Sunday, April 5, 2020

Ryan Zinke: Navy Capt. Crozier’s ‘Actions Were Wrong,’ Biden ‘Grasping’ to Stay Relevant by Defending


 US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, seen here during March 13, 2018 testimony before the Senate, will be leaving the administration soon, President Donald Trump has announced
 Modly said the captain did not raise the issue with his superior, who lived down the hall on the ship, or try to alert Modly personally before sending the memo over unsecured and unclassified lines, which ensured its leak. Zinke said it is “black and white” that Crozier violated the chain of command.
Former Interior Secretary and retired Navy SEAL Commander Ryan Zinke dismissed Joe Biden’s criticism of the administration for firing Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

“I think Biden is just trying to be relevant on any issue at this point. So I think he should not have taken his staff’s direction on this,” Zinke told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Friday.
Zinke said of Crozier:
His actions were wrong. … Looked like he was well-liked, fine. I hope he was. I hope he was. But you know, it’s a swing and a miss for Biden and the other political pundits that try to find wrongdoing in every corner and the wrongdoing in this case was the loss of confidence in the commanding officer that broke the chain of command. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
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2 comments:

  1. Desperate times evoke desperate decisions. I always resented
    the six fleet's decision to abandon the USS Liberty what was
    an illegal order by LBJ. The Captain's first obligation is to
    his men. I understand the Captain has been diagnosed with
    Corona virus.

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