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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“The move makes it more difficult for the Biden administration to immediately replace him”
WaPo says that as though it is a bad thing.
God and Trump Know.
Maybe Pompeo and a few.
Not us. We are to continue doing our part, after having done he most important job of re-electing him, and stand back, let them handle it now
Yes sir.
“ 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.”
Out
I’m not going to click on that rag - can anyone post who is the GOP ‘operative’ being inserted?
And Biden will fire him immediately anyway. The supremes including Amy Conehead Barrett, Homo Roberts, and Kavenaugg the party boy will agree. This is child’s play for democrats.
From the article.
It “appears to be an attempt to improperly politicize an important career position,” wrote Susan Hennessey, a former lawyer in the NSA Office of General Counsel, on Lawfare, where she is the executive editor.”
Considering her position at Lawfare I would take whatever opinion she states with a salt lick let alone a grain.
“ Don’t know why this is important, but if the Dems are upset about it, it’s a good move“
It is important because like good soldiers who have done the grunt work, as has Trump, voting, we have to stand down and wait with not a word of top secret info.
When the enemy is upset we know it’s a good sign
No kidding.
Irregular?!?
Anything goes...... Time the RePukes take off the gloves.....
“ Don’t know why this is important, but if the Dems are upset about it, it’s a good move.”
Ooh.
In November, Pentagon General Counsel Paul C. Ney Jr. named Michael Ellis, then a White House official, to the position of general counsel at the NSA, a career civilian post at the government’s largest and most technologically advanced spy agency, The Post reported. He was selected after a competitive civil service competition. He has not taken up the job, however, as he needed to complete administrative procedures, including taking a polygraph test
Pray!
Maybe this indicates a forthcoming pardon for Snowden and Assange?
“pray”
It is the most important job. The most powerful
“ 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.”
Clinton did this type of thing broadly on his way out the door, including having people from commissions that were direct appointments resign so they could be re-appointed to extended terms.
Moar
Reached by phone Saturday, Ellis said, “I don’t talk to the press, thank you,” and hung up.
See ya'. Wouldn't wanna be ya'.
They’ll be done too.
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