Where is the journalist integrity when one site is merely siting another site and interpreting what the original site wrote, especially with no sources to be quoted.........
It just might be factual but at this juncture, I'm considering it heresay..........
I just did a quick search and here are two other articles saying the same thing.
Mattis Naming Obama Veterans To Key Defense Positions Is Making Republicans Furious
Mattis has so far attempted to smuggle various progressives into the administration, whom he worked with in the past. He initially wanted Michele Flournoy as his deputy, a spot now-temporarily filled by Obama administration holdover Robert Work. Flournoy was deemed Hillary Clinton’s likely defense secretary and also served as the undersecretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration.
Mattis has also pushed the White House to nominate Rudy DeLeon, who served during the Clinton administration, to the position of undersecretary for personnel and readiness. He suggested Richard V. Spencer for undersecretary of the Navy, even though Spencer is affiliated with the Center for a New American Security, a left-leaning think tank.
Here’s another:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mattis-defense-hill-republicans-obama-236329
Hill Republicans say they’re growing frustrated with Mattis
He has more recently proposed to the White House nominating Clinton administration veteran Rudy DeLeon as undersecretary for personnel and readiness and Richard V. Spencer, a former Marine and investment banker now affiliated with the bipartisan Center for a New American Security, as secretary of the Navy.