Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China
www.nytimes.com
The access would be a major expansion of Elon Musk’s government role and highlight his conflicts of interest.

The Pentagon is scheduled on Friday to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Another official said the briefing will be China focused, without providing additional details. A fourth official confirmed Mr. Musk was to be at the Pentagon on Friday, but offered no details.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Did I miss the part where this piece of shit was vetted and granted security clearance? This is out of hand. Why does this man have access to literally anything that I don’t within my fucking government?

    • Sean@infosec.pubEnglish
      671·
      3 days ago

      I feel like i repeat this to myself 20 times a day. I can’t stand this administration.

    • RainbowHedgehog@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      3 days ago

      Trump was trying to get China to attack to initiate martial law in 2021. He’s probably trying to start a war to initiate martial law now.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      My guess is to rile up his base into supporting his shenanigans while he makes himself forever-godking.

      He won’t actually fight China, or if he does he won’t do it seriously. Trump constantly swoons over Xi Jinping and works closely with Vladimir Putin which China has close ties with like threads in a tapestry. I simply do not believe Trump’s words.

    • talEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      According to Musk’s Twitter account, he has a top secret clearance and apparently some sort of compartmentalized clearances.

      https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890282404897534089

      I’ve had a top secret clearance for many years and have clearances that themselves are classified.

      That said, FAR too much information is made “classified”. If something is easily found online or patently obvious, it should NOT be classified. This impedes effective communication within the government.

      • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

        Agreed, in my early 20’s I applied for a job with the TSA. After passing the interview I had to take a test to determine if I was fit for the job, before I could take the test I had to be cleared for confidential clearance. So even though I didn’t pass the test, and didn’t get the job, I had a low level government clearance and an NDA that kept me from disclosing what I saw.

        Funny enough that clearance did come in handy when I had to get an FBI background check to work at the airport doing line service, the guy who did the paperwork was shocked at how fast my paperwork was given the all clear.

    • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      It has likely changed since I last checked before his presidency, but he had a Top Secret Clearance with NO SCI.

      I knew he had admitted to actively using drugs a few times and I wondered how he held an active security clearance. What I could find was essentially: SpaceX was the best option for the US government to conduct satellite-based intelligence missions, as in launch satellites into orbit for the purpose of Space Force related surveillance.

      To that end they waived a lot of sketchy shit on Elon’s background to give him a TS so he could primarily attend and give briefings, but no SCI as he didn’t actually do any work requiring it.

      Source: I wish I could fucking find any now, but there’s a flood of thousands of article talking about his security clearance as a presidential advisor now.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      He has some level of clearance due to the work SpaceX is done but even there, he does not have access to some of SpaceX program because he could not get the right level of clearance

    • turtl@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      He’s probably had a security clearance for a while now due to his involvement in space x

      • yoshman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 days ago

        Not necessarily. Their are directors at my work that don’t have any clearances.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    This is great. Now he’ll be able to use giving the plans to Xi as a bargaining chip for a couple more tesla factories in China.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    “You’re gambling with World War Three!” yelled Trump to his guest, the president of Ukraine, without any sign of irony.

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      3 days ago

      Musk is the CEO of the United Corporations of America and Trump is the Chairman of the board.

  • sleezer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    We have deranged psychopaths in charge of the US. We really are going to have WW3 soon aren’t we

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well attempting to annex Canada or Greenland automatically enacts Article 5 of NATO so 31 countries should in theory fight back. 29 of them would likely assist in their defense, and by defense I mean attacking the U.S. in ways that will economically starve the country until 10-15% of the voters realize this has all been idiocy and drag those responsible out of office and ban all responsible ever holding a public office again. Then we would have lost all trade allies and spend 100 years building back respect. Media will slowly start bringing their heinousness to light and slowly the vast majority will deny they were ever a part of it out of shame

      • finder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        attacking the U.S. in ways that will economically starve the country until 10-15% of the voters realize this has all been idiocy and drag those responsible out of office and ban all responsible ever holding a public office again.

        Wishful thinking.

        These bastards are spin masters that have conditioned their fandom to automatically assume all bad things are the fault of DeMoCraTeS, Woke-isms and foreigners. The mere thought that “their guy” could harm them is nearly impossible to comprehend. The people most responsible for such a disaster will thrive in the chaos they cause.

        This timeline fuck’n sucks.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Maybe, but not many people in the U.S. think attacking Canada or the U.K. something they wanted to do pre-trump. So hopefully they’ll be some sense. Every non-white person in the U.S. still hasn’t absorbed the information that Trump removed the restrictions on segregation for bathrooms/resteraunts/water fountains for all U.S. contractors. The amount of interracial families that should start picking up that the racism is real should hopefully start accelerating at some point. The question is if it will be to far gone at that point.

          • finder@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I agree with you.

            The question is if it will be to far gone at that point.

            I do think that the rest of the US is not that far gone. Even if the Trump fandom is a lost cause.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    2 days ago

    Complete Bluff.

    Unless the plan is to literally give away US Territory to China this will never happen.

    Xi Jinping, Putin, and Trump are all on the same wavelength, cut from the same cloth, birds of a feather.

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    3 days ago

    He’s not holding any cards right now. Trump made him a tough guy. He’s gambling with World War 3.

    Wait, sounds… Nah forget it.