The whirlwind of personnel changes at the Pentagon continued on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, with the report that Christopher C. Miller, the new Acting Secretary of Defense, has brought in retired Col. Douglas Macgregor as a senior policy advisor. News media speculation is that Macgregor, who has long been known as a military dissident inside the Washington Beltway and a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, has been brought in to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and possibly also Syria.
However, it’s not an early U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that is causing panic within the corporate media but rather the potential that the personnel changes that Trump has made at the Pentagon may sabotage Joe Biden’s fantasy of using the U.S. military to remove Trump from the White House. The New York Times, in its coverage of the personnel changes, reveals the fear that the moves could finally finish off the Russiagate operation.
“The hires come as Mr. Trump and some of his aides have been pressing to declassify documents that would describe sources of information inside the Kremlin. The President’s advocates have long argued that these could prove that four years of allegations about the 2016 actions by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in support of Mr. Trump’s candidacy were a hoax, despite the fact that Mr. Trump’s Justice Department has indicted Russian military intelligence officers,” the Times reports. “Administration officials said that Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA, could be next on Mr. Trump’s list of dismissals because of her long-running effort to keep classified a series of documents on the agency’s information inside the Kremlin.”
