Posted on 01/30/2017 10:54:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As a point of law, Mattis has no authority himself under Trump’s order to grant visas. That falls to DHS and the State Department under section 3(g), although it would be … weird if any of the Pentagon’s recommendations for exemptions from the travel ban were to be turned down.
Mattis reportedly wasn’t consulted while the order was being drafted, which may help explain his (alleged) annoyance at it. Two thumbs up for the crack Trump political team in cutting the single most respected member of their natsec team out of the policymaking process. I wonder how many more Bannon-style power plays like that it’ll take before Mattis decides he has better things to do with the rest of his life than serve as a front man for actions on which he has no input.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, blindsided by President Trump’s travel ban that includes U.S. allies in Iraq, is submitting to the White House a list of Iraqis who have helped the U.S. military so they can be considered for exemptions to the temporary immigration freeze affecting seven majority-Muslim countries.
Some officials say Mattis was stung by the blistering criticism leveled by former military commanders and lawmakers who said the blanket ban risked the lives of Iraqi interpreters and others who have supported the U.S. military at great personal risk…
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mattis was displeased with how the ban was implemented, and with the lack of consultation with the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security.
If it cheers him up any, the first snap poll after the order was issued shows majority support for the key principles in the order:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a temporary ban on refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen until the federal government approves its ability to screen out potential terrorists from coming here. Thirty-three percent (33%) are opposed, while 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Similarly, 56% favor a temporary block on visas prohibiting residents of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the United States until the government approves its ability to screen for likely terrorists. Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose this temporary ban, and 11% are undecided.
If not for the initial cock-up barring green-card holders, which has now been remedied by an order from John Kelly, the left would have had less ammo to try to turn this into a galvanizing outrage. I think the temporary ban on refugees is unfortunate since they’re already closely screened and the U.S. accepts far, far fewer than Europe does, but the numbers don’t lie. The public is okay with excluding them, at least temporarily, on the principle of “better safe than sorry.” It’ll be an interesting test of strength between Trump and the media, which are in saturation mode trying to turn the public against Trump’s action (replete with disinformation about it being a “Muslim ban,” etc), to see if the polling starts to turn negative on his order in the coming days.
Here’s Seth Moulton, an Iraq veteran turned Democratic congressman who knows Mattis, who claims that there’s “no way in hell” he would support the order.
If Mattis had any issues, it wasn't the order itself, it was getting involved to settle any minor glitches that may relate to his area.
When the make a statement, then a few lines later, encapsulate the word "alleged" for the same statement, you know they are purposely trying to misinform folks.
We will have a more serene next four / eight years if we ignore anonymously-sourced anti-Trump articles. We have absolutely zero reason to believe this article. BTW, we mostly pulled out of Iraq years ago so what have these endangered interpreters being doing since then?
When the author references CNN and NYTimes as the primary sources, I doubt that this article is well-grounded in reality.
and then I have to spend a fortune on those darn nieces and nephews :)
Funny you wrote that. Who needs immigration??
You as an Italian Catholic and me as an Irish Catholic our families can really turn it out.
My Mom and Dad turned out 6 who then turned out 14 who then turn out 10 more, and they are just getting started. So I ask again, Who needs immigration? When I was a kid, it was us that did all those jobs that people hire illegals to do. Yes, when I was a kid, jobs were a dime a dozen. Let’s see, jobs I’ve done as a kid that are now all done by illegals, cut grass, rake leaves, shovel, clean out roof gutters and street gutters, wash dishes, bus tables. I’ve done every single job that today sadly no American kid either doesn’t want to do or has been bumped out by illegals.
Another funny thing is this. And it wasn’t made to have my brother lose a customer, well not really a customer because my mom doesn’t pay my brother, but here goes...
My brother does his own landscaping thing up north there and said to me once, (well here’s some back story 1st, my dad said to me, you are big enough so these jobs are all yours now, taking out the trash, the yard, the painting mom needed) Well, when my younger brother, the landscaper got big enough, I said, yo, bro you big enough now, these are your jobs, then off to the military, voluntarily I went. One day recently, now 40+ years later, last year actually my brother said, “yo dude you gave me this job and I’m still doing it.”
It came up because last year it snowed and a neighborhood kid knocked on her door and asked to shovel. She said, “Nah. my son’s coming over (my 60 yr old landscaping brother) Believe it or not, he was swomped with commercial accounts and gonna be real real late getting to mom’s house.
It was the first time in over a decade that a kid knocked on my mom’s door to shovel, I said, “Mom you should have hired him.”
“Mattis reportedly wasn’t consulted”
This from the NY Times, and their info from an (alleged) anonymous insider.
I seriously doubt Trump would do something like this without consulting Secretary of Defense.
Is there someone in the Oval Office loop who doesn’t have DJT’s and America’s best interests in mind — who would put out lies? IIRC, KAC said there’s a mole or a leak there.
I always thought it was Ericka Erickson.
Is there an Erick also?
Are Erick and Ericka and allahpundit the same three people?
sorry... could only get thru 4 sentences. Ill just quietly lurk comments...
Morning Joe (plus NBC et al.) now have a laundry list of cabinet appointees and Republicans who would be tolerated by the media who were included out and “said to be” insulted, pissed, outraged, grieving, distraught...
This, of course, has ENRAGED!!! MJ.
If this list of worthies had been “consulted”, any guess as to how long it would be before this action sprung a leak? And how long after that - that the media could get their ground troops rolled out and into the lights?
RE: Thanks fer the fake news, brah.
How do you know the news is fake? Because you don’t like it?
RE: it’s fake news from a trump hate media website.
I won’t call Hotair a Trump hate website. I see their postings and I find it to be in general, quite supportive of Trump’s policies.
But just because one supports the President does not mean that one blindly only report things that are flattering to him.
“How do you know the news is fake? Because you don’t like it?”
NO, because it is all unsourced!
Only an idiot like SeekAndFind ignores that all the sources cited were “anonymous” and used words like “maybe” and “could have” and “likely”; all of which indicate opinions and a lack of factual basis!
AllahPundit can’t help himself, can he? Has anyone ever seen him and Erick Erickson in the same room at the same time?
“Allahpundit” was exposed by WikiLeaks as a Josh Barro, DNC-paid concern troll! Always a #NeverTrumper!
Pay no attention to that troll behind the curtain!
Or Larry Mondello?
Because you posted it.
Get out of here.
RE: Because you posted it.
Get out of here
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That’s the way you reason? No counter evidence, no explanation as to why the news is false?
Yeah right, it’s false because you said so.
Did he ever get over there?
RE: Only an idiot like SeekAndFind ignores that all the sources cited were “anonymous” and used words like “maybe” and “could have” and “likely”;
SOURCE:
EXCERPT:
At least three top national security officials — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Rex Tillerson, who is awaiting confirmation to lead the State Department — have told associates they were not aware of details of the directive until around the time Trump signed it. Leading intelligence officials were also left largely in the dark, according to U.S. officials.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said that despite White House assurances that congressional leaders were consulted, he learned about the order in the media.
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Where are the words “likely”, “maybe” or “could have” in the above report?
This story is all lies and speculation when it is not.
Why bother any more.
I think Mattis would actually kick his ass for this if they got in the same room.
The government already OWNS PBS. Start putting it to better use.
I would love to see “The Newt Gingrich Review and Comment on the News” every week
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