Task & Purpose: The Pentagon is terrified of talking to reporters again
With each passing day, it increasingly looks as if Pentagon officials are trying to hide from the press until the presidential election is over.
We seem to be back to the bad old days when then-Defense Secretary James Mattis’ relationship with President Donald Trump became so strained that Mattis and other top Pentagon leaders were wary of saying anything at all to avoid antagonizing the president.
Now current Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who publicly broke with Trump in June about the need to use active-duty troops in response to protests and riots across the country, is also reportedly at odds with the president. And it appears that Esper wants to fly under the radar as long as possible.
The most recent manifestation of the Pentagon’s renewed phobia of providing the general public with basic information came on Aug. 31 when a top defense official briefed only a handful of reporters on the Pentagon’s latest report on Chinese military power.
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WNU Editor: Considering the poisonous political environment right now, who would blame them. But I say forget about the Pentagon not giving a press conference. When can we have Presidential candidate Joe Biden giving a real press conference with reporters that are not handpicked by his campaign staff.
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"When can we have Presidential candidate Joe Biden giving a real press conference with reporters that are not handpicked by his campaign staff?"
Did Candide walk from the pages of the play into real life?
This is the new normal. Hillary was fed debate questions before the debates with Bernie in 2016
Donna Brazile finally admits she shared debate questions with Clinton campaign
It is normal, right, and meet that a Democrat operative posing as a journalist would treat a Democrat candidate with kid gloves. To suggest otherwise is poor manners and might get you a visit from the Red Guards soon. It is the Democrat way.
I don't think it's politics
I think it's more that they are not quite prepared yet in answering the question of:
Are we at war with China?
What will we do about it?
How will we enforce reparations in the tens of trillions?
All good questions
I'd also revisit nuclear first strike policy questions. It'd be good to let China know where we stand on things, you know, after decades of organised theft, broken promise and now mass murder (while at the same time they have forced sterilisation programs and concentration camps over there, in the soon enemy-of-the-world area/radiated region formerly known as China)
;)
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