Shortly after the Capitol protests, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, demanding access to a phone call between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and General Mark Milley.
The call was exposed in a letter that she wrote to Democratic lawmakers, and in the letter Pelosi outlined an effort to prevent a “unhinged” President Trump from gaining access to the nuclear codes at the time.
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The Department of Defense has yet to respond to their FOIA request, which was submitted on January 11th, according to Judicial Watch.
If Speaker Pelosi’s account of her conversation with General Milley is precise, it sets a dangerous precedent that could put in danger the position of the president as commander in chief and the separation of powers, as Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton claims.
“The aim of our latest litigation is to find out the facts about the call.”
BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced that it has filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOD for records about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 8, 2021, telephone call with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley (1/3). https://t.co/yfWSaGIkNU
— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) March 9, 2021
The complaint was filed after the Defense Department rejected responding to a FOIA request for all information in connection with the call, including transcripts and videos.
The request also demanded some communications between Pelosi and Milley from just before the election until now.
Pelosi admitted speaking with Milley about preventing Trump from obtaining the nuclear codes during the riot that happened in early January at the Capitol.
She stated that she discussed “available safeguards for preventing an unstable president from launching military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike” with Milley.
“This unhinged President’s condition could not be more dangerous,” Pelosi cautioned, “and we must do all we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced attack on our nation and democracy.”
Who was more insane in this case: Trump for requesting election integrity or Pelosi for suggesting Trump could launch a nuclear attack out of nowhere?
A coup of Pelosi's own. https://t.co/eca7aMQEeT via @WSJ
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 9, 2021
Wall Street Journal depicted the actions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “a coup of Pelosi’s own.”
They noted, “Mrs. Pelosi’s call to Gen. Milley is itself a breach of the separation of powers by attempting to intervene in an executive-branch military decision.”
“It may also be construed by others as its own little coup—conniving with the military to strip the elected President of command.”
Aside from Pelosi’s attempted coup against the former president, House Democrats are now demanding President Biden to renounce sole command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war https://t.co/AOIHaYf1b4 pic.twitter.com/OSKJ64d3cW
— POLITICO (@politico) February 23, 2021
Yet, even this effort to give Congress partial authority is a thinly covered attack on Trump.
A letter from Democratic lawmakers to Biden says, “Past presidents have tried to strike other countries with nuclear weapons or displayed actions that prompted other officials to express doubt about the president’s judgment.”
The footnotes in the letter implied to the assumed “threat” from the former president to nuke North Korea, which Trump has left open as an option for re-election in 2024.
It would be of significant matter to see if Judicial Watch is given access to see what actions Pelosi and Milley took to avert the Commander-in-Chief from gaining access to nuclear codes.
If during that period something happened, there is a possibility it may have been a significant threat to national security.
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