General Mark Milee’s safety details and safety preparation are lifted, Pentagon says

Retired General Mark Miley, who served as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the Trump and Biden administrations, has had both his security detail and his security ready -to -be -called, Pentagon says.

The new defense secretary Pete Hegeth “informed General Milley today that he also revoked his security detail and suspends his security preparation,” Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot told CBS News in a statement on Tuesday night.

Ullyot said that Hegeth “also directed the” Defense Ministry’s Office of Inspector General to “conduct an investigation into the facts and circumstances of General Milese’s behavior so that the secretary can determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his determination of military quality.”

Effecting Defense Department Inspector Stephen Stebbins received a request to review whether Miley, a four-star general, should be deprived of a star, a spokesman at the Pentagon’s Inspector Gernal’s office also told CBS News. Stebbins reviews the request.

Trump nominated Milley to lead the joint bosses during his first period, a position Milley held for a full four -year period from 2019 to 2023.

Mr. However, Trump and Miley were a public fall in the last months of Mr. Trump’s first period over multiple incidents, starting with an apology Milley issued to attend while he was dressed in fatigue, in Photo up In front of St. John’s Church in June 2020, after federal officers cleared out social justice protests from Lafayette Park, then Mr. Trump could go to church from the White House.

A book published in September 2021 revealed that Milley had also engaged in two phone calls – one on October 30, 2020 and the other at January 8, 2021Two days after the Capitol uprising – with Chinese General Li Zuocheng of People’s Liberation Army to assure him that the United States would not launch an attack on China and that the United States was stable.

At the time of revelation, Mr. Trump that Milley should be tried for “betrayal.” Then in a shocking 2023 Social Media PostMr. Trump suggested that the calls were a “treacherous act” that could justify execution.

In one October 2023 Interview With “60 minutes,” Miley said the calls were “an example of Descalation. So – there were clear indications – that the Chinese were very concerned about what they observed – here in the United States.”

According to another book from 2021, Milley feared Mr. Trump would try a cupp After losing the election in 2020 and preparing in the event that such a plan had been executed.

On January 20, when he left the Embed, former President Joe Bid Except pardoned Miley along with others thought he could be targeted by the Trump administration.

In a statement on Tuesday, Joe Kasper, head of the Defense Ministry, CBS News, said that “undermining the command chain is corrosive to our national security, and that restoration of accountability is a priority to the Ministry of Defense under President Trump’s leadership.”

Trump -Administration has also recalled Federal Security Details by former Trump -State Secretary Mike Pompeo, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton, the former Trump -Servant envoy on Iran Brian Hook and Dr. Anthony FauciFormer long -time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.