milley-security_n_6799a0b9e4b01949837ee5f1

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They have now become cartoon villains except that this is "real".

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Gen. Milley is a patriot, loyal to the Constitution.

Trump is a traitor, afraid of the truth.

[ancianita]

11. Milley knows Lloyd Austin, Biden, Jake Sullivan, former CIA head Will Burns, Obama & Clinton have his back.

Milley is military, and will be able to form his own security detail. He won't be made an example (of what, cheap vengeance?) to anyone except the CF's loyalists. No one else who knows recent history under Biden buys this BS.

[GusBob]

2. My cousin, a lifelong Military member served under him

I forget my cousin's rank but he is an officer.
At the deer camp last Fall, his other cousins were talking politics. Trumpers all of them, non military. He sat quiet for days.
Finally unable to hold his tongue, he unloaded forcefully not angrily, but with bitterness how Trump treated his friend and brother in arms. The assembled crew had to mark his words and did out of respect

[70sEraVet]

3. They want to make an example of Milley

If you choose loyalty to Country over loyalty to Trump........

[Harker]

4. Hegseth moves quickly to demonstrate his fealty to odious Trumpsky.

The people conducting this vindictive campaign of endangerment appear to be doing so with no concern that they may be on the receiving end. They don't plan on relinquishing power.

That Hegseth is in a position to demote General Milley turns my stomach.

[KewlKat]

5. Yet lying Flynn kept all his stars...

[CrispyQ]

6. What a fucking insult to Miley, the whole thing for sure, but to be told by a Fox news host. Damn.

Or maybe Pete sent him a note, like Trump frequently did. Still.

I hoped the military might save us from the fascists. In Trump's first term I read a commentary by someone who felt that military leadership was mostly aligned with the Constitution not Trump, but the enlisted class had a lot of trumpers. ??? I don't recall who wrote it & wondered at the time if that was true & wonder even more, now.

[hadEnuf]

7. Milley was a good man and probably saved this country from Trump's insanity at the end of his last term.

This treatment of career military like Milley by Capt. Bone spurs the draft-dodger and the drunken rapist is beyond disgusting.

[Norrrm]

8. Have you ever worked with the new SECDEF? ... He brought me coffee once.

Hegseth is a pipsqueak and his only qualification is that he is a kissass sycophant.

[shotten99]

9. Hegseth is a DUI Hire

He couldn’t get a clearance if his life depended on it.

[ananda]

10. This is because Trump wants a war, even with nukes.

Milley was the one stopping him last time.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Team Trump's revenge tour now includes retired Gen. Mark Milley

On the one hand, Team Trump is launching legally dubious power grabs and wreaking havoc. On the other hand, these guys have no idea what they’re doing.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lgvgdd2bus2y

For a while, Trump was content to go after retired Gen. Mark Milley with juvenile taunts and name-calling.

As Team Trump pulls Milley's security clearance and targets his rank, it's vastly worse now.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trumps-revenge-tour-now-includes-retired-gen-mark-milley-rcna189793

Within hours of his presidential inauguration, Trump complained publicly about the pardon his former handpicked chairman of the joint chiefs of staff received. Soon after, the White House directed the Pentagon to take down a portrait of Milley. The next morning, the Republican president fired Milley from an advisory panel.

Each of those steps were, of course, petty and largely inconsequential. They left little doubt that the retired general was on Trump’s mind, but the moves did little more than make the president look small.

They were, however, just the initial steps from Team Trump. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley that he is revoking his security detail and clearance and ordering a review of the retired general’s conduct to see whether his rank should be re-evaluated, the Pentagon said. Hegseth, whose first day at the Pentagon was Monday, directed the Defense Department’s inspector general to look into ‘the facts and circumstances’ surrounding Milley’s conduct ‘so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination,’ Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said.

For good measure, according to multiple published reports, the Pentagon is also taking down a different Milley portrait, recognizing him as a former chief of staff of the Army.

Link to tweet

.....Obviously, the retired general has become the latest target in Team Trump’s post-inaugural revenge tour, but just as notable is the broader message to everyone else: If you anger the president, you too may find yourself facing the kind of fury that Milley is facing now.

In the run-up to the 2024 elections, the former chairman of the joint chiefs reportedly told Bob Woodward that he believes Trump is “a fascist to the core.” That assessment appears unlikely to change anytime soon.