BREAKING: former commander of #USSTheodoreRoosevelt Capt Brett Crozier will not be reinstated post @USNavy investigation
Crozier, Rear Admiral Stuart Baker "fell well short of what we expect from those in command" per @USNavyCNO Adm Gilday
"They did not do enough,soon enough"
MORE: Capt Crozier will not be reassigned & will not be eligible for another command position, and promotion of Crozier's then boss, Rear Adm Stuart Baker on hold, per @USNavyCNO
Capt Crozier did not leak email up the chain of command about #COVID19 concerns - decision not to reinstate him based on Crozier's performance while in command, per @USNavyCNO
Per @USNavyCNO, his initial recommendation to support Crozier's reinstatement was based solely on the question of the email
Gilday says if he knew then, what he knows now, he wouldn't have made that recommendation
"He did a bunch of things right" @USNavyCNO says of relieved #USSTheodoreRoosevelt Capt Crozier, but fell "well short" in other areas, including physical distancing/social distancing
"I was not impressed by the slow egress of the ship, the lack of the plan to do so..."
The extensive problems @USNavy is citing in decision on Capt Crozier "were never visible to us until we did the deeper investigation" per @USNavyCNO
"This is all about what Crozier failed to do in his span of control" per @USNavyCNO
"Baker and Crozier were talking with the commander of the 7th Fleet every day" per @USNavyCNO "If they had issues, they should have raised them"
US still has not been able to identify patient zero on #USSTheodoreRoosevelt per @USNavyCNO Adm Gilday, citing way #COVID9 can spread among asymptomatic carriers
"Likely, it happened during the port visit to #Vietnam...We don't have a clear understanding of patient zero"
"The issue here is about standards of performance, especially in crisis" per @USNavyCNO
"I need people gripping problems. I need them driving solutions...had I known then what I know now, I would have relieved him [Capt Crozier]"
Per @USNavyCNO, no ramifications/punishments for admiral who made decision to send #USSTheodoreRoosevelt to #Vietnam: "We found no fault in the rationale to go into port"
"We found that that decision is sound...risk was adequately considered & mitigated" he adds
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Pentagon assesses since February 2022, Russia's suffered 600,000 casualties
This September, "Russian forces sustained more casualties in terms of both killed & wounded in action than in any other month" per a sr US defense official
"#Russia|n losses, again, both killed & wounded in action in just the 1st year of the war exceeded the total of all Russian losses or Soviet losses in any conflict since World War Two combined" per sr US defense official
#Ukraine "have sunk, destroyed or damaged at least 32 medium to large #Russia|n Federation navy vessels in the #BlackSea" per sr US defense official
NEW: US charges American TV presenter for Channel One #Russia & his wife in scheme to evade US sanctions
@TheJusticeDept unsealed the indictment vs 76yo Dimitri Simes & 55yo Anastasia Simes Thursday
They have a home in #Virginia but "remain at large...believed to be in Russia"
Dimitri & Anastasia Simes each charged w/1 count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 1 count of violating the IEEPA & 1 count of conspiracy to commit int'l money laundering
Per @TheJusticeDept, it's a maximum of 20 years per count
Dimitri Simes alleged to have violated sanctions by "serving as a presenter & producer of programming, & by receiving over $1 million, a personal car & driver, a stipend for an apartment in #Moscow... a team of 10 employees from Channel One Russia" per DOJ
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash & Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi were charged in June 2008 & then again in May 2012 for their alleged roles in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on #NewYork's World Trade Center & the Pentagon
JUST IN: US issues new National Counterintelligence Strategy
Updated strategy, signed by @POTUS Thursday, based on 3 pillars, per @NCSCgov:
-outmaneuver/constrain foreign intelligence entities
-protect US strategic advantages
-invest in the future
"Foreign intelligence and security services & their proxies persist in seeking to acquire our most
sensitive information, technology, and intellectual property" per @POTUS in the just-released strategy
"Non-state actors are following suit"
Foreign intelligence entities "also seeking to take advantage of the proliferation of commercially available tools to conduct surveillance; collect vast amounts of previously unavailable personal data;
& position themselves to disrupt our infrastructure..." per @POTUS