Posted on 10/05/2019 4:54:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Allies to President Trump are furious with acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan for how they say he threw his boss and department officials under the bus in a recent interview.
“At a time when President Trump is facing the most partisan attacks of his administration, one of his own Cabinet-level officials aired his grievances with the president in the court of public opinion,” said Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council. “Regardless of your readers' political leanings: Left, right, or in the middle, the airing of grievances by a Cabinet-level official must be considered dishonest and unforgivable.”
McAleenan tried to distance himself from Trump, acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan, and acting Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli in the Washington Post piece. Judd was widely rumored to be interested in the CBP job when McAleenan got it in 2017, but told the Washington Examiner he had not applied for it. He said he was surprised at how the acting secretary publicly described the 240,000-person department.
“Mr. McAleenan is responsible for the security of this nation from attacks by bad actors both foreign and domestic; yet he announced to the world that he is unhappy with his job and that he doesn't have the authority he was promised. He further implied that the department was in disarray," said Judd. "What better time would there be for a terrorist attack? Acting Secretary McAleenan's public comments would be akin to a battle field general informing a hostile military that he and his troops weren't prepared for battle."
Trump has remained silent about McAleenan since the publishing of the story Tuesday. A second person who is familiar with the White House’s strategy said, “Right now, everything is impeachment."
The story credits McAleenan with having “guided the United States out of a crisis at the southern border."
In March and April 2017, roughly 16,000 migrants were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border each month. Over the next two years, that number rose and, in May, surpassed 144,000. Judd said McAleenan did not do enough, including the lobbying of Congress to pass immigration reforms, starting in early 2017 to maintain the low levels. “Those numbers led to the deaths of multiple individuals in our custody including an 7-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy," Judd said. "By anyone's assessment, Mr. McAleenan's time as commissioner must be seen as a failure."
A former senior CBP official who worked with McAleenan described being “surprised” to read he felt isolated in the Trump administration.
“Ever since Mr. McAleenan became the Acting Commissioner at CBP he insured that he alone had access to DHS and then the White House, on behalf of the Agency. His isolation was self-imposed,” the official wrote. Since April, 17 White House political appointees have left Homeland Security.
“What kind of cabinet head sits down with the Washington Post to openly grieve his boss, ding his own agency heads, and then self-proclaim he’s the missing link separating an immigration utopia between two parties? Someone who has exclusively donated to Democrats his entire life isn’t apolitical, it’s someone who is of fundamentally different ilk than those who put him there,” the official wrote.
Former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan said McAleenan’s refusal to use the term “illegal alien” was “demeaning to every Border Patrol and ICE agent out there enforcing the law as the laws are written.”
“To try to say you’re not going to use legal terms is a slippery slope that we go down that makes enforcing the law a choice rather than an obligation,” Homan said. “He needs to understand that we are in a fight for this country because the Left wants open borders. The Left wants to abolish ICE and they want to end immigration enforcement. And it’s a political fight whether he likes it or not.”
Don’t forget Wray.
Another ANUS from central casting !
When is his firing scheduled?
“”I agree, and its time to bring Holman out of retirement,””
I thought he had been picked recently to run DHS. If that’s not correct, why on earth wasn’t he? What is the president waiting for? My word, this guy is right under his nose....Put him in charge!
Sure looks that way, doesn’t it? It’s quite a list and definitely worth more screening/vetting. It seems like Kelly Ann is the only one who has remained on the staff and what a fighter she is!
BTW, you listed Bolton twice but maybe you meant Tillerson?
Trump has remained silent about McAleenan since the publishing of the story Tuesday.
My director sent all of us links to the article and praised his integrity. I chose not to respond. Even though I just hit retirement eligibility (yay!) I’m not ready to go yet and I don’t want to spend my last few years in a hostile work environment.
She should have sent the article without personal comment. She surprised me with that; she’s usually more careful.
McAleenan is a shytheel and should be unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
and Sessions
Then, The Washington Post wrote about the planned raids, the cities where they would be conducted, and some 2,000 families that were targeted. The club that knew these details was very, very small.
Someone leaked it to the press, and some are pointing fingers at Acting Department of Homeland Security Director Kevin McAleenan. He reportedly did it to sabotage the operation, one that was not well received by former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. It cost her her job.
Five sources spoke with Anna Giaritelli of The Washington Examiner. Besides McAleenan being accused of leaking, the DHS secretary was accused of caring more about what liberals and Never Trumpers thought of him than carrying out the duties of the agency. Not good, folks.
For a man who runs an agency tasked with securing our border, he’s donated for years to the one political party that’s made it known that enforcing immigration laws is not a priority: the Democratic Party. The president of the National Border Patrol Council says the acting DHS secretary should be considered anti-Trump. Giaritelli has more (via Washington Examiner):
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who was accused of sabotaging the Trump administration's deportation operation because of a personal opposition to the plan, has given for years solely to Democratic causes, according to federal records.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, wrote in an op-ed Monday that the secretary and his wife's donations only to Democratic politicians and organizations over the past 12 years could explain why McAleenan allegedly leaked a nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid to the media last week, forcing the administration to cancel the extensive undertaking after months of planning.
"He has proven his political leanings in his actions, including his campaign contributions," Judd wrote in a Fox News op-ed. "By definition, Kevin McAleenan should be considered anti-Trump."
Promoted to the point of incompetence. So common in public and civil service.
Pretty simple solution... IMMEDIATELY DUMP McAleenan’s A$$!
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