WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND THE EFFORT TO REMOVE CUOMO?

This article was provided by Judge John H. Wilson, (ret.) who served on the bench in New York State

Recently, a series of allegations have been made against New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. According to CNBC, “Multiple women, including three former aides, say Cuomo sexually harassed them, while a fourth woman, who currently works for Cuomo, reportedly has told supervisors that he aggressively groped her under her blouse in the governor’s mansion. Other women have said he touched them and spoke to them in ways that made them feel uncomfortable.”

As a result of these allegations, “(a) majority of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York districts…called on Cuomo to resign. Those calls came a day after nearly 60 Democratic members of the state legislature demanded the governor quit, and after the Democratic Assembly speaker authorized an impeachment investigation into Cuomo’s conduct toward women and a cover-up of data related to Covid nursing home deaths.”

To date, the Governor has rejected these calls to resign his office. “’I’m not going to resign,’ Cuomo said. ‘I was not elected by the politicians, I was elected by the people.’”

Whether Cuomo resigns, or is impeached, or decides not to run again in 2022, or loses to a primary challenger, the end result will surely be the same – Andrew Cuomo is not long for the office of Governor.

This is a stunning reversal of fortune for Governor Cuomo. In November of 2020, Cuomo’s Pandemic update news conferences were so well regarded, he received an Emmy Award. As reported by Fox News, “Cuomo received the Founders Award ‘in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world’ at the International Emmy Awards ceremony on Nov. 23, and liberal celebrities like Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, and Robert de Niro heaped praise upon him in a pre-recorded video. The briefings ‘gave us hope, gave us clarity, gave us the truth, and gave us something we were not getting from Washington: leadership,’ comedian Billy Crystal said. ‘You are the epitome of New York tough.’”

Capitalizing on that “New York tough” image, Governor Cuomo also wrote a book – American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Described by Barnes and Noble as a “New York Times Bestseller,” “Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.”

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Since the onslaught of allegations against Cuomo, according to the New York Times, “(t)he publisher of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s book on his leadership during the pandemic said it had stopped promoting the title…(s)ales of the book…had already slowed severely as the governor found himself embroiled in overlapping crises of his own making, including a drumbeat of accusations about his inappropriate behavior toward younger women and his aides’ manipulation of nursing home data. Gillian Blake of Crown Publishing Group said…there were ‘no plans’ to reprint Mr. Cuomo’s book or to reissue it in paperback…”

Further, “as the governor’s reputation begins to crumble and his COVID-19 response is accused of including manipulating data to conceal tragic deaths, some are calling for Cuomo to be stripped of the entertainment honor. Democratic New York City Councilman Robert Holden said that accusations against the embattled governor should show the Emmy organization he no longer deserves the honor…(l)osing the Founders Award amid controversy is not without precedent. Actor Kevin Spacey was stripped of the honor in 2017 after being accused of trying to seduce actor Anthony Rapp.”

This fall from grace is remarkable, particularly when one considers the adulation Cuomo once received not so very long ago. In May of 2020, the aptly named Kristine Looney wrote an article titled “Why Cuomo will be President in 2024,” fawning uncontrollably over her idol with statements like this; “Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has been our messiah of governance, our guiding light…The foundation of leadership is built upon integrity, clarity, composure, guidance, action, inclusivity and reassurance. As this foundation is so desperately lacking in the (Trump) White House, Andrew Cuomo has provided some much-needed relief…Citizens across the nation have spread their adoration via social media and insist Cuomo begin campaigning for a 2020 presidency.”

10 months later? “Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, who represent New York in the U.S. Senate, have called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign as he faces multiple sexual harassment allegations and a scandal stemming from his handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Schumer and Gillibrand, both Democrats, are the most prominent officials yet to call for Cuomo’s resignation. Their statement added further momentum to a growing tide of Cuomo’s fellow Democrats urging him to leave office.”

The report concludes tomorrow

Photo: Corona virus (NY State website)

Quick Analysis

Part 2: America’s Strategic Posture

As we noted in Part 1, the dramatically deteriorating national security picture for the United States and its allies prompted a review of “America’s Strategic Posture.” We present Part 2, reviewing key strategic points. STRATEGY To achieve the most effective strategy for stability in light of the 2027-2035 threat environment, the Commission identifies three necessary changes: ` The United States must develop and effectively implement a truly integrated, whole-of-government strategy to address the 2027-2035 threat environment. The objectives of U.S. strategy must include effective deterrence and defeat of simultaneous Russian and Chinese aggression in Europe and Asia using conventional forces. If the United States and its Allies and partners do not field sufficient conventional forces to achieve this objective, U.S. strategy would need to be altered to increase reliance on nuclear weapons to deter or counter opportunistic or collaborative aggression in the other theater. ` The size and composition of the nuclear force must account for the possibility of combined aggression from Russia and China. U.S. strategy should no longer treat China’s nuclear forces as a “lesser included” threat. The United States needs a nuclear posture capable of simultaneously deterring both countries. The Commission recommends the United States maintain a nuclear strategy consistent with the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), based on six fundamental tenets—assured second strike, flexible response, tailored deterrence, extended deterrence and assurance, calculated ambiguity in declaratory policy, hedge against risk—and apply these tenets to address the 2027-2035 threat. STRATEGIC POSTURE In the context of a strategic posture deploying both conventional and nuclear capability, the Commission believes the traditional role of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense strategy remains valid and of continuing importance: deterrence of adversaries; assurance of Allies; achieving U.S. objectives should deterrence fail; and hedging against adverse events. The Commission recommends fully and urgently executing the U.S. nuclear modernization Program of Record (POR), which includes replacement of all U.S. nuclear delivery systems, modernization of their warheads, comprehensive modernization of U.S. nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3), and recapitalizing the nuclear enterprise infrastructure at the DOD and DOE/NNSA. The current modernization program should be supplemented to ensure U.S. nuclear strategy remains effective in a two-nuclear-peer environment. Comprehensive risk-mitigating actions across U.S. nuclear forces must be executed to ensure that delays in modernization programs or early age-out of currently deployed systems do not result in militarily significant shortfalls in deployed nuclear capability. The U.S. strategic nuclear force posture should be modified to: ` Address the larger number of targets due to the growing Chinese nuclear threat. ` Address the possibility that China will field large-scale, counterforce-capable missile forces that pose a threat to U.S. strategic nuclear forces on par with the threat Russia poses to those forces today. ` Assure the United States continues to avoid reliance on executing Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launch under attack to retain an effective deterrent. ` Account for advances in Russian and Chinese integrated air and missile defenses (IAMD). The U.S. theater nuclear force posture should be urgently modified to: ` Provide the President a range of militarily effective nuclear response options to deter or counter Russian or Chinese limited nuclear use in theater. ` Address the need for U.S. theater nuclear forces deployed or based in the Asia-Pacific theater. ` Compensate for any shortfall in U.S. and allied non-nuclear capabilities in a sequential or simultaneous two-theater conflict against Russia and China. ` Address advances in Russian and Chinese IAMD. NUCLEAR SECURITY ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION The Commission recommends the DOD and DOE/NNSA strategic infrastructure be expanded to have sufficient capacity to: ` Meet the capability and schedule requirements of the current nuclear modernization POR and the requirements of the force posture modifications recommended by the Commission in time to address the two-peer threat. ` Provide an effective hedge against four forms of risk: technical failure of a warhead or delivery system, programmatic delays, operational loss of delivery systems, and further deterioration of the geopolitical environment. ` Flex to respond to emerging requirements in a timely fashion. To support the proposed strategy, the Commission recommends Congress fund an overhaul and expansion of the capacity of the U.S. nuclear weapons defense industrial base and the DOE/NNSA nuclear security enterprise, including weapons science, design, and production infrastructure. Specifically: ` Congress should fund the full range of NNSA’s recapitalization efforts, such as pit production and all operations related to critical materials. ` Congress should forge and sustain bipartisan consensus and year-to-year funding stability to enable the defense industry to respond to innovative DOD contracting approaches and invest with more certainty. ` Congress should enact annual DOD and DOE authorization and appropriation bills before the beginning of each fiscal year. ` Congress should place the purview of all “050” programs (President’s Budget line item for “national security”) that are in NNSA under Defense appropriations subcommittees (House Appropriations Committee-Defense (HAC-D), Senate Appropriations Committee Defense (SAC-D). ` Cabinet Secretaries, working with states and union leaders, should establish and increase the technical education and vocational training programs required to create the nation’s necessary skilled-trades workforce for the nuclear enterprise. The Commission recommends a number of specific actions to expand the capacity and effectiveness of the nation’s infrastructure and supply chain for its strategic capabilities. The Report concludes tomorrow Photo: Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, speaks with members from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as well as industry leaders at the NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters on Peterson Space Force Base, Colo.(DoD)