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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: bcr100

Timer started...

Someone will doubtless be along to grace your assertion with a heap of rotting cat food.


81 posted on 01/17/2021 10:11:32 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: nesnah
If Trump declares martial law the first of the week, all bets are off and he will remain president until the whole sordid mess is sorted out.

IMHO

82 posted on 01/17/2021 10:14:59 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: foundedonpurpose

RED 6


83 posted on 01/17/2021 10:23:47 AM PST by Revel
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To: HotHunt

If Trump declares martial law the first of the week, all bets are off and he will remain president until the whole sordid mess is sorted out.
IMHO


I do not think Trump will remain as President after 1/20 at noon. I do believe that Martial Law will be declared prior, but Trump hasn’t ‘proved’ he won the election; he knows this and will do the right thing for that scenario. Who will be President will be sorted out in the forthcoming months.....maybe a re-vote under the supervision of the military.

Then, we know what will happen.


84 posted on 01/17/2021 10:25:48 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: nesnah
Declaring martial law will essentially put everything on hold, including Biden's inauguration.

I agree that Trump will have to provide evidence that the election was stolen from him and he is the rightful, legal president. And he will do that. There may be a re-vote in the contested states or even all of the states. It could involve forensic audits of the ballots in those states. But he will win like he did the first time.

But during the martial law, he will remain in command. He won't cede power in the middle of this operation once he springs this trap.

I believe that what is going to happen is much larger than the stolen election, however. It will involve treasonous activities of the players involved in spying on his administration illegally trying to oust him and his associates, lying to the FISA courts, trying to unseat him with phony impeachment charges for making a legal phone call to the president of the Ukraine and maybe even the Capitol breach planners and all those people who have profited from illegal sex trafficking in the Deep State. The last one has been a pet peeve of his for a long time.

We shall see.

85 posted on 01/17/2021 10:49:48 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: tarpit
Well, that CNN clip wasn't too biased/slanted now was it?

Every time the media speaks, they have to point out what a bad guy Trump is.

Thanks for posting, tarpit.

86 posted on 01/17/2021 10:58:54 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Right Wing Assault

While I indeed trust Flynn’s words implicitly, please don’t pass this off as yesterday’s words. They are at least a week old. We should strive to be honest, and not act like the MSM.


87 posted on 01/17/2021 11:12:45 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: MNDude

And yet I don’t recall anyone in LSM being troubled when Obama placed numerous people in jobs in numerous agencies so that his political operatives would be embedded as a sort of shadow government to oppose and slow walk DJT’s agenda.


88 posted on 01/17/2021 11:19:53 AM PST by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: stanne

No pressure, but where’s that video link? 😭


89 posted on 01/17/2021 11:27:24 AM PST by Lauren BaRecall (💗 Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the Lord!)
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To: MNDude

“...strong evidence of irregularity...”

Can’t the WaPo order up some ex-lax from an associated fulfillment center to fix that?


90 posted on 01/17/2021 11:29:01 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Ann Archy

One cliffhanger after another.

I need a break from all of the ‘news’ and politics, but must keep up with what is going on :-\


91 posted on 01/17/2021 11:52:13 AM PST by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: MNDude

NSA director Paul Nakasone is being unmasked as a deep stater that needs to go. He has basically refused a direct order. I do not see good things for him in coming days.


92 posted on 01/17/2021 12:08:19 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: HotHunt

“If Trump declares martial law the first of the week, all bets are off and he will remain president until the whole sordid mess is sorted out.”

If he declares Martial Law, the almighty Supreme Court will have absolutely no power. The military takes over the courts during Martial Law.


93 posted on 01/17/2021 12:10:27 PM PST by MNDude
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I Pray!


94 posted on 01/17/2021 12:30:18 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
<>i>please don’t pass this off as yesterday’s words

Wiil be correct.

95 posted on 01/17/2021 12:39:32 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC )
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To: MNDude

We are already in martial law they just haven’t announced yet.

Here’s my question. How does Joe Biden plan to get Trump, Miller and their 26,000 occupying troops out of DC? Is Joe hiding his army in his backyard in Delaware?


96 posted on 01/17/2021 12:55:23 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: BenLurkin

Wasn’t it the Wash Po that didn’t want Trump to replace Comey, etc?

Never forget Obama at the last minute changed the line of succession in the DOJ.


97 posted on 01/17/2021 1:03:24 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Near as I can tell, rank and file Democrat Party menbers have a memory span of about six weeks.


98 posted on 01/17/2021 1:07:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MNDude

President Trump is President until he leaves office. The Washington Post is vile... they’ve been wanting Trump to stop being President since he took office... get over it biased sold out butt boys for the democrat party.


99 posted on 01/17/2021 1:13:10 PM PST by GOPJ (Megan McCain and Liz Chaney starting new Party - "Born On Third - Sure we Hit a Triple".)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I think this was taped on Jan. 6


100 posted on 01/17/2021 1:24:26 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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