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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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To: MNDude

“The move makes it more difficult for the Biden administration to immediately replace him”

WaPo says that as though it is a bad thing.


21 posted on 01/17/2021 8:19:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: foundedonpurpose

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.


22 posted on 01/17/2021 8:19:22 AM PST by stanne
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To: Gay State Conservative

“ 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


23 posted on 01/17/2021 8:20:17 AM PST by stanne
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To: MNDude

I’m not going to click on that rag - can anyone post who is the GOP ‘operative’ being inserted?


24 posted on 01/17/2021 8:20:47 AM PST by time4good
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To: MNDude

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.


25 posted on 01/17/2021 8:20:54 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: MNDude

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.


26 posted on 01/17/2021 8:22:50 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: philippa

“ 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.


27 posted on 01/17/2021 8:23:58 AM PST by stanne
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To: MNDude

Irregular?!?

Anything goes...... Time the RePukes take off the gloves.....


28 posted on 01/17/2021 8:24:03 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Bshaw

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

Ooh.


29 posted on 01/17/2021 8:25:49 AM PST by stanne
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To: time4good

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


30 posted on 01/17/2021 8:26:06 AM PST by MNDude
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To: stanne

Pray!


31 posted on 01/17/2021 8:27:19 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: MNDude

Maybe this indicates a forthcoming pardon for Snowden and Assange?


32 posted on 01/17/2021 8:27:54 AM PST by JHL
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To: spacejunkie2001

“pray”

It is the most important job. The most powerful


33 posted on 01/17/2021 8:28:46 AM PST by stanne
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To: Bshaw

“ 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.”


34 posted on 01/17/2021 8:29:17 AM PST by stanne
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To: MNDude

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.


35 posted on 01/17/2021 8:29:58 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: stanne


36 posted on 01/17/2021 8:32:03 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: MNDude

Moar


37 posted on 01/17/2021 8:33:53 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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To: MNDude

Reached by phone Saturday, Ellis said, “I don’t talk to the press, thank you,” and hung up.


38 posted on 01/17/2021 8:34:30 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: time4good
If you do click on the link, they want you to subscribe before you can read what they wrote.

See ya'. Wouldn't wanna be ya'.

39 posted on 01/17/2021 8:35:09 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: kiryandil

They’ll be done too.


40 posted on 01/17/2021 8:35:55 AM PST by stanne
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