Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
I have no way of knowing if this stuff is accurate or not, but I have to say I am dubious. I can't think of a better way for some general to lose his stars than authorize a course that discussed how the military could arrest the President. Did they skip the part where he is their Commander in Chief? And just who makes the determination that he has committed treason? Some ambitious general?
The Constitution sets out a procedure for removing the President and there is nothing in it about generals deciding he has committed treason. In fact, the people committing treason in the hypothetical would be the generals who authorized it.
I'm not saying I couldn't envision a scenario, like when Pinochet overthrew the marxist Allende regime in Chile, where we might want to arrest a traitorous president, even though the congress wouldn't impeach him. Let's not kid ourselves that it would be constitutional though.
Good post and I agree there is no way of knowing if this info is true. But lets take a hypothetical situation that is unmistakeably unconstitutional. For instance let's say the pres attempted to subject the US to international rule, such as the UN which would now function as the supreme law of the land. Even if the majority of Congress and even if the population backed the president, I would think that it is the duty of the military to remove him.