Joint chiefs not briefed before Trump went public with trans military ban

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Blade

The joint military service chiefs were not briefed on the recommendations by Defense Secretary James Mattis against the transgender military ban or the Trump memo seeking to implement them before the White House went public with them last Friday, according to two sources familiar with the process.

One source said the top uniformed officials at the Pentagon had to download the documents online just like the rest of the public late on March 23 to obtain them for the first time.

Maj. Carla Gleason, a Pentagon spokesperson, wouldn’t deny the joint chiefs weren’t briefed on the recommendation before it went public, but said their representatives were on the panel of experts that advised Mattis on transgender service before he made his recommendation.

“Recommendations and conversations between the secretary and the president are private, however, each service was represented on the panel of experts,” Gleason said.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/03/30/joint-chiefs-not-briefed-trump-went-public-trans-military-ban/

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Outrageous.

Thanks to Maggie Haberman for tweeting about this:

Link to tweet

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

1. Again?

I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose.

[TomSlick]

2. Why would he brief the Joint Chiefs?

They would advise against the ban and he would do it anyway.

[iluvtennis]

3. Like he thinks he is above the law, Don the Con thinks he is above pre-existing protocols of decorum

[Achilleaze]

4. Shut up Generals, and salute the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

Shameful republican chickenhawks once again diss America's honorable military.

Deplorable.

[atreides1]

6. Mattis could have informed the Joint Chiefs!

But Mattis, like Kelly is a fucking joke and nothing more then another crotch sniffing sycophant! I'd be ashamed to say that either man had served in the USMC, if I had been a Marine!

I am a US Army Veteran and I was ashamed when Powell did his little vial of powder trick at the UN and got this country into a war based on lies and wishful thinking!!!

[malthaussen]

5. Look, he rules by the Jean-Luc Picard method...

... he waves his hand and says "Make it so."

-- Mal

[SayItLoud]

7. And they weren't briefed when

The F'n MORON announced *we will be pulling out of Syria very soon* ! Putin told tRUMP to do that and the puppet did as told...just blurted it out before getting any input or telling top aides and Pentagon.

[Historic NY]

8. He knows more than all the Generals....

he told us that.