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Trump 'landing parties' descend on Justice, State, Defense departments
Washington Times ^ | Nov. 17, 2016 | S.A. Miller

Posted on 11/17/2016 11:52:41 PM PST by GonzoII

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team got down to nuts and bolts Thursday, deploying “landing parties” to federal agencies responsible for national security and reportedly having offered the next administration’s first big appointment.

Visits to the National Security Council and departments of Defense, Justice and State to lay groundwork for the handover in January marked a rapid acceleration in activity by the transition team, which has been criticized for the slow pace of progress in the first week after the election.

The Associated Press, citing “a senior Trump official” speaking on the condition of anonymity, reported that Mr. Trump had offered the post of White House national security adviser to retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency chief. It was not clear Thursday evening whether Gen. Flynn, who was an early supporter of Mr. Trump and spoke on his behalf at the Republican National Convention, had accepted the offer.


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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: landingparties; landingparty; trump; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 11/17/2016 11:52:41 PM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

“He came , he saw....THEY DIED!!!!” Cackle Cackle!


2 posted on 11/17/2016 11:56:02 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: GonzoII

Trump’s team need to prevent these federal agencies from shredding documents and bleaching hard-drives to conceal the crimes of the usurper Obama’s administration.


3 posted on 11/18/2016 12:02:24 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: GonzoII

Preserve the evidence!


4 posted on 11/18/2016 12:03:07 AM PST by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: GonzoII

These are revolutionary times.....Trump & his teams are actually moving on an occupied, hostile Obama government, that has been ahistorical in practice.


5 posted on 11/18/2016 12:12:39 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

it must be a monumental task to come into the White House....yes, its the White House again, with pride....with no previous govt exp.....hopefully, Trump is smart enough to have good people at his side...


6 posted on 11/18/2016 12:18:32 AM PST by cherry
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To: GonzoII

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/what-was-barack-obama-doing-on-this-day-in-2008-231469

Interesting article on what obama was doing about this time.

Taking phone calls from world leaders (Trump has had how many to his home now?).

Had already decided on Timothy Geithner for Treasury. This was determined from one of Podesta’s hacked emails! (So I guess obama was already down the road of poor security.)

And Geithner was found to owe the IRS $34,000. He would later go on to bail out all of those financial firms.

I recall being REALLY pissed off on a project I consulted on. The guy was from one of those “too big to fail” firms, and had been transferred to Seattle. He was tearing down a 3 million-dollar home to put in a $20 million dollar home.

Most of it paid for up-front by the company, and the other banks chipped in for a low mortgage - IIRC it was double my mortgage of $1,100 a month!


7 posted on 11/18/2016 12:19:13 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: cherry

Trump has earned my respect. Truly he was all that was standing between us & 4 more years of misery & possible social collapse.


8 posted on 11/18/2016 12:22:02 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: 21twelve
........what just elected 2008 Obama was doing about this time......
http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/what-was-barack-obama-doing-on-this-day-in-2008-231469

Obama had already decided on Timothy Geithner for Treasury......determined from one of Podesta’s hacked emails! Geithner was found to owe the IRS $34,000 and would later go on to bail out all of those financial firms.

I recall being REALLY pissed off on a project I consulted on. The guy was from one of those “too big to fail” firms, and had been transferred to Seattle. He was tearing down a 3 million-dollar home to put in a $20 million dollar home. Most of it paid for up-front by the company, and the other banks chipped in for a low mortgage - IIRC it was double my mortgage of $1,100 a month!

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Better sit down as you read this.

ONCE UPON A TIME, IN THE PRIVILIGED ENCLAVES OF
OUR NATION'S CAPITAL, RHAM EMANUEL HELD TWO JOBS
Soon as he occupied the WH, Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (oversees the IRS).

PAUSE TO REFLECT First-term Obama had tight control of Treasury; Obama calculatedly placed his then-COS Rahm Emanuel in a dual role.......in the WH and at Treasury. Obama had a stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role Read on.

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THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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........about those bailouts.......

EXCERPT---FOURTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS Behind The Real Size of the Bailout; A guide to the abbreviations, acronyms, and obscure programs that make up the $14 trillion federal bailout of Wall Street
SOURCE motherjones.com --- Mon Dec. 21, 2009 12:23 PM PST

The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is popularly put at $700 billion—---the actual size of TARP--the Troubled Assets Relief Program.

But TARP is just the best known program in an array of more than 30 overseen by Treasury Department and Federal Reserve that have paid out or put aside untraceable money to bail out financial firms and inject money into the markets.

PAUSE TO REFLECT First-term Obama had tight control of Treasury; Obama calculatedly placed his then-COS Rahm Emanuel in a dual role.......in the WH and at Treasury. Obama had a stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role.

To get a sense of the size of the real $14 trillion bailout, see MJ chart at web site. A guide to the pieces of the puzzle includes massive untraceable Treasury Department bailout programs.

Money Market Mutual Fund: In September 2008, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel announced that it would insure the holdings of publicly offered money market mutual funds. According to the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), these guarantees could have potentially cost the federal government more than $3 trillion [PDF].

Public-Private Investment Fund: This joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program bought toxic assets from banks and brokerages—as much as $5 billion of assets per firm. According to SIGTARP, the government's potential exposure from the PPIF is between $500 million and $1 trillion [PDF].

TARP: As part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel made loans to or investments more than 750 banks and financial institutions. $650 billion has been paid out (not including HAMP; see below). As of December 21, 2009, $117.5 billion of that has been repaid.

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) stock purchase: The Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel bought $200 million in preferred stock from Fannie Mae and another $200 million from Freddie Mac [PDF] to show that they "will remain viable entities critical to the functioning of the housing and mortgage markets."

GSE mortgage-backed securities purchase: Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel may buy mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to SIGTARP, these purchases could cost as much as $314 billion ---SNIP---.

LONG READ---go to web site to read more and checkout the shocking financial charts.

SOURCE http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/behind-real-size-bailout

9 posted on 11/18/2016 1:52:45 AM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: GonzoII

The adults just took over from the last 8 years of a lefty class trip gone wrong.


10 posted on 11/18/2016 2:10:17 AM PST by dancusa ( Trump Wins! My heart feels like an alligator.)
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To: 21twelve

BO did not have the burden of hiring decisions. Soros told him who he was hiring.

Fun factoid: BO’s mother worked with Peter Geitner, Timmy’s daddy, in some third world country.


11 posted on 11/18/2016 2:18:17 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: GonzoII

NO BURROWING!


12 posted on 11/18/2016 2:37:26 AM PST by Mashood
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To: KarlInOhio
Preserve the evidence!

They are already shredding and deleting it.


13 posted on 11/18/2016 3:03:28 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Godebert

Yes, preserve evidence. At State Department, Justice and let us NEVER forget the IRS (Attention, “Is there a Lois Lerner in the office? Please come to the front desk immediately”)


14 posted on 11/18/2016 3:10:42 AM PST by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: cherry

Trump’s the smartest guy in the room not matter what room it is. He also has the largest testicles. The most qualified human on earth to be president of the USA.


15 posted on 11/18/2016 3:22:45 AM PST by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: GonzoII
I love the term "landing party". There to secure the beach head and clear the path for Trump.

But this landing party needs to secure documents and electronic data. It must

16 posted on 11/18/2016 3:34:06 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: LongWayHome
Trump has earned my respect. Truly he was all that was standing between us & 4 more years of misery & possible social collapse.

He is going to do what he said he was going to do to earn mine but the road ahead is looking very promising.

I am not going to say he was the only candidate that was in the Primary that could have saved us but he was the one that the American Citizen felt would and did pummel Killary Clintoon on election night.

All that BS said, looking forward to the road ahead but keeping my powder dry and my musket handy.

17 posted on 11/18/2016 3:38:55 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Godebert

Although I agree, they need to avoid getting so bogged down in rehashing the past that they don’t spend enough attention on the future and thus make embarassing mistake themselves.

The past is the past. Learn from it. But govern for the present and future.


18 posted on 11/18/2016 3:41:11 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: GonzoII

Job ONE. Disable all of the shredders.


19 posted on 11/18/2016 4:07:56 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Feckless

Job ONE. Disable all of the shredders.

PURGE!!


20 posted on 11/18/2016 4:12:29 AM PST by Recon Dad (Force Recon Dad)
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