Posted on 10/20/2016 7:21:41 AM PDT by Elderberry
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter today honored Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson with the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the department’s highest civilian honor.
Carter presented the award to Johnson, formerly the Pentagon’s top legal official, during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security headquarters where Johnson was hosting a meeting of senior DHS leaders.
“Jeh is one of the finest, most capable, hardest working public servants I have worked with,” Carter said, “From his time as a highly capable general counsel at the Pentagon to his leadership of DHS at a time of enormous homeland security challenges, Jeh has made every organization he’s joined stronger, and made our nation and our world safer.”
The Distinguished Public Service Award is the department’s highest honor for private citizens and non-career public servants. This year, Carter has presented the award to a bipartisan list of distinguished current and former officials, including former secretaries of state Madeline Albright and Henry Kissinger; former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft; and former Sen. John Warner.
“Like Jeh, each of the public servants we have honored this year has a long record of service marked by competence, wisdom and self-sacrifice,” Carter said. “Each of them embodies the very best our nation has to offer.”
As DHS secretary, Johnson leads the federal government’s third-largest department, with 22 components ranging from the U.S. Coast Guard and immigration, customs and border enforcement agencies to the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Before joining DHS in 2013, Johnson served for three years as general counsel to the Department of Defense, the department’s senior legal official. At DoD, he played a key role in several important initiatives, including the nation’s counter-terrorism efforts and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He served from 1998 to 2001 as general counsel to the Air Force, and from 1989 to 1991 as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. A native New Yorker, he worked in the private sector as an attorney at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison.
Jerks, Circle of; 1 each.
Think about this. From what I read, this is the DoD civilian equivalent of a CMOH. It is disgusting in its intent and glaring in-your-face presentation.
Bureaucrats giving awards to other bureaucrats. It’s what they do. And, heck, it only costs us 3 or 4 trillion a year, so why not?
Feh... Jeh! is a total joke.
Who could dispute the monumental military and strategic importance of the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell?" Now that's the stuff that legends are made of. An achievement for the ages. /sarc
Awarded for overseeing the invasion of America.
The Department of Homeland Security has not secured anything but a permanent Democrat majority.
(with help from Republicans like Graham and Rubio)
That’s how the game is played. Honors, awards and financial bonuses are showered on the undeserving bureaucrats by colleagues who want to glorify their empires. Most things in Washington are put on for show, not for substance.
Carter making an ash of himself.
“The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone Award”
More like Defense Distinguished Service Medal, but almost as bad, although they are pretty much always politically motivated so not held in high regard by military members, just by the denizens of the entrenched DoD bureaucracy.
Johnson, by any other name.....apropos.
They make a mockery of EVERYTHING and debase whatever they touch. Does Jeh Johnson care about another award, medal, babble or honorary title? No! Its the affront to the those brave Servicemen who daily risk everything for the Freedom of this Great Nation that is the message behind this award. A man risks his life and fights bravely against an armed enemy; he will be awarded a Commendation Medal. Johnson fights to destroy everything the serviceman believes in and he is awarded one of our highest Medals!
A sad joke...very sad for America.
Isn’t this like signing each other’s expense accounts?
Why don’t they just make the circle complete and start creating awards for each other?
Add the Barf tag to this.
Praise and honors for the guilty.
Punishment for the innocents.
President Trump is going to be very busy fumigating every gov department and agency.
Beat me to it, but I wasn’t gonna clean it up.
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