[RoosterRedux]

Ping

[DarthVader]

No way on Petraeus.

[clee1]

What happened to Flynn???

[nathanbedford]

A recommendation from Secretary of Defense James Mattis carries real weight both because of the reputation of General Mattis and because the general was in a position as superior officer to evaluate the performance of Harward while they both served.

On the other hand, it might not be a good thing to have the National Security Advisor beholden to the Secretary of Defense for his appointment because the National Security Advisor must act both as a gatekeeper and an advisor concerning the clamor and claims of the huge defense establishment.

For example, he cannot reflexively favor the position of the Defense Department over the intelligence community or even the State Department if the State Department is right and those other two agencies are wrong, as inconceivable as that might seem to us today.

In any event it is vital that the National Security Advisor have the confidence of all the competing interests for the president's ear that the gatekeeper is unbiased.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I can vouch for Bob, he was my boss in Task Force K-Bar (Afghanistan 2002). Even though he was a Navy Captain he was referred to as the Commodore. The unit was awarded a presidential unit citation by George the 2nd.

He kept a lot of things close to his chest, not a bad trait in the snake pit he may enter.

[GailA]

Is Flynn resigning or being fired, getting conflicting news.
Yesterday it was resigning, today hold your horses.

Report: No Expectations Flynn Will Be Fired
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/02/13/report-no-expectations-flynn-will-be-fired-n2285257

[CincyRichieRich]

Forgive my lack of informativeness, I have seen some say Preibus is on the ropes...why?

Rush firmly believes he is not. Please fill me in on both sides of the argument.thanks

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I thought when I heard the news of Flynn’s resignation that with an adult now in the Oval Office there would be no problem whatever finding an excellent replacement to fill that important position.

[csvset]

Go with Harward

[Flick Lives]

A senior administration official added that if Howard is the choice to replace Flynn, he could be in place by the end of the week.

---

Howard. Harward. The MSM has forgotten about proofreading; one of those old-school ideas like factual reporting.

[BuffaloJack]

Good.
Flynn didn’t have the “Right Stuff”.
Everyone screws up sometimes. But not everyone quits.
Flynn might be an honorable and qualified man, but he caved too easily.
I’m hoping Bob Harward gets the post.

Here’s what my criteria for this position and a Navy SEAL will have these qualities.

WORK ETHIC
1) Never give up.
2) There are times when the only choices you have are bad ones. You will still need to choose and proceed.
3) The quickest way is the best.
4) Always put out more effort than anyone else.
5) Pull your weight and do your share. Earn what you want.
6) Do not coddle the lazy. Darwin and Murphy will deal with them.
7) There is no such thing as luck. You make your own luck.
8) Own your mistakes, you can never advance if you make excuses or blame others.
9) Everyone screws up. You are no different. Own it and continue the job.
10) Learn loyalty, don’t give it blindly but loyalty and trust go hand in hand.
11) Finish all jobs.
12) You have to be willing to accept loss, so accept it when it happens.
13) You have to do what is needed. You don’t get to pick what you have to do.
14) You do what you have to do to get what you want or need.
15) The important things are always simple.
16) The simple things are always hard.
17) If it’s stupid & it works, it ain’t stupid.
18) Keep it simple.
19) Adapt.
20) Adapt to overcome.
21) It’s better to seek forgiveness than ask permission.
22) There is no such thing as coincidence.
23) Tell the truth about everything, even if it involves a disagreeable, embarrassing or undesired outcome.
24) If you are the leader, trust your subordinates to do their job and do not micromanage them. They know how to get the job done; let them, even though it isn’t the way you would have done it yourself.
25) If a decision is required, then make one. Do not procrastinate a difficult decision.
26) Always strive to win. Another name for “second place” is “first loser”.
27) Fight for what you stand for. If you don’t fight for the things you stand for, then you really don’t stand for them.

CONDUCT
1) Chivalry is not dead, it’s a Warriors’ Code (and only practiced by warriors).
2) Conduct yourself with honor and be honest; honor and honesty go hand in hand, so defend your honor and your dignity.
3) Never leave a man behind.
4) Never sacrifice anyone for yourself, if you do, you lose your honor.
5) Never screw over your buddy or co-worker, another means of losing your honor.
6) Never put a buddy or coworker into an embarrassing situation.
7) Never trust anyone with a history of screwing his buddies over (no matter how nice they seem).
8) Always tell the truth. The truth is hard enough to remember without having to remember the details of some tall tale.
9) Never lie to someone who trusts you; and never trust someone who has ever lied to you.
10) Never ask someone to lie for you, no matter how important it is to you, they will slip up eventually, because people are not hardwired to lie for someone else.
11) Never ask someone else to lie for you, no matter how small the lie. You will permanently lose the respect of the person you are asking to lie for you.
12) If you absolutely have to lie, then, be very specific or you won’t remember it.
13) Family first: you do what you have to for family (no matter what it is, how expensive or how dangerous).
14) Treat everyone the same.
15) Never start trouble and never turn your cheek. You may not have started it, but you will end it.
16) Have a plan.
17) Perfect plans aren’t.
18) Have a back-up plan, because the first plan one won’t work
19) Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
20) Don’t be the asshole in the group and criticize no one.
21) The word coward should be the most reviled word you know.

[txrefugee]

Who will replace the intel operative who leaked information from intercepted phone calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the Washington Post? That person is a danger to national security and should be prosecuted. Everyone should see the interview that Maria Bartiromo had with Dennis Kuchinich on her morning show today. Surprisingly, he nailed it.

[FreedomPoster]

My question is, who would most make the Left say “Oh crap! We should have kept Flynn!”?

I’m sure they’re all excellent candidates.

[kenmcg]

Suggest the POTUS speak with Gen. Keane again.

[KeyLargo]

“Early in this race, Donald Trump laid down a marker on foreign policy against the Iraq War and foreign adventurism in general, and a lot of the neocons in Washington didn’t like it—at all. And still don’t like it.

Laura Ingraham

---

BREITBART
Charlie Spiering1
4 Feb 201741

Former Reagan and Bush official Elliott Abrams is deeply upset with White House senior aide Steve Bannon, after he was passed over for a job in Donald Trump’s administration.

Abrams was rumored to join the State Department as a deputy to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but was ultimately rejected.

“The only person on the White House staff that I know was opposed to my being hired was Steve Bannon so that’s my guess,” Abrams told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an interview on Monday. “It’s a guess.”

Abrams didn’t mention that Sen. Rand Paul was opposed to his appointment, because of his neocon views.

“In a country of 300 million people, surely there are reasonable foreign policy experts who have not been convicted of deceiving Congress and actually share the President’s foreign policy views,” Paul wrote in an op-ed.

Abrams also ignored his role in the Iran-Contra scandal under Reagan, pleading guilty to misdemeanors in the scandal. George H.W. Bush pardoned Abrams at the end of his administration. He also didn’t mention his dogged support for the war in Iraq, something Trump remains opposed to.

At the end, Abrams had hoped that although he criticized Trump during the election, the president would allow him to join the administration.

Abrams authored an article the Weekly Standard with the headline “When you can’t stand your candidate,” calling for the Never Trump movement to challenge him in the convention. He also described Trump as a candidate was “someone who cannot win and should not be president of the United States.”

“Do not allow the Republican convention to be a coronation wherein Trump and Trumpism are unchallenged,” he wrote.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/14/elliott-abrams-blames-steve-bannon-for-blocking-job-in-trump-administration/

[JimRed]

Letting the enemy know your likely appointees is a mistake. It gives them time to dig up (or create) dirt on them. Just announce the appointment, with all the pluses and any non-disqualifying minuses you can find, then shove them through.

It goes without saying that if there are disqualifying minuses there should be no appointment.