Posted on 03/05/2015 1:31:49 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
Who really is Mark W. Lippert?
OBAMA used Senate Office to influence Kenyan Presidential Elections...
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MCCAIN GRILLS LIPPERT
The Pentagon’s nominee for assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs is under fire from Sen. John McCain, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Mr. McCain wrote to Mark Lippert on Nov. 30 to pose very specific questions about whether Mr. Lippert was behind a series of press leaks that sought to undermine retired Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones when he was President Obama’s national security adviser.
Mr. McCain wrote that a 2010 book by journalist Bob Woodward discussed Mr. Lippert’s relations with Gen. Jones and “offers a disturbing portrayal of your actions that could be described as arrogant and disloyal.”
In the letter, Mr. McCain asked if Mr. Lippert and another National Security Council colleague, Denis McDonough, were known by Gen. Jones as “the Politburo,” “the Mafia” and “the water bugs” because they had become major obstacles to “deciding on coherent national security policy.”
Mr. Lippert also was asked whether he managed to “cut off” Gen. Jones from consulting with the president during a 2009 trip to Europe.
The letter also stated that Gen. Jones had talked to Mr. Obama about firing Mr. Lippert for “rank insubordination” and that the president had agreed to move Mr. Lippert out of the NSC.
Additionally, Mr. McCain asked Mr. Lippert to explain whether he “shut out” a top White House military adviser, Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, from key Iraq policy discussions because he distrusted him.
When asked about his clashes with Gen. Jones at a Nov. 17 committee hearing, Mr. Lippert responded, “I did not leak to the press about General Jones.”
But he would not answer questions from Mr. McCain about whether his departure from the NSC staff was the result of differences with Gen. Jones.
“Gen. Jones and I worked collaboratively on many issues, and I’m proud of what we accomplished, but there was also times we disagreed, but I knew General Jones was the boss,” Mr. Lippert said.
http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/ring120811.html
The attack comes amid growing anti-U.S. protests here over comments made last week by State Department official Wendy Sherman.
Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, angered many South Koreans with comments that seemed to tell the country to give up hardline nationalist policies toward North Korea and to seek closer ties with its neighbor.
The South Korean government issued a formal diplomatic protest to the State Department over the remarks, sources said.
“Nationalist feelings can still be exploited, and it’s not hard for a political leader anywhere to earn cheap applause by vilifying a former enemy,” Sherman said Friday in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment, a think tank.
“But such provocations produce paralysis, not progress,” she said. “To move ahead, we have to see beyond what was to envision what might be. And in thinking about the possibilities, we don’t have to look far for a cautionary tale of a country that has allowed itself to be trapped by its own history.”
The comments were interpreted by critics here as criticism of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s hardline stance against North Korea.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-ambassador-injured-in-attack/
Lippert was Obama’s point man on denying our ally Taiwan fighter planes mandated under the Taiwan Relations Act
http://test.weeklystandard.com/blogs/tough-time-explaining-taiwan-policy_609149.html#
On Purim!
Hell, my GAYDAR was going off.
If you look at the docs in O.P., it appears that Red China was picking up the tab on this guy’s travel back in the day he was working for then Sen. Obama...
But, if he, was he ought to be very embarrassed in front of his SEAL peers that he allowed someone to carve up his face.
I just read that he said he was never in any danger while he was an intel. officer for the Seals...and yet, somehow, he earned a Bronze Star...
PS Lippert was transferred into the Seals by Obama because of he was being accused of rank insubordination against Gen. Jones, Obama’s national security adviser at the time...
“In the letter, Mr. McCain asked if Mr. Lippert and another National Security Council colleague, Denis McDonough, were known by Gen. Jones as “the Politburo,” “the Mafia” and “the water bugs” because they had become major obstacles to “deciding on coherent national security policy.”’
From article in reply number 2.
You can bet it was a political Bronze Star. And one wonders how much Lippert had to do with what led to current mess in Iraq (no status of forces agreement, etc):
Mark Lippert: Barack Obama’s Man in Iraq
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“He won’t say where he went in Iraq or precisely what he did there, except that he worked with Navy SEALs. But he readily admits he faced little physical danger: “I had no mishaps, other than cutting my hand on a cracked crab in the dining hall.”
http://www.newsweek.com/mark-lippert-barack-obamas-man-iraq-92755
Will speculate that transfer means only that he was attached.
Will also speculate Obama had trouble dealing with Gen. Jones and the transfer was a reward. It is easy to imagine there are those who would like to undo this guy; McCain is probably on that list.
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