Who is responsible? Sec. Austin & Gen. Milley after Biden shared intel with China would “never” advise it.
On 4/7/2022, during Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the current defense budget request, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked the decision to share intelligence with the China. When asked if he agreed that giving intelligence to the nation’s adversaries was a poor decision, Austin responded affirmatively. “I think that’s something that we absolutely work to avoid,” Austin said.
When asked why senior Biden officials held meetings with top Chinese officials specifically for that purpose, Austin said he was not aware of the situation. “I don’t have insights on any occurrences like that,” Austin said to Blackburn. “I am unfamiliar with the issue that you raised, but you are right [not to support giving intel to adversaries].”
When Blackburn asked Milley how often he had advised sharing intelligence with China’s communist regime, he said that he had never advised the president to take such action. “Zero,” Milley said. “Never.”
Milley drew widespread criticism last year after a book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa stated that Milley held two secret phone calls with his counterpart in the Chinese Communist Party during the Trump administration. The book alleged that Milley believed then-President Donald Trump was unstable and that he made the calls to China to assure the regime that the United States would not attack them.
The Biden administration later defended Milley’s actions. The acting secretary of defense at the time of the calls, Chris Miller, said that he did not authorize the calls. Miller said at the time that, if true, the calls presented a “disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the Nation’s top military officer.”
The Senator’s questions referred to a report from the New York Times that senior Biden administration officials met and shared intelligence with their Chinese officials on at least six separate occasions in the months leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. During these meetings, U.S. officials delivered reports on Russian troop movements, which Chinese leaders then reportedly passed on to Moscow.
Senior Pentagon officials have denied involvement in the Biden administration’s reported decision to share intelligence with China.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley both said that they did not advise such action or know about it.
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Who is responsible? Biden shared intel with China: “never” advise it. Less law enforcement at border. Hispanic voters moving toward GOP.