Thursday, April 4, 2019

Top U.S. Marine General Leaked Emails To The Press That Questions President Trump's Border Plan

US Marine Corps commandant Robert Neller. US Marine Corps/Cpl. Shawn Valosin

Newsweek: Top Marine General Let Emails Leak Amid Border Funding Fight so Service Families Would Not Be Forgotten: Sources

The Marines’ top general allowed internal memos to leak out of the Pentagon to bring attention to service families living among hurricane-ravaged military installations as the Trump administration tries to bankroll the southwest border with defense funds at the expense of combat readiness.

General Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, let two internal Defense Department memorandums leak to The Los Angeles Times and NBC News in the past two weeks, two Pentagon sources, who asked not to be named due to U.S. military media regulations, told Newsweek.

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Update: Marine Corps general reportedly leaked a sensitive memo questioning Trump's border plan (Business Insider).

WNU Editor: General Robert Neller is one of President Obama's last appointed generals who will be retiring later this year. I will not be surprised if he will be asked to retire early.

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