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
    14·
    23 hours 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?

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    1 day 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·
    1 day ago

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

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 day 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.

    • Sean@infosec.pubEnglish
      671·
      2 days ago

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

    • RainbowHedgehog@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      2 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·
      1 day 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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      17·
      2 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·
        2 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.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      1 day 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

    • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 day 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.

    • turtl@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

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

      • yoshman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

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

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 days ago

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

  • tane@lemm.eeEnglish
    82·
    1 day ago

    If war with China happens I am 100% defecting to China lol. I have absolutely zero love or respect for my shithole country.

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      121·
      1 day ago

      I’d like to caution against percieving the grass as being greener.

      The US is being a shitbird, but do not let that cloud criticism of other countries- their governments are (usually) rarely better.

      And nobody treats turncoats particularly well, especially if they don’t offer concrete and immediate value beyond ‘hostage’.

      Far better to agitate where you’re at- help your neighbors where and how you can and demonstrate how they’re being lied to.