The media has been complaining incessantly that Trump doesn't listen to the "intelligence community". Here's a question. Why doesn't Obama listen to the "military community"? Including his own Secretary of Defense when it comes to freeing traitors.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter strongly opposed Obama’s decision to commute the sentence of Bradley Manning, in effect allowing Manning to walk free on May 17. A U.S. official said that Carter opposed the decision in no uncertain terms,
Carter also opposed Obama's open door for terrorists.
The White House wants to quickly cut the number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. One man is standing in the way: President Obama’s Defense Secretary, Ash Carter.
Carter and the White House are increasingly at odds about how to whittle down the number of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, hampering the administration’s push to close the detention center by the end of its term.
The White House believes that Carter is unwilling to be accountable for the transfer of Guantanamo detainees and their conduct post-release, even to the point of defying the president’s policy on the detention facility, a White House source told The Daily Beast.
There’s even speculation that if the President follows through on his threat to veto the defense budget bill to win changes on detainee policy, he will ask that the law be amended so that the president, not the defense secretary, has the final say on detainee transfers.
Obama had fired Carter's predecessor, Hagel, for not releasing terrorists quickly enough.
In the view of White House officials, Mr. Hagel has helped to thwart Mr. Obama’s pledge to close Guantánamo with his concerns about the security risks posed by the release of detainees. He recently pulled back from plans to repatriate four Afghans who had been approved for transfer, a decision that annoyed Ms. Rice, officials said.
White House officials pressured Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to increase the pace of detainee transfers from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, the outgoing secretary acknowledged to CNN's Barbara Starr in an interview Friday.
But the media doesn't ask why Obama alienated the military community and refused to listen to them.