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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWilliam McRaven: If good men like Joe Maguire can't speak the truth, we should be deeply afraid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/william-mcraven-if-good-men-like-joe-maguire-cant-speak-the-truth-we-should-be-deeply-afraid/2020/02/21/2068874c-5503-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
By William H. McRaven
Feb. 21, 2020 at 8:04 p.m. EST
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
Edmund Burke, the Irish statesman and philosopher, once said: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Over the course of the past three years, I have watched good men and women, friends of mine, come and go in the Trump administration all trying to do something all trying to do their best. Jim Mattis, John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Sue Gordon, Dan Coats and, now, Joe Maguire, who until this week was the acting director of national intelligence.
I have known Joe for more than 40 years. There is no better officer, no better man and no greater patriot. He served for 36 years as a Navy SEAL. In 2004, he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and was chosen to command all of Naval Special Warfare, including the SEALs. Those were dark days for the SEALs. Our combat losses from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the highest in our history, and Joe and his wife, Kathy, attended every SEAL funeral, providing comfort and solace to the families of the fallen.
But it didnt stop there. Not a day went by that the Maguires didnt reach out to some Gold Star family, some wounded SEAL, some struggling warrior. Every loss was personal, every family precious. When Joe retired in 2010, he tried the corporate world. But his passion for the Special Operations soldiers was so deep that he left a lucrative job and took the position as the president of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a charity that pays for educating the children of fallen warriors.
In 2018, Joe was asked to be the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, a job he knew well from his last assignment as a vice admiral. He accepted, but within months of his arrival came the announcement of Coatss departure as director of national intelligence. Maguire didnt seek to fill the job; he was asked to do it by the president. At first he declined, suggesting that Sue Gordon, Coatss deputy, would be better suited for the job.
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By William H. McRaven
Feb. 21, 2020 at 8:04 p.m. EST
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
Edmund Burke, the Irish statesman and philosopher, once said: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Over the course of the past three years, I have watched good men and women, friends of mine, come and go in the Trump administration all trying to do something all trying to do their best. Jim Mattis, John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Sue Gordon, Dan Coats and, now, Joe Maguire, who until this week was the acting director of national intelligence.
I have known Joe for more than 40 years. There is no better officer, no better man and no greater patriot. He served for 36 years as a Navy SEAL. In 2004, he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and was chosen to command all of Naval Special Warfare, including the SEALs. Those were dark days for the SEALs. Our combat losses from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the highest in our history, and Joe and his wife, Kathy, attended every SEAL funeral, providing comfort and solace to the families of the fallen.
But it didnt stop there. Not a day went by that the Maguires didnt reach out to some Gold Star family, some wounded SEAL, some struggling warrior. Every loss was personal, every family precious. When Joe retired in 2010, he tried the corporate world. But his passion for the Special Operations soldiers was so deep that he left a lucrative job and took the position as the president of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a charity that pays for educating the children of fallen warriors.
In 2018, Joe was asked to be the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, a job he knew well from his last assignment as a vice admiral. He accepted, but within months of his arrival came the announcement of Coatss departure as director of national intelligence. Maguire didnt seek to fill the job; he was asked to do it by the president. At first he declined, suggesting that Sue Gordon, Coatss deputy, would be better suited for the job.
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William McRaven: If good men like Joe Maguire can't speak the truth, we should be deeply afraid (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
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MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)1. Boy howdy .... truth right there by Ret. Adm. McRaven.
And then more MF45 sewage drips assaulting our IC writ large.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)2. When Bill McRaven speaks,
we should ALL be listening.