Posted on 12/07/2020 7:03:59 PM PST by semimojo
President-elect Joe Biden has selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the former commander of US Central Command, to be his secretary of defense, two sources familiar with the decision told CNN on Monday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Austin would be the first Black man to lead the Department of Defense.
A few hours before the pick was reported House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, said that he believed another candidate, Michele Flournoy, is "hands down" the most qualified person for the job.
Austin, the source says, "knows the Pentagon inside and out" and would be "an excellent person to run logistics on Covid-19 vaccine distribution."
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Not gonna happen
Why? Waiver?
Does this scare the sh t out of anybody else?
Raytheon will be happy.
Yeah, --- that's the real job of the Department of Defense.
That business about defending the USA, well that's just
old fashioned, old school conservative nonsense.
By the way, whatever happened to the US Public Health
Service? You'd think they would be the people
handling the "pandemic."
The real job of the Department of Defense is to buy lots of overpriced stuff from contractors and start wars so they have to buy more overpriced stuff.
Wonder what ol’ Pedo Joe will do when his whole house of cards comes crashing down after Pres. Trump prevails?
Not referring to what the Deep State or other bad actors will do. What will BiteOne’s own reaction be, given his cognitive deficits? Will he even comprehend what happened?
Come to that, what about the Surgeon General? Never hear a peep about him / her / whoever any more. (I'm REALLY gonna feel like an idiot if the office has been discontinued for years. LOL!)
He'll be busy chasing after the dog, naked, and pulling its tail. And Dr Jill will be tearing her hair out.
In imaginationland it might happen
Does anyone here really believe that Biden is ‘picking’ anybody?
How long till we invade Syria?
Should have picked Johnny Cochran....his “defense” is going to be a legal one.
February 25, 2016: During a congressional hearing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) accused officials at the Pentagon of deleting classified intelligence files and emails about the war on ISIS/ISIL. He said, "We have been made aware that both files and emails have been deleted by personnel at CENTCOM, and we expect that the Department of Defense will provide these and all other relevant documents to the committee."[17]
March 30, 2016: Army General Joseph Votel assumed command of CENTCOM, relieving Army General Lloyd J. Austin III.[16]
He seems nice.
I was going to sell 1,100 shares of RTX stock this week as I exit the market, but I guess I’ll hang on to them and see what happens
2021 - 2016 = 5 (Plus a couple of months) Am I missing something? What does the article say about that because I am not giving CNN a hit?
Exactly.
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