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本帖最后由 Dracula 于 2015-4-12 17:58 编辑
这是Fox News上的报道。
An Air Force general has been fired after an investigation into comments he made to lower-ranking officers about how talking to members of Congress about the capabilities about the A-10 “Warthog” attack jet was tantamount to treason, the Air Force confirmed Friday.
The comments by Maj. Gen. James Post, the number 2 commander at the Air Combat Command, had a “chilling effect on some of the attendees and caused them to feel constrained from communicating with members of Congress,” according to a report by the Air Force inspector general.
Post spoke to a group of over 300 Air Force officers at a weapons and tactics conference in Nevada on January 10. In response to a question about the status of the A-10, Post was reported to have said that it was their duty to support the service’s budget priorities by not offering opinions inconsistent with those aims.
Post “discussed the importance of loyalty to senior leader decisions and used the word 'treason' in describing his thoughts on communication by Airmen counter to those decisions,” the Air Force said in a statement.
The report concluded that Post's "choice of words had the effect of attempting to prevent some members from lawfully communicating with Congress.”
Post released a statement late Friday in which he apologized for what he described as his “poor choice of words.”
The objective of my comment was simply meant to focus the attention of the audience on working within the command's constraints,” Post said.
“It was sincerely never my intention to discourage anyone's access to their elected officials. I now understand how my poor choice of words may have led a few attendees to draw this conclusion and I offer my humble apology for causing any undue strain on the command and its mission," Post said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/ ... 10-treason-remarks/
即使他只是提问时随口回答,他的回答的实际效果也是减少了空军士兵向国会反应意见,这么做明显违规。尤其对军人在这个问题上有特别的要求。当年麦克阿瑟被杜鲁门解职的直接原因,就是他给共和党众议员Joseph Martin写信,批评杜鲁门的战争政策,他的信被Martin在国会朗读,用来攻击杜鲁门政府。杜鲁门解职麦克阿瑟的决定当时是有很大争议,但是现在的史学家都认为是正确的决定,明确了民选政府对军队的绝对领导权。还有一个例子,几年前,一个士兵在facebook上发帖, "Screw Obama and I will not follow all orders from him." 被军队开除。我读过一些军人的反应,都认为是正确的决定。这次被免职的这个将军的言论比这些还要出格。
对普通公务员言论的限制要比对军人的标准松得多。我以前那个帖子里提到的一个案例,一个警察听到广播里里根遇刺的消息后,对一个同事说要是里根再次遇刺的话,她希望刺客能成功。被另一个同事听到报告给上级被开除。但是最高法院判决,她的这个言论尽管出格但是同其工作要求无关。她被开除违反了第一宪法修正案。
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