โIf you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail,โ Air Force Gen.ย?John Hyten told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia. Hyten,ย?the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command who oversees Americaโs nuclear arsenal, spoke at a forum titled โNukes: The Fire and the Fury,โ as recorded in a video on the eventโs Facebook page.ย?He didnโt define what exactly would constitute an illegal launch order.ย?But Hyten said he has been trained for the past 36 years in the law of armed conflict,ย?and mentioned the consideration of such elements as proportional response and unnecessary suffering that would be caused by such a conflagration. In the event Trump suggests an illegal strike, Hyten described a scenario in which he would present Trump with legal choices.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has found no violations with an infamous Arkansas eventย?that involves dropping live turkeys from a plane โ but that may be because no one ever thought theyโd need a rule about that. โFAA regulations do not specifically prohibit dropping live animals from aircraft, possibly because the authors of the regulation never anticipated that an explicit prohibition would be necessary,โ an FAA spokesman told HuffPost in an email. The Associated Press and WREG reported last month that the FAA would be looking into possible laws or regulations broken during the annual Turkey Trot festival in Yellville, Arkansas.
A US Republican congressman misled police over his assault on a journalist a day before he was elected, according to documents released by investigators. Greg Gianforte told an officer that Guardian newspaper reporter Ben Jacobs had grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him to the floor of his campaign office after โinterrogatingโ him, according to notes from a Gallatin County sheriffโs officer who interviewed the politician after the incident unfolded.