Posted on 02/16/2017 6:11:11 AM PST by Robe
After the disgusting political assassination of General Michael Flynn, President Trump had to find a leader who would be ready for anything.
Enter retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward.
Harward is currently a defense contractor executive, a retired United States Navy SEAL and a former Deputy Commander of the United States Central Command, under the leadership command of General James Mattis.
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“Does he require senate approval?”
LOL That is what I was going to say.............he does NOT have the job yet
I like that saying...so true too.
Trump moves quickly and I hope this gets dealt with ASAP......
BOOM! THERE’S A LOCKED FACEBOOK PAGE AT THAT LINK! WIN!
“Trump should also put ALL telephone communications for the White House and cabinet officials under the control of Mattis and DOD.”
I understand that Trump’s been told phone communications are bugged, so that would help in one way. What I worry about are the other types of bugs that were planted in critical places before Hussein left office.
Not very.. Brannon is a bit fringe for my taste. It is sheer stupidity, I believe.
Bob was my boss. I can say I always tried to support him, even though I was Army and he was Navy.
The 3 accused me of supporting Army over Bob, I said Bob was my boss, I will do what he says. If the Army asks about my Task Force decision I will tell them to refer to the Ground commander as I did not have that interaction.
Bob held things close to his chest, but I would work for him again.
A sting operation could out many people. Get a NSA snoop to intercept false but “juicy” info on a Trump admin type. If it bubbles all the way to WaPo trace it backwards firing everyone along the way.
Then there’s the Tom Clancy trick, write a long, boring report on something that a leaker would want to leak, make a minor change in a key word in each copy of the report going to a different department, and then listen for the key word in the leak. From that you can trace back to the leaker. Tyrion also did something similar in GRRM’s unfinished masterpiece (No, not the f@#$ing HBO series, the books! I hate HBO).
About a week after Trump took office a couple of senior White House IT guys were marched out the door.
It’s all starting to make sense now.
No. It is a White House job.
Good thinking... I like it...!
:)
“How smart was it giving Bannon NSC creds?”
Bannon was a US Navy Captain (O6) and an intelligence officer.
Do you believe he is a risk?
K. T. was at the presser yesterday.
Put them in a theater with random pics flashing on the screen and hook them up to a heart monitor. Fire anyone whose heart flutters or leg tingles when you put Obama on the screen.
I like the idea of firing everyone - many are Obama loyalists, and they need to go (and not just here - but in Justice, OMB, Treasury, etc.).
But someone (or several someones) need to go to jail for what happened with General Flynn. Not - repeat, NOT - because of the political fallout, but because of the Constitutional and national security implications of what happened.
First, it is utterly routine to try to intercept every possible communication in which the Russian ambassador is part (among many other people in the Russian embassy, and among many countries - he isn’t alone by a long stretch). OK, fine, so someone (or several someones) were doing their job. So far, so good. But now you introduce a conversation between said ambassador and a PRIVATE AMERICAN CITIZEN. OK, possibly we have a Logan Act violation - but that is for the FBI to investigate (and, btw, I don’t think that anyone has been prosecuted for that in about 200 years), not for a public airing. The crime here is that the identity of that PRIVATE American citizen, who’s conversation with a foreign national was revealed, was mentioned - that is an outward-looking agency that is FORBIDDEN to spy on Americans, spying on Americans. I am utterly certain that the law was violated here.
Second, and probably more important, is that the very fact that we WERE monitoring the private conversations of the Russian ambassador (among MANY other hostiles) was revealed. The Russians and everyone else that uses cell phones (i.e. EVERYONE that we spy on) now knows that we can do this, so they junked their old phones and have undoubtedly replaced them with newer and more secure ones. So we have a method of intelligence collection that has been revealed, making it forever useless to our intelligence agencies. THAT IS A CRIME, and someone (or several someones) needs to be prosecuted for that.
Oh, and btw, this is NOT at all like the supposed hacking of the DNC. First, that likely wasn’t a hacking, it was probably an inside job. But, even if it WAS hacking, and hacking by the Russians, it did not involve one of OUR government employees (otherwise known as “public servants”) violating any laws or divulging a method of intelligence collection. Besides, spilling the beans on the dirt of a political party is wholly different from spilling the beans on intelligence collection methods or having our own government violate the rights of a (then-) private U.S. citizen.
Jeff Sessions should sic the full weight of the FBI and the DOJ on whomever did this - send the bastard(s) to prison for 30 years, and see how soon someone else does this. I’m betting on “sometime after Trump leaves office.”
YAY Then he can get right to work!
It is not possible for a lover of liberty to make a case for NSA sharing raw intelligence with law enforcement agencies.
Everything NSA gathers is outside the Bill of Rights. Everything. For them to just allow access to that database for LEO is a recipe to end the republic founded on the rule of law.
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