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Leaked Memo Reveals List Of Trump's Top Defense Priorities
zerohedge.com ^ | 12/21/16 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 12/21/2016 1:05:42 PM PST by ColdOne

A leaked communication between the Trump transition team's Undersecretary of Defense for policy Brian McKeon, and the Pentagon, has revealed the four biggest defense priorities for the president-elect. Among the top four items listed in the memo from are: 1) developing a strategy to defeat/destroy ISIS; 2) build a strong defense by eliminating budget caps/the sequester, 3) develop a comprehensive cyber strategy, and 4) eliminate wasteful spending by finding greater efficiencies.

The list was communicated to McKeon by Mira Ricardel, one of the leaders of Trump’s Pentagon transition team, according to the memo obtained by Foreign Policy magazine and published Tuesday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defensespending; fakenews; trumpagenda; trumpdod; trumptransition

1 posted on 12/21/2016 1:05:42 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

I don’t believe a word of this ‘leaked’ crap...

More ‘fake news’ crap!!!


2 posted on 12/21/2016 1:11:38 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Must have come from the russians


3 posted on 12/21/2016 1:12:36 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Those darn Russians!!! ROFL!!!


4 posted on 12/21/2016 1:14:12 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: ColdOne

Fake news


5 posted on 12/21/2016 1:21:22 PM PST by MagillaX
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To: ColdOne

Must’ve been hacked by the DNC..................


6 posted on 12/21/2016 1:25:46 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: HarleyLady27

Well who knows really?

If it’s leaked and they are trying to damage DJT they surely failed. If it’s made up and they are trying to damage DJT they surely failed again. It seems generic enough.

From what I’ve seen of DJT he is just devious enough to air this out in front of certain people to see who he can trust. Mind you I have no problem with that approach considering the hostility he faces.


7 posted on 12/21/2016 1:26:00 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Or.... maybe he feels that if he let’s this out, the DOD will start doing those things on their own, in order to keep their jobs once he is inaugurated.


8 posted on 12/21/2016 1:40:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

One last chance to save yourself....


9 posted on 12/21/2016 1:45:52 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: HarleyLady27
Yep. "Leaked", "sources", "someone said", it all little girl gossip until a factual source emerges. What's wrong with this nation? I mean, it seems everyone is either untrustworthy and tells confidential information or they are too cowardly to say what they know.


10 posted on 12/21/2016 1:57:23 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: ColdOne

I am going to say this,during a Trump presidency anything “leaked” is either deliberate or faked, never by accident.

If its deliberate i’m making no comments. Its going to be a nonstop war of the MSM with fake news against Trump.

I hope there is a new trend, reporters being reporters and not drama drag queens.


11 posted on 12/21/2016 2:00:22 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: ColdOne

Ok. . .so who was the leaker and the leakee? I am praying for the new administration to be totally honest with the public and to keep sensitive and/or top secret communication just that. What we don’t need is a barrage of leaks true or untrue all the time.


12 posted on 12/21/2016 2:26:04 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: ColdOne

Was this an approved leak? Leaks are BS without full documentation now that False News is the order of the day in the Media.


13 posted on 12/21/2016 2:59:53 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: ColdOne

Start by eliminating Base Line Budgeting and replacing in with Zero Base Budgeting every single year.


14 posted on 12/21/2016 4:24:22 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Steamburg
Leaks are BS without

full documentation

now that False News is the order of the day in the Media.

Can't be stressed enough and needs to be communicated to the media as much and as loudly as possible.

15 posted on 12/21/2016 4:42:02 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: ColdOne

The “leaked” a document on the things that Trump promised in countless campaign speeches?

Must have been the russians!


16 posted on 12/21/2016 4:45:13 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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