This is Scary: An Alarm has been Issued. (Pass it on)

[David Morris]

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2021/01/03/someone-in-the-pentagon-got-a-message-out-all-10-living-former-secretaries-of-defense-issue-a-warning/

“Earlier this evening The Washington Post published a letter
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html#click=https://t.co/HHmXL79Z0P>,
as an op-ed, from all ten living former Secretaries of Defense, warning
about the importance of keeping the US military out of any involvement with
deciding the outcome of elections, specifically the 2020 election. There is
no way this letter is put together and then pushed for publication unless
someone senior, most likely either senior uniformed personnel (general
officers/flag officers) and/or senior executive service personnel at the
Department of Defense or one of the Services unless someone got a message
out to one or more of their former bosses. Someone is very worried that the
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Mille […] is up to something
dangerous:”

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As former secretaries of defense, we hold a common view of the solemn
obligations of the U.S. armed forces and the Defense Department. Each of us
swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies,
foreign and domestic. We did not swear it to an individual or a party.

American elections and the peaceful transfers of power that result are
hallmarks of our democracy. This year should be no exception.

Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted.
Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have
certified the results. And the electoral college has voted. The time for
questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the
electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has
arrived.

As senior Defense Department leaders have noted
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-election-nears-pentagon-leaders-goal-of-staying-out-of-elections-is-tested/2020/10/14/cbf20c6a-0e2a-11eb-bfcf-b1893e2c51b4_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_8>,
“there’s no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of a U.S.
election.” Efforts to involve the U.S. armed forces in resolving election
disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional
territory. Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such
measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal
penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.