More Tom Cotton.
Who does the Senator really serve? The American people or a dubious member of the Military Complex? Was the question answered yesterday?
McMaster Needs Senate Confirmation to Keep All Three Stars
Cotton’s loyalty to McMaster showed up in 2007, when the senator actually went so far as to send in his resignation papers to the Army. According to his office, one of the reasons was because McMaster had been passed over for elevation to a one-star general. Cotton ultimately stayed on active duty until transferring to the Army Reserve in 2010.
Sen. Tom Cotton had multiple conversations with the White House about the possibility of McMaster becoming national security adviser, an aide to the Arkansas Republican said Monday.
“H.R McMaster is one of the finest combat leaders of our generation and also a great strategic mind. He is a true warrior scholar, and I’m confident he will serve both the president and the country well,” Cotton said in a statement.
And one might expect the same for McMaster, with Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., having praised the pick.
“General McMaster does not require Senate confirmation to serve as National Security Adviser,” a Senate Armed Services Committee aide said. “However, if it is the president’s desire that General McMaster serve as National Security Adviser while in his current grade of lieutenant general, the law requires that General McMaster would have to be reappointed by the president and reconfirmed by the Senate in that grade for his new position.”
https://www.rollcall.com/2017/02/21/mcmaster-needs-senate-confirmation-to-keep-all-three-stars/