Texas' Republican leadership is suddenly fine with the White House sending troops to the state

[Judi Lynn]

Remember Jade Helm?

CASEY MICHEL
NOV 2, 2018, 4:12 PM

Three years ago, Texas’ Republican leaders were more than willing to pander to conspiracy theories regarding the prospect of the Obama White House sending troops into the state.

But suddenly, with President Donald Trump’s announcement this week that he would be shipping 5,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border — a political stunt designed to whip up his racist base — that fear seems to have vanished, replaced by full-throated support instead.

The 2015 U.S. military training maneuvers, dubbed Jade Helm, weren’t even half the size of Trump’s current operation. Jade Helm spanned a handful of states, including Texas, and focused on training U.S. forces in assorted exercises.

Several of Texas’ top elected officials at the time, all of whom remain in power, decried the training mission as little more than cover for an Obama administration bent on imposing martial law.

More:
https://thinkprogress.org/texas-republican-leadership-is-suddenly-fine-with-the-white-house-sending-troops-to-the-state-bfd729b14b8c/

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1. 'Jade Helm' Conspiracy Theories Were Part Of Russian Disinformation Campaign, Former CIA Chief Says

http://www.kut.org/post/jade-helm-conspiracy-theories-were-part-russian-disinformation-campaign-former-cia-chief-says
'Jade Helm' Conspiracy Theories Were Part Of Russian Disinformation Campaign, Former CIA Chief Says
By Matt Largey • May 3, 2018

The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency says the hysteria over a 2015 U.S. military exercise in Central Texas, known as Operation Jade Helm 15, was caused or fed by Russians working to use information warfare.

The exercise became big news when conspiracy theorists began spreading rumors that it was part of a government plot to lay the groundwork for martial law and mass internment.

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