Tue Jul 26, 2022 – 1:26 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee is demanding that the Department of Defense (DOD) “immediately” halt its initiative to purge “extremists” from the military.
The recently-published Senate report, which accompanies the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), takes aim at the bill’s proposed initiative to combat “extremism” in the military. It has already devoted about half a million dollars to anti-extremism training and analysis.
The recent Senate report blasted the military’s “anti-extremism” effort as unwarranted, declaring, according to Roll Call, “[t]he committee believes that the vast majority of service members serve with honor and distinction, and that the narrative surrounding systemic extremism in the military besmirches the men and women in uniform.”
“The committee believes that when extremist activity does in fact occur that it must be dealt with swiftly and appropriately; however, the case incident rate does not warrant a Department-wide effort on the issue,” the report continued.
Emily Rainey, a former Army Special Operations psychological warfare officer who was featured in Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” series, told LifeSiteNews that the money devoted to the anti-extremism effort only “scratches the surface of the massive iceberg
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors