Posted on 05/26/2017 6:05:06 AM PDT by markomalley
When Senator Lindsey Graham’s long-time legislative assistant Virginia Boney, who specialized in healthcare legislation, was hired to be a legislative affairs chief for the National Security Council, more than a few heads turned. Boney, who is anti-Trump, has no meaningful national security experience. She was also hired instead of several veterans who had applied for the position.
“McMaster took her in exchange for Lindsey’s and McCain’s support,” one source with knowledge of the deal told me. Several others confirmed this assessment, noting Boney is completely unqualified to be at NSC.
Before working at NSC, Boney was, Deputy Director of Appropriations and Projects for Senator Graham. She specialized in healthcare policy and reform.
Multiple sources on Capital Hill have told me that if they want to know what President Donald Trump is doing, they talk to Boney, because, “She loves to talk about how important and plugged in she is.”
Many of the leaks about Trump have come from Congressional members and staff via Boney, who is also close with Senator John McCain.
Boney’s betrayal of trust is what we’ve come to expect from the Trump White House where, according to the running joke, “The only way you can get hired is if you’ve Tweeted #NeverTrump.”
Developing…
The government is run by lobbyists.
The government employees are simply paper-pushers. They don’t need to know anything about their area of responsibility. In fact, job knowledge may be seen as a detriment because the bureaucrat may have “ideas” and may ask uncomfortable questions of the lobbyists. That would be ... awkward.
If you want to find the grand architect behind all of the anti Trump leaking, look at Lindsey’s Master John McCain.
John McCain is the most infantile, petty ego driver narcissist in DC. Trump winning the Presidency when he lost is seen in McCain’s demented pathetic little mind as a personal insult that must be avenged. The same things McCain did to sabotage Bush, he is now trying, on steroids, against Trump.
That’s what you get by rewarding your enemies.
The government is run by lobbyists.
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And contractors who do most of the real work inside the agencies. Pull away contractor support and the government would collapse. Its really amazing how much the government totally relies on its contractor workforce.
Douglas Valentine was researching a book on the Phoenix Program in Vietnam a couple decades back. In doing this he interviewed several high ranking CIA officers including William Colby, head of the Phoenix Program and later CIA director. The PP was the CIAs war on civilians in Vietnam, and it was very brutal.
In one of his last interviews for the book, he was offered a job in Washington as an assistant to someone in Congress. His job would be to research for bills or whatever but the CIA would feed him information and tell him what to report back. This was in the 80s and the job paid (and it was with no prior work experience having just graduated college) about 90k. He turned it down.
The CIA has been doing this sort of thing, filling DC with basically spies (the President doesn’t control the CIA, but someone does) since the 50s. Col L Fletcher Prouty said the same thing in the 60s and it goes on today.
This is getting old. When Sherman Adams was President Eisenhower's chief of staff, his refusal to hire conservatives and loyal Republicans who had worked their hearts out for the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket was legendary. And during his presidency, Nixon retained a lot of Democrat holdovers.
Why can't Republicans do like Democrat presidents and clean house once they get in?
Placing people as “moles” is an old bureaucratic tactic. In Washington, information is power. Naturally, politicians would love to have an inside informer or two to keep them abreast of things so this story makes complete sense.
If Trump wants to catch the mole, he’ll have to bait the trap.
Why can’t Republicans do like Democrat presidents and clean house once they get in?
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Because most Republicans are weak, clueless and unprincipled.
When one agrees to have traitors in one’s organization in return for support from other traitors, doesn’t that make one a traitor as well?
Republicans are, of course, every bit as corrupt as Democrats. By what logic should we expect Republicans to avert the very corruption that is foundational to both the Democrat and the Republican parties?
Ike did not want Nixon as his VEEP. He wanted Theodore McKeldin who presented both inaugural addresses for Eisenhower. Eisenhower knew him as a man of deep moral conviction and a truly patriotic American. Nixon was a made man, the spawn of political corruption. The boys in the backroom demanded Nixon as VEEP as their condition for promoting Ike.
It reads like the ‘support’ is for his appointment?
Simple. After he’s appointed fire her.
Because they all make up the same party, the party of The Establishment.
They all serve one god, the god of communism. None are anything but "The Swamp"
The President can't do it alone and the 3% are all talk, bluster and full of bull dung!
After bowing, The Establishment offered barak a meal, calling "here boys".
Does that make me "amazing"?
Please tell my grandkids!
Who killed Jack Kennedy?
Bush league investigation.
Does that make me “amazing”?
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Actually, yes because you have real skills and produce real work. You go to work everyday and meet all the contractual deadlines and deliverables. Your work is honest and honorable. You produce while the bureaucrats play politics and feather their nests.
Your grandkids should indeed be very proud of your accomplishments and contributions.
I’m sure that’s just how it was presented.
Graham to Mcmaster: As one traitor to another, I’ve got this traitorous mole I’d like you to place in a sensitive position.
Mcmaster: Sounds good—you can never have too many traitors!
“That’s what you get by rewarding your enemies.”
Amen.
That’s hilarious :D
The "getting to work everyday" is the part I'm most proud of, given the traffic in D.C. area.
A lot of the "technical" government employees, engineers, programmers, etc., have real skills and work hard, as well. It's the leadership at all levels where the problem lies.
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