Navy Will Keep Probing Captain Crozier, Despite Recommending He Get His Job Back | Talking Points Memo

The spotlight will continue to shine on Capt. Brett Crozier, who was relieved of command earlier this month after ringing alarm bells about the spread of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.


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But of course they will. All those little Eichmanns need something to do, and they will not let a chance to lose their moment in the black hole sun that is the Scumbag Administration.

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…because WTF…if they just let him BACK it may reflect ‘badly’ on Donnie for some reason…or one of the OTHER minions…much better to let a qualified man be smeared. Egregious.

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Esper is still playing the DON’T WAKE THE BABY & DON’T MAKE THE BABY CRY Defense that motivated Modly to be so publicly stupid. Recall that Esper defended Modly (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/05/esper-defends-firing-navy-captain-coronavirus-165635).

Esper’s Naval Toadies are going to find that Crozier didn’t do his math homework once in 7th grade and consider that cause for a different, demeaning job in Tierra del Fuego.

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Brass needs more time between the event and when he is reinstated. They want the public to forget.

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I think the Navy wants to reinstate, but you’ve got the baby part right. He has to be mollified and coaxed into going along with it.

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This is simply a case of acute chronic cerebral-rectal inversion. Not all that uncommon in the military, but endemic in Trump’s administration.

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Esper doesn’t want him back in because Esper’s been called on the carpet for trying to kow-tow to the President.

Hard for the military to both follow trump’s orders to open up, while planning the actual plans needed to keep troops safe.

And it undermines trump’s arguments that everyone can just go back to normal when the military is clearly doing everything but normal operations.

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Captain Crozier didn’t leak the email, so which of his so-called superiors did? His reinstatement ought to be independent of ferreting whose lips were loose.

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“This investigation will build on the good work of the initial inquiry to provide a more fulsome understanding…"
“fulsome”. yes- the very word.

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You mean Acting Eichmanns, don’t you?

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“We’re used to dealing with highly unpredictable enemies,” a spokesman said, “but we’ve never had to work for one before.”

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As I said, doing the right thing is very difficult for the military. It’s not in their DNA.

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I’m telling you, there is a position available for Captain Crozier in the Blue States Navy, at either the San Francisco, New York City, or Chicago bases.

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We can assume that bone spurs told the Navy not to reinstate the capt so they came up with this “further investigation” bullshit so as to find some excuse for not doing the right thing. Ugh!

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The hurdle is SecDef Mark Esper (Yet another honorable graduate of West Point). Who went public supporting the “tough decision” of sacking Crozier. The wingnut-sphere (including many ex-military) wholeheartedly approved the destitution of Crozier, even though some would admit that Acting Secretary Modly was a jerk. Esper like the rest of the Trump-turds needs to decide between what is right and what the MAGA mob expects. If we look at how Pompeo, Mnuchin and the rest of the cabinet members has acted so far when facing such decisions, Crozier is screwed.

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The spotlight will continue to shine on Capt. Brett Crozier…

Do you mean to tell me that he still has not fully recovered from his bout of COVID-19?

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I wonder if Spanky has anything to do with the delay. It was his moron Navy Secretary who was brought down trying to please the President’s every whim.

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BINGO! That’s exactly what happened.

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… Acting Navy Secretary James McPherson said in a statement Wednesday that had he had “follow up” questions that could only be answered with more investigation…

Questions like, “Am I implicated in any way at all in the initial inquiry?”

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