re: Traitorous Navy brass

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So I don't know if Trump's decision is a good one or not. I do know once it's made any military member who bucks it should have his arse on the way out, good decision or not. That's exactly what they'd do to their subordinates who tried to subvert their command authority because they disagreed with it.

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There was this in the NBC article on this story...

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Four officials familiar with Spencer’s thinking say he is strongly considering resigning and will do so if Trump signs a written order to end the Navy probe. He conveyed those feelings to Pentagon leaders on Thursday.

“He is deeply, deeply upset by this and believes it undercuts his authority,” one former Navy official said, adding that it also undercuts Rear Adm. Collin Green, commander of the Navy’s Special Warfare Command, who ordered the review and is trying to maintain good order and discipline in the SEAL community.

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What Spencer refuses to understand and acknowledge that it is not his authority and does not belong to him, it belongs to Donald Trump.

It's the President's authority and it is an authority that Trump gave him permission him to exercise and Spencer does not have free reign to use it for whatever he pleases. Use of that authority ends when he wants to do something that the President opposes.

The constitution says that the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Pretty straightforward and says nothing about the Secretary of the Navy.