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Washington Post flip-flop: No, the Trump White House did not ‘dissolve’ the pandemic response office
Twitchy ^ | March 16, 2020 | Brett T.

Posted on 03/16/2020 2:16:31 PM PDT by kevcol

It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.

Now, I’m not naive. This is Washington. It’s an election year. Officials out of power want back into power after November. But the middle of a worldwide health emergency is not the time to be making tendentious accusations.

(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: biodefense; bolton; counterproliferation; covid19; districtofcolumbia; fakenews; jeffbezos; nsc; pandemicoffice; pandemicresponseteam; pendemicoffice; trump; wapo; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 03/16/2020 2:16:31 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Fake news. Again.


2 posted on 03/16/2020 2:17:28 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

He did put her in her place....and had every right to...Hope she enjoys her crow.


3 posted on 03/16/2020 2:22:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Anybody who believes anything that THE WASHINGTON POST claims & that is more controversial than the sports scores, qualifies as a FOOL of the 1st rank.

When I lived near DC, the “news” paper was commonly known, even by subscribers, as THE COMPOST or PRAVDA ON THE POTOMAC, as the Post LIES about as frequently as the paper prints the TRUTH.
(In all but name, THE COMPOST is nothing but a “house organ” of the RADICAL LEFT of the DNC/DNCC.)

Yours, TMN78247


4 posted on 03/16/2020 2:24:49 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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She got the accusation out so many will believe it mission accomplished.


5 posted on 03/16/2020 2:30:06 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Steely Tom

Fake news. Again.

***************

Lying news. These people are not news outlets; they are purveyors of propaganda. And they are cranking it out at high speed right now.


6 posted on 03/16/2020 2:30:16 PM PDT by Starboard (has so far)
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To: Steely Tom

btt


7 posted on 03/16/2020 2:33:41 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: kevcol

Again


8 posted on 03/16/2020 2:35:29 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: kevcol

The retraction was in Section D, Page 33, in small print.


9 posted on 03/16/2020 2:36:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kevcol

bkmk


10 posted on 03/16/2020 2:37:16 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: kevcol
I know the charge is specious.

And Democrats have vocabularies that include, "specious." Why can't Republicans attack and attack hard?

11 posted on 03/16/2020 2:37:28 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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That’s just ONE of the lies a high school “friend” on my FB has been spamming FB with....I have since unfriended the idiot, who has a masters, doctorate, etc....but is an idiot lib who thinks AOC has great ides....aaagghhhh


12 posted on 03/16/2020 2:38:00 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Trump is as good a dictator as he is a racist.....)
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To: kevcol

Flip-flop? I don’t see how them providing both diverging opinions points to a case of flip-flopping. What it does is surprise me that they did offer both opinions. That said I think the first opinion was a baldfaced lie. She was engaging in tendentious accusations for sure, as Tim Morrison so aptly called it. 8>).


13 posted on 03/16/2020 2:46:23 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: kevcol

Yep! Just like my elderly sister in law called me yesterday all frantic literally in tears saying she heard the mediaVOMITS reporter on our local news that grocery stores were going to shut down..UGH!! Folks our war is with the mediaVOMITS when do we fight them? When?


14 posted on 03/16/2020 2:50:21 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: RoseofTexas

This is for our survival and no one including myself are doing diddley squat!! Folks they are winning and I hate to say this but Biden might be your next president if we don’t fight the enemy!! Ideas?


15 posted on 03/16/2020 2:53:25 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: kevcol

Notice how the claim he had closed the office was presented as “news” but the op=ed that he didn’t was clearly labeled “opinion.”


16 posted on 03/16/2020 3:14:37 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: kevcol

Only two explanations:

1: They knew the truth and lied.
2: They are so stupid they did not do their homework and do some background checking.

Lying and incompetence - the two pillars of modern journalism.


17 posted on 03/16/2020 3:16:22 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: kevcol

Bookmark


18 posted on 03/16/2020 3:41:47 PM PDT by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: kevcol

Tendentious?

Let’s just have at it and get this over with.


19 posted on 03/16/2020 3:43:40 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: RoseofTexas

When?

When we have small, transportable EMP makers.


20 posted on 03/16/2020 3:46:06 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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