Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance have been removed from the US.
The former army chief, who has irked the newly re-elected President Donald Trump, was named as the subject of a Pentagon announcement on Tuesday. Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense of the United States, has also ordered an investigation into his conduct.
Hegseth has instructed the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to launch an investigation into Milley’s behavior to determine whether reopening a Milley-related military grade assessment, according to a statement from the Pentagon on Tuesday.
“Undermining the chain of command is corrosive to our national security”, Joe Kasper, the Defense Department chief of staff, said in a statement.
Shortly after Trump took the oath of office, Milley’s image was taken from the Pentagon. The Pentagon’s second and final portrait, in the opinion of US news outlet Fox News, will also be taken down.
In response to growing hostility between the two, Trump fired Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council earlier this month.
Milley called Beijing to reassure China of the US stability following the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.
Trump called the phone call “an act so egregious that the punishment would have been death” in the past.
Former Trump appointee Milley once claimed that the Republican leader was “fascist to the core.”
Former President Joe Biden granted a , a preemptive pardon from Milley on his last day in office, a request for which the 66-year-old former general expressed gratitude.
The ex-military chief and others “do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions,” according to Biden.
Source: Aljazeera
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