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USNI News Department of Navy Comptroller Harker to Serve as Acting SECNAV February 19, 2021 5:52 PM   This post has been updated to clarify that Thomas Harker was performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense and comptroller. Thomas Harker, who for the last few years has served as the Department of the Navy’s chief civilian financial official, will assume the role of acting Navy secretary once President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in, a Navy official confirmed to USNI News. Since 2018,...

Joint Chiefs send memo to troops condemning MAGA riots as sedition Associated Press and Dailymail.com Reporter © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The militarys top leaders issued a written reminder to all service members Tuesday that the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week was an anti-democratic, criminal act, and that the right to free speech gives no-one the right to commit violence. A memo signed by all members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also reminded mili...

US News: "The violent riot... was as direct assault on the US Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process," said a memorandum signed by all

A letter said members of the armed services are bound to defend the constitution. Washington: The Pentagons top generals condemned the January 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on Tuesday, telling US troops that it was an illegal assault on the constitutional process. "The violent riot... was as direct assault on the US Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process," said a memorandum signed by all eight members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by the chairman, Gene...

In striking letter to forces as National Guard deploys in Washington, Joint Chiefs of Staff say freedom of speech does not allow for 'violence, sedition and insurrection'

US Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff warn any act that disrupts the constitutional process is against the law.

WASHINGTON — The military is expanding its investigation into whether any troops who participated in last week’s pro-Trump rally also took part in the violence inside the U.S. Capitol, even as lawmakers are pressing the Defense Department to rescreen the thousands of military personnel assigned to s

POLITICO Members of the D.C. National Guard were watching traffic as a riot unfolded blocks away. Trump supporters stormed the halls of the capitol on Jan. 6. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Updated: Link Copied As pro-Trump rioters besieged the Capitol complex last week, leading to five deaths and scores of injuries, hundreds of members of the D.C. National Guard — with easy access to body armor, shields and helmets — sat on the sidelines around the city, unable to act. In conversations wi...

Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden's victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest. To be on...

A senior administration source confirmed to CBS News that President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke Monday evening in the Oval Office, their first meeting since the assault on the U.S. Capitol last week. The source described it as a "good" conversation. A former White House official with close ties to Pence earlier told CBS News that the vice president is "discouraged, disheartened, hurt and stunned." The source said Pence never seriously considered using the 25th Amendment to remove ...