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Acting defense secretary orders NSA director to immediately install former GOP operative as the agency’s top lawyer
Washington Post ^

Posted on 01/17/2021 8:06:22 AM PST by MNDude

Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller ordered the director of the National Security Agency to install on Saturday a former GOP political operative as the NSA’s top lawyer, according to four individuals familiar with the matter.

The move is troubling, coming as it does four days before President Trump leaves office and the Biden administration takes over, former U.S. officials said. The move makes it more difficult for the Biden administration to immediately replace him, the former officials said.

“An 11th-hour move like this and a directive from the acting secretary of defense is overwhelmingly strong evidence of irregularity,” Hennessey said on Saturday. “Unless the acting secretary of defense can produce a compelling rationale for why this individual needed to be installed now, there should be a presumption that this is improper and the Biden team should remove this individual on Day 1.”

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1 posted on 01/17/2021 8:06:22 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

HUH????


2 posted on 01/17/2021 8:07:37 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MNDude

Hmmmmm


3 posted on 01/17/2021 8:08:44 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: MNDude

“troubling” for who?


4 posted on 01/17/2021 8:09:23 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: MNDude

And the many last friday of the Trump admin news dumps were not “troubling” at all? These partisan propagandists are so transparent.


5 posted on 01/17/2021 8:09:59 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Ann Archy

Something is going on...

God knows what that is.


6 posted on 01/17/2021 8:10:31 AM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: G Larry

?


7 posted on 01/17/2021 8:10:50 AM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: MNDude

Strange how this is never a problem when Dems do this...


8 posted on 01/17/2021 8:10:53 AM PST by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: MNDude

And what of the 12,455 Rat Party operatives employed in that agency? That sound you hear from the Amazon Compost is the sound of crickets.


9 posted on 01/17/2021 8:11:13 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: MNDude

BOL!

Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller ordered the director of the National Security Agency to install on Saturday a former GOP political operative as the NSA’s top lawyer, according to four individuals familiar with the matter.

The move is troubling, coming as it does four days before President Trump leaves office and the Biden administration takes over, former U.S. officials said. The move makes it more difficult for the Biden administration to immediately replace him, the former officials said.

“An 11th-hour move like this and a directive from the acting secretary of defense is overwhelmingly strong evidence of irregularity,” Hennessey said on Saturday. “Unless the acting secretary of defense can produce a compelling rationale for why this individual needed to be installed now, there should be a presumption that this is improper and the Biden team should remove this individual on Day 1.”


10 posted on 01/17/2021 8:11:13 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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he move is troubling, coming as it does four days before President Trump leaves office and the Biden administration takes over

Or not.

11 posted on 01/17/2021 8:11:42 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: MNDude

“... move that raises concerns of improper politicization.”

Does the Post have clue?


12 posted on 01/17/2021 8:12:55 AM PST by stanne
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To: G Larry
Unless the acting secretary of defense can produce a compelling rationale for why this individual needed to be installed now

If they actually represented us and there was the slightest resemblance of the rule of law, I would have no problem suggesting what a compelling rationale would be. However, they do not.
13 posted on 01/17/2021 8:13:02 AM PST by RBW in PA
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The move is troubling, coming as it does four days before President Trump leaves office and the Biden administration takes over,

It is troubling that the Washington Compost is owned by Jeff Bezos. It is troubling that there was massive election fraud. There's a lot in the world that is troubling. Leftist need to be scared.

14 posted on 01/17/2021 8:13:03 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MNDude

Don’t know why this is important, but if the Dems are upset about it, it’s a good move.


15 posted on 01/17/2021 8:13:28 AM PST by philippa
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To: G Larry

Whom

For whom

For them.


16 posted on 01/17/2021 8:13:34 AM PST by stanne
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“An 11th-hour move like this and a directive from the acting secretary of defense is overwhelmingly strong evidence of irregularity,”

Kind of like the IRREGULARITY of the election??


17 posted on 01/17/2021 8:15:36 AM PST by doc maverick
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To: foundedonpurpose

God and Trump

Maybe Pompeo and a few.


18 posted on 01/17/2021 8:16:31 AM PST by stanne
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To: MNDude

The evidence we already have will be added to in coming days and they want it investigated and not buried. They are rushing to vet the evidence from Italy. They want it investigated as it should be. We know that biden will try to bury this.


19 posted on 01/17/2021 8:16:56 AM PST by glimmerman70
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To: stanne

I think the concerns it ought to raise for the fraudsters is that the end of a massive sting operation might be drawing to an end.


20 posted on 01/17/2021 8:18:19 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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