Posted on 11/19/2016 7:02:03 AM PST by SkyPilot
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA, signaling a sharp rightward shift in U.S. security policy as he begins to form his Cabinet.
Trump on Friday also named retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. A former military intelligence chief, Flynn has accused the Obama administration of being too soft on terrorism and has cast Islam as a "political ideology" and driver of extremism.
The selections form the first outlines of Trump's Cabinet and national security teams. Given his lack of governing experience and vague policy proposals during the campaign, his selection of advisers is being scrutinized both in the U.S. and abroad.
Trump's initial decisions suggest a more aggressive military involvement in counterterror strategy and a greater emphasis on Islam's role in stoking extremism. Sessions, who is best known for his hard-line immigration views, has questioned whether terror suspects should benefit from the rights available in U.S. courts. Pompeo has said Muslim leaders are "potentially complicit" in attacks if they do not denounce violence carried out in the name of Islam.
Pompeo's nomination to lead the CIA also opens the prospect of the U.S. resuming torture of detainees. Trump has backed harsh interrogation techniques that President Barack Obama and Congress have banned, saying the U.S. "should go tougher than waterboarding," which simulates drowning. In 2014, Pompeo criticized Obama for "ending our interrogation program" and said intelligence officials "are not torturers, they are patriots."
Sessions and Pompeo would both require Senate confirmation before assuming their designated roles; Flynn would not.
In a separate matter Friday, it was announced that Trump had agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over Trump University...
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Unfortunately, so far Mitch McConnell says he won't use the nuclear option. Maybe Trump can help him change his mind...or else.
I was wondering about that. When are the Republicans going to learn that there's nothing to be gained from playing nice and trying to get the Democrats to like them?
Very true.
Sessions?
National Review should fold. It is a disgrace. It also endorsed Paul Ryan's proposal to slash pensions to disabled veterans in 2013. Not sure what they are drinking over there at National Review, but they need some serious soul searching........
Fox, please give Tucker a raise if he keeps performing like he did on this video. The bottomline. . .the demons are being stirred up among jounralists, media,and anyone else coming against Sessions because he is a God-fearing American.
Remember all the posts here in FR accusing Trump of being a closet Liberal?
They were all wrong.
Remember all the posts here in FR accusing Trump of being a closet Liberal?
They were all wrong.
Yes.
My reply was to Maudeen who was talking about Sessions.
Amen.
That figures......
Quisling.
NeverTrumpers are not conservative, they just wear R jerseys to fool people.
I remember some even saying he was in cahoots with the Clinton’s LOL
No, Trump ran his campaign from the right. Something the sniggering NeverTrumpers, those "conservative purists" as well as those on the left never understood.
Yep, that’s our senator. He is a true Southern gentleman. He is so respected here in Alabama that he was totally unopposed in his last election. He is the real deal.
“the U.S. resuming torture of detainees”
Can’t resume what never happened. If we’re going to redefine down the meaning of “torture”, then I want reparations for what we endured for the past 8 years.
Great idea but there are other departments that should be closed down as well.
Notice how these shiftless AP journalists attempt to denigrate him in the headline: “Trump Shifts to the right”.
See, we told you “Deplorables” he was shifty!
Three outstanding picks!
Now, fight for them.
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