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2024-11-28 Government Corruption
Alexander Vindman Has 'Committed Treason' and 'Will Pay'
[Breitbart] Elon Musk, co-head of President-Elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, told Alexander Vindman, who sparked the first impeachment of Trump, that he “committed treason” and “will pay,” after Vindman accused him of being controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin and a “national security threat.”

Vindman smeared Musk during an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday, saying:

Clearly, Putin has a type. He likes narcissists and egomaniacs that he knows as a case officer he could easily pander to and manipulate to do his dirty work. We are under attack. Russia has been using different levers, whether that’s corruption networks. In this case, it’s it’s influencers like Donald Trump, like Elon Musk, to really kind of sow discord, and it’s particularly troubling with Elon Musk in this case, because Elon Musk has access to state secrets. He has top secret security clearance. It’s possible that some of that is seeping through. Putin has been very effective in playing both Trump and Elon, and he’s been using the richest man in the world to do his bidding in this. In some cases, that’s encouraging him probably to support Donald Trump. That’s not speculation. We see how far in Elon is gone, and then using Twitter as a distance disinformation platform. So this is not some sort of far off distant threat, this is a, it’s going to impact our elections, it’s a national security threat.

Musk responded Wednesday, “Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty.”
I’m not sure about treason, always a difficult charge, but the man absolutely is guilty of gross insubordination as a military officer. I vote for a fair court martial, followed by reduction in rank and a dishonourable discharge. Any jail term deemed appropriate by the court would not go amiss, but may be overkill — I know nothing about such things.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-28 04:11|| || Front Page|| [11150 views ]  Top

#1 Article 92 outlaws disobeying a lawful order.
The maximum punishment is a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and up to six months in confinement
Posted by Rambler 2024-11-28 10:48||   2024-11-28 10:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Is he registered as a foreign agent?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-11-28 12:32||   2024-11-28 12:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Elon is trying to bait him into a lawsuit.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-11-28 15:19||   2024-11-28 15:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of you fuckheads are too anti-Ukrainian for my taste. I don't get it. I hope COVID comes back in spades.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert 2024-11-28 20:24||   2024-11-28 20:24|| Front Page Top

#5 That’s why we cover both the Russian perspective AND the Ukrainian perspective, Penguin dear.

But the issue of Lt. Col. Vindman, Ret’d is that he had no business listening in on a phone call between the president and another head of state, and he definitely had no business tattling his disagreement with the content of that conversation where it would do the most harm, just because of personal spite — his and others. His job was ever only advice, not consent. He is emblematic of an entire class of federal bureaucrats who mistake themselves for rulers instead of servant. That the triggering event involved Ukraine is incidental to the affair.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-28 21:44||   2024-11-28 21:44|| Front Page Top

#6 well put, TW
Posted by 746 2024-11-28 22:00||   2024-11-28 22:00|| Front Page Top

#7 *blush* Thank you, kind sir.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-28 22:32||   2024-11-28 22:32|| Front Page Top

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