This investigative reporter reveals some conflicts between the Obama administration and the military establishment. However, I take issue with his framing of this as a Constitutional conflict between the Executive and the military establishment.
The ruling class truly rules regardless of a Constitution and rules of law. Obama and military figures are mostly employees of the ruling class. Obama was hired because of his excellent rhetorical skills and populist type image. Mainstream media merely does its part by going along with this political stage play with its reporting of Obama's policies that tries to cover over any contradictions with reality.
In interviews in recent weeks, Gen. David Petraeus has been taking a line on what will happen in mid-2011 that challenges President Barack Obama’s intention to begin a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by that date. This new Petraeus line is the culmination of a brazen bait and switch maneuver on the war by the most powerful military commander in modern U.S. history.