Re: inaccuracy of WP's & Woodward/Costa's framing of Milley call as "secret":

[tblue37]

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Ah, so if this is the case, the Washington Post presenting them as “secret phone calls” is just wildly misleading sensationalism.I

Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
I am told this is not true. There were 15 people on the video teleconference calls, including a representative of the State Dept and the read out and notes from Milley’s two calls with his Chinese counterpart were shared with the IC and the Interagency.

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Sep 15, 2021
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does this make it sound like a fifteen person video conference call including a representative of the state dept?

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Top general was so fearful Trump might spark war with China that he made secret calls to his counterpart in Beijing, new book says https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/14/peril-woodward-costa-trump-milley-china/

southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Not a great morning for the Bobs, Woodward and Costa, or their employer.

Axios
@axios
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Esper directed his policy office to issue a backchannel message to the Chinese to reassure them the U.S. had no intention of seeking a military confrontation. https://axios.com/mark-milley-woodward-trump-crisis-bb8a80b1-3e3a-492b-934a-99825cc6ef7f.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=politics-markmilley

[msongs]

1. woodward oughta work for the national enquirer these days nt

[Lovie777]

2. So this is false . ..

go figure.

[Strelnikov_]

7. Secret to the orange one and his cabal

But not 'secret' as the media is framing it, as in Milley doing it on his own.

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Also explains how Woodward found out.

Note to Woodward, if there are witnesses and a transcript, it is not 'secret'.

[former9thward]

8. Of course it is secret.

There are "witnesses" to every international conversation between U.S. government officials and someone in a foreign country. That is SOP. But it is Classified. Which means secret.

[BlueIdaho]

3. What?

The M$M distorting facts to gain viewership? Tell me it ain’t so Joe, tell me it ain’t so!

[inwiththenew]

4. Somebody is not telling the truth

I've seen several different accounts of what happened.

[elleng]

5. MIGHT be useful if we/the public had the whole book, eh?

Or shall we all jump off come cliff/

[Hortensis]

10. Yes! Never just swallow media interpretations. I'm actually sure

that if Woodward and Costa referred to them as "secret" they were effectively secret in the contex they were describing, such as processed to keep it secret from tRump and his untrustworthy circle, and perhaps not documented in the usual way.

Neither are sloppy with words like that.

[elleng]

11. Thanks

[Baked Potato]

6. D'Oh !! nt

[former9thward]

9. The tweets in the OP are misleading and dishonest.

The phone call was Classified. Which means secret. It matters not that several or many people had access to it. It is still secret.

[Xoan]

12. +1

Thank you

[MyOwnPeace]

13. 'Secret to Trump?'

Yeah, if it wasn't on "Faux & Friends" - he didn't know about it -unless Hannity called it in later!