Add another lunatic and another coup brought up – ROSA BROOKS

Rosa Brooks is a law professor and the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Georgetown University Law Center, a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation,  her byline has appeared in publications all over the world, ranging from Harper’s Magazine to the Washington Post. From 2005 to 2009, she wrote a weekly op-edcolumn for the Los Angeles Times. Her writings focused on foreign policy, human rights, and national security issues

Education: Harvard University, Yale University, Yale Law School

As you read this, remember sedition is LEGAL in this nation.

Incitement which results in illegal actions is not (SPLC, Aryan Nation).

Obama Pentagon official says anti-Trump military coup now possible

Says Trump ‘as crazy as everyone feared’; claims military overthrow and ‘an insane order’ both ‘frightening’

A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the specter of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power.

In an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history.

“Donald Trump’s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared,” Ms. Brooks wrote. “[One] possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.”

How to get rid of Trump?

• Elect him out of office after his four-year term. “But after such a catastrophic first week, four years seems like a long time to wait,” she wrote.
• Impeachment. However, she lamented, “impeachments take time: months, if not longer — even with an enthusiastic Congress. And when you have a lunatic controlling the nuclear codes, even a few months seems like a perilously long time to wait.”
• Utilizing a claim of mental instability to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, which sets the path for the commander-in-chief’s removal if the “president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
• A military coup. She writes: “The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.”

What would top U.S. military leaders do if given an order that struck them as not merely ill-advised, but dangerously unhinged? An order that wasn’t along the lines of “Prepare a plan to invade Iraq if Congress authorizes it based on questionable intelligence,” but “Prepare to invade Mexico tomorrow!” or “Start rounding up Muslim Americans and sending them to Guantánamo!” or “I’m going to teach China a lesson — with nukes!”

Her defense?

“The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.”

Well I guess I'd better head for that remedial reading comprehension class.

File under what are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

Of course if you look up Rosa Brooks in Wikileaks …..

Following up on conversation at Soros dinnerte: 2015-05-13 12:47

From:brooks.rosa@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com  CC: jacob.sullivan@yale.edu  Date: 2015-05-13 12:47 Subject: Following up on conversation at Soros dinner

Subject: Following up on conversation at Soros dinner

John,
Nice to see you at George’s — and sorry to pepper you with plaintive “But what’s the big *idea*?” questions. I’m glad you’re at the helm of this particular ship. Below are links to a couple of recent pieces I wrote on HRC, including a Neera-inspired *mea culpa* from last summer and the piece I mentioned to you on advice to HRC from women foreign policy experts, and a longer piece on US strategy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/06/13/sorry-hillary-i-should-have-voted-for-you/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/13/how-to-destroy-the-robot-and-unleash-the-real-hillary-clinton-presidential-announcement/
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/14/embrace-the-chaos/ Let me know if there is anything I can do to be helpful to you and Jake. You’ve got plenty of talent you can tap already, but if I can be of help either on substantive matters or on the strategy/communications side, please let me know. I’m on sabbatical as of a few weeks from now, so have more free time than usual — and am happy to do appropriate penance for past sins of snarkiness!

Best, Rosa — Rosa Brooks Senior Fellow, New America Foundation Columnist and Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center (Assistant: Betsy Kuhn, jek63@law.georgetown.edu) www.rosabrooks.com