A Department of Defense adviser has resigned, effective immediately, from the military's science board, citing what he believed to be a violation of conduct from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

In his resignation letter to Esper, which was obtained by The Washington Post, James Miller Jr., who served as the US undersecretary of defense for policy from 2012 to 2014, recalled that he swore an oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" and "to bear true faith and allegiance to the same," similar to what the defense secretary had done before he took office.

"On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath," Miller wrote to Esper.

Miller's reasoning centered on President Donald Trump's visit Monday to St. John's Church in Washington, DC, where police cleared peaceful protesters with tear gas so that he could pose with a Bible for photographs.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop, described the scene to CNN and The Washington Post as an "abuse of sacred symbols" amid "a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for."

Budde told The Post that she "was not given even a courtesy call" that authorities would be clearing the area "with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop."

Esper, along with US Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was also present during the visit.


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Trump is loosing lots of Patriots

POLITICS.

He has just regained his senses. No one works under the empty head and reason correctly. It's just impossible.

GMBuhari:
Trump is loosing lots of Patriots

The man keeps shooting himself.

And some stupid goons will com,e here and suggest Trump declares martial law. It will split the army into racial, ideological and political lines.

wirinet:
And some stupid goons will com,e here and suggest Trump declares martial law. It will split the army into racial, ideological and political lines.

There are already reports about police officers taking on those of their colleagues who use excessive force against protesters.