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White House Pondering Shrinking the NSC, Starting With Firing the Pudgy Fat-Ass "Lieutenant Colonel" Vindman
Ace of Spades HQ ^ | 2/7/2020 | Ace

Posted on 02/07/2020 9:27:39 AM PST by RightGeek

White House Pondering Shrinking the NSC, Starting With Firing the Pudgy Fat-Ass "Lieutenant Colonel" Vindman

This article starts off all right...

The White House is reportedly weighing options to dismiss Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council (NSC) in an effort to shrink its foreign policy bureaucracy, a report said.

Bloomberg reported that the White House plans to frame it as part of an NSC staff downsizing, not a retaliation.

Then the article starts spinning for #The Resistance:

Vindman had drawn applause from spectators during his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee -- after expressing his love for America when asked how he overcame his fear of retaliation.

"Congressman, because this is America. This is the country I have served and defended, that all of my brothers have served. And here, right matters," Vindman said. "I knew I was assuming a lot of risk. [My father] deeply worried about [my testimony]. Because in his context, it was the ultimate risk."

So, you may be wondering: Which leftwing outfit is pumping out that weapons-grade spin? CNN? MSNBC?

Nope -- FoxNews. "The Fair and Balanced alternative." The "conservative-leaning" news network.

The same network that just leaked an internal report from their "Brain Room" savaging their own contributor John Solomon and claiming there's nothing at all to his Ukraine reporting and that Joe Biden is totally innocent and framed by RUSSIANS.

Strange -- that sounds a lot like CNN!

Fox News' own research team has warned colleagues not to trust some of the network’s top commentators’ claims about Ukraine.

An internal Fox News research briefing book obtained by The Daily Beast openly questions Fox News contributor John Solomon’s credibility, accusing him of playing an "indispensable role" in a Ukrainian "disinformation campaign."

I very much assume that "has been obtained" means "was leaked to us from one of the leftwingers in the Fox brass."

The document also accuses frequent Fox News guest Rudy Giuliani of amplifying disinformation, as part of an effort to oust former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and blasts Fox News guests Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova--both ardent Trump boosters--for "spreading disinformation."

Wow! Using all the same "disinformation" deplatforming pretexts as CNN.

The 162-page document, entitled "Ukraine, Disinformation, & the Trump Administration," was created by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, who produces research from what is known as the network's Brain Room--a newsroom division of researchers who provide information, data, and topic guides for the network's programming.

The research brief is especially critical of Solomon, a former opinion columnist at The Hill whose opinion pieces about Ukraine made unsubstantiated claims about its government interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Solomon’s pieces for The Hill fuelled Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt in Ukraine, which eventually helped lead to Trump's impeachment. Trump has also frequently cited Solomon reporting on Twitter in his own defense.

While Solomon is portrayed on Hannity’s show as a crusading investigative reporter, the Brain Room document accuses the contributor of taking part in a Ukrainian smear campaign. "John Solomon played an indispensable role in the collection and domestic publication of elements of this disinformation campaign," the Fox briefing book notes.

Here's the entire leaked Fox attack on Fox contributors, served up to allies in the openly liberal media.


Had enough yet?

I can't tell you all the things I know, but I can tell you, vaguely, that:

1) Journalists who have specific areas of subject-matter expertise, and who are therefore competent to make conclusions based on primary documents, are told that they are forbidden from reporting their own conclusions, because their conclusions, though both expert and, oh yeah, true, are a "conspiracy theory."

2) A high-profile journalist had important scoops about the general subject of the Russia hoax consigned to the website only, and were blocked from any mention on the air, due to the Fox News Division brass deciding that the thought that any suggestions that the FBI or Mueller were biased and corrupt were also a "conspiracy theory."

I know a lot of things. I know that FoxNews' culture is actually quite liberal, and even where it's borderline Republican, it's Paul Ryan bullshit.

And that's as conservative as it gets.

FoxNews can be made to Learn to Code too.

I challenge Brian Murphy to a debate on Fox on the lies he is spreading about us.

If he needs help maybe he can bring a few others. I’ll bring Joe or Vicky or John or all of them.

Fox owes us an opportunity to respond to this attack.

I can prove what I’m saying. Can he?— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) February 7, 2020





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To: RightGeek
A high-profile journalist had important scoops about the general subject of the Russia hoax consigned to the website only, and were blocked from any mention on the air, due to the Fox News Division brass deciding that the thought that any suggestions that the FBI or Mueller were biased and corrupt were also a "conspiracy theory." I know a lot of things. I know that FoxNews' culture is actually quite liberal, and even where it's borderline Republican, it's Paul Ryan bullshit.

I smell a Paul Ryan rat.

21 posted on 02/07/2020 10:09:43 AM PST by bkopto
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To: gandalftb
the NSC has become little more than a rest area for intel bureaucrats between billets in the Pentagon, CIA, State Dept., etc.

It's where agencies sent their very best people - their top men - when they can't figure out what else to do with them.

22 posted on 02/07/2020 10:10:43 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: RightGeek

Vindman’s job was nothing more than a learning experience. Folks get rotated in and out. He is/was due to go out and that’s likely what’s happening.


23 posted on 02/07/2020 10:17:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Great it seems to be nothing but a nest of spies and thieves anyway...


24 posted on 02/07/2020 10:18:46 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: RightGeek
The White House is reportedly weighing options to dismiss Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council (NSC) in an effort to shrink its foreign policy bureaucracy, a report said.

LTC Vindman should not only be dismissed from the NSC but also from the US Army. He serves at the pleasure of the President. He attacked the President, his Commander In Chief, disgraced his service, and betrayed his country.

No need to sugarcoat it. Dismiss him for cause. It is not retaliation. It is responsibility.

25 posted on 02/07/2020 10:18:58 AM PST by DakotaGator
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To: RightGeek
Anti-retaliation statutes, while necessary, should be limited to prohibiting firings and not reassignments. At least, not at the level where you are working in the White House. If a President is prevented from discharging a staffer whom he no longer trusts, the result is going to be that he's simply going to ignore/bypass that staffer. So they'll still be in that job, but the Presiden won't be receiving the input he/she is supposed to receive.

Shouldn't be any prohibition against transferring Vindeman back to the AF for reassignment.

26 posted on 02/07/2020 10:19:32 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DakotaGator

It will be viewed as retaliation to matter how you slice it.

Give him boring no where assignments until he gets the message and retires.


27 posted on 02/07/2020 10:20:41 AM PST by Reily
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To: Reily
Give him boring no where assignments until he gets the message and retires.

Boring and demeaning.

28 posted on 02/07/2020 10:21:29 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: rlmorel

Good question. Why is he still taking up space in such a highly sensitive position in the executive branch? That traitor rat and fat disgusting excuse of an Army Officer should be on PLO duty at Camp Swampy while awaiting Courts Martial.


29 posted on 02/07/2020 10:24:38 AM PST by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: RightGeek

Firing and Replacing the Interagency Working Group ( The Star Chamber) would be a good place to start.


30 posted on 02/07/2020 10:24:42 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: JMS

Head penguin herder in the Antarctic.


31 posted on 02/07/2020 10:30:00 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: RightGeek

i am ignorant about Vindman, sorry, so no comment on him here..........
but in the larger situation....
PDJT really still needs to Drain the Swamp a whole lot, and its largely in the security, defense, Snake Department arenas where the Nazis, Commies, IslamoNazis, and other anti-American agents, moles, spies, syncophats, and traitors have (naturally) gravitated to, dug into.

Drain the Swamp, Drain the Swamp!


32 posted on 02/07/2020 10:45:23 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Makes one wonder just how bad the damage caused by 8 years of the Kenyanesian Usurpation is on the US military.

The mind reels...

I and other vets on FR talked about this as it was happening. At least in the officer corps, there was starting to be a "loyalty litmus" test applied to every promotion, best described as "Get Woke or Get Broke".

33 posted on 02/07/2020 10:53:15 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Zhang Fei

Testifying that he openly opposed the President to a foreign leader should have been a show stopper, not to mention leaking information.


34 posted on 02/07/2020 10:54:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: RightGeek

“an effort to shrink its foreign policy bureaucracy,”

—Reduce the staff to those who haven’t vowed to “take out the President”. See if anyone is left.


35 posted on 02/07/2020 10:57:09 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: RightGeek
As a retired Lieutenant Colonel myself (not pudgy, btw), I’d be fine if Trump took that smug fatass and had him publicly hanged along with the rest of this coup.

If this had happened to a President Hillary, this guy would already be in Ft Marcy Park.

36 posted on 02/07/2020 11:14:02 AM PST by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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To: JMS
Vindman should be made a weather observation officer in the Aleutian Islands.

Worse, put him at Midway Island. You can't set a drink down without it resting on bird shit. You don't dare look up with your mouth open. Ever.

37 posted on 02/07/2020 11:15:12 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: Fury

Passing the APFT does not have much to do with being over the Army weight standards. I knew a lot of guys who always passed their APFT, didn’t look as fat as this guy and were placed on the Army over weight program. Being on the overweight program disqualifies one from most favorable actions and choice assignments. My son generally scores over 300 on his APFT, is very muscular and gets taped every time he does a PT test because his weight is over the allowed limit for his height. He does pass the tape test. A 6 foot tall guy over 40 is only allowed to be 203 lbs under current Army standards. Vindman looks pretty obviously over weight to me and he doesn’t look like his neck is big enough to pass the tape.
https://usarmybasic.com/army-physical-fitness/army-height-weight-standards


38 posted on 02/07/2020 11:26:54 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20
Passing the APFT does not have much to do with being over the Army weight standards

Good point and I have should have been clearer.

39 posted on 02/07/2020 11:59:12 AM PST by Fury
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To: AndyJackson

The really talented rarely make lateral moves to the NSC.
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The campers get into the NSC, often with political agendas and grudges. They have no sense of ownership or loyalty.
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They are opportunists that eventually want to be lobbyists or consultants or researchers.


40 posted on 02/07/2020 12:25:58 PM PST by gandalftb
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