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Rangel claimed he reported the issue up the chain of command on at least two occasions in 2018 and 2019 but the department never launched an investigation.

“That seems way beyond inappropriate to me, somebody who’s there representing the U.S. military within the military chain of command with a U.S. senator on Armed Services, that makes it really bad.”

They include a civilian employee who was married to another officer and an Air Force enlisted member significantly lower down the chain of command than Finerty.

They signal a presidential willingness to commit war crimes in pursuit of partisan political objectives that could fundamentally rupture the American military chain of command from private to general, undermine national security, and destroy an institution that has been a democratic cornerstone of the republic since its founding.

Those constraints are meant to prevent presidents from abusing their privileged position atop the military’s chain of command.