Posted on 02/03/2025 5:15:28 AM PST by V_TWIN
The Trump administration has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” access restricted spaces at the agency on Saturday, said current and former USAID officials.
The placement of the security officials — John Voorhees and his deputy — on administrative leave is the latest effort by the Trump administration and Musk to wrest control of the world’s largest provider of food assistance, which they have denigrated without offering evidence as left-wing and corrupt amid objections from Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Amid the turmoil at the agency, Matt Hopson, the USAID chief of staff and a political appointee, resigned, according to a current and former USAID official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Hopson did not respond to requests for comment.
Voorhees was put on leave after he did not allow DOGE officials to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a “SCIF”
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while they’re at it take a hard look at their bank accounts
where did all that money come from?
Yes Please!
By the way, I should add...Matt Vespa is a Gaia Worshipping hardcore Leftist.
Missing from the story - did they have clearance or not?
they did mean world’s crookedest food supplier...right?
Why would this government agency even need a SCIF for top secret information is beyond me.
I like, though when they quoted some comments from another article, we saw the good old Tried and true” without evidence” comment to Trump’s claim that this is a corrupt organization.
And as always, when you see the main media say” without evidence” you can bet your bottom dollar there’s an absolute mountain of evidence that they’re simply ignoring
They also say it while they're actively blocking officials from getting that evidence, as with attempted audits of the 2020 election/voter rolls, or Biden's Senate voting record. It goes like this:
R: You're corrupt!
D: Prove it!
R: Okay, let me see your records.
D: NO!!
Thus also with USAID.
Working in an aviation Quality department for 17 years taught me a lot of things......one of which was every single time a person or department behaved in an invasive manner they were hiding something.......every time.
“without evidence”
Don’t need evidence...it’s a given in these union government agencies.
Whatta think that the SCIF facility hides a lot of EVIDENCE?
I’m guessing there’s plenty of evidence, now they’re going after the hard proof.
If nothing else, we’re seeing a once-in-a-lifetime shakeup happening.
Whatta think that the SCIF facility hides a lot of EVIDENCE?
I’m guessing there’s plenty of evidence, now they’re going after the hard proof.
If nothing else, we’re seeing a once-in-a-lifetime shakeup happening.
Any time a Federal employee tells representative from President Trump “No” they should be fired on the spot.
For too long these various government agencies have been allowed to run free without any supervision or accountability.
They have become a law on to themselves enriching themselves while pushing their own agenda.
Freeper ransomnote insightfully tells us:
<><>MSM flunkies are in collusion with “do-good” USAID
<><>colluding to hide that 25% of USAID tax dollars to foreign entities is for weapons/defense;
<><>they demean Trump and are conning readers
<><>insisting Trump is denying orphans and widows drinking water, food, Humanitarian aid.
USAID swears it is a “do-gooder”-— delivering heat, light, food, water, Ukraine’s firewood to the needy.
So when we hear talk of USAID’s “classified information” secured in top secret “SCIFs,” we want to know what kind of classified information?
Tax paid “do-good” USAID officials don’t want to talk about
<><>giving 10% to the ‘Big Guy’,
<><>disguising the true purpose of tax dollars,
<><>shipping crates of tax dollars to Globalist despots around the world,
<><>all while sap-happily chatting around the water cooler.
HOORAY Elon & Presient Trump!
It is officially an executive branch agency now so I would think POTUS vested them with whatever authority they would need to conduct their work.
For too long these various government agencies have been allowed to run free without any supervision or accountability.
They have become a law unto themselves enriching themselves while pushing their own agenda.
“ Voorhees was put on leave after he did not allow DOGE officials to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a “SCIF”
Why does USAID need a SCIF?
L
I get it - there needs to be secrecy when it comes to military and security but food and aid. The American people have the right to know where there money is going. Most likely is just a big money laundering scam.
See my post #9
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