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Mattis seeks out Soros-funded think tanker for top Pentagon post
Conservative Review ^ | March 22, 2017 | Jordan Schachtel

Posted on 03/22/2017 10:48:46 AM PDT by huldah1776

Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis wants to nominate a senior fellow at a Soros-funded think tank as undersecretary at the Pentagon, as the embattled Cabinet official continues to clash with the White House over prospective nominees.

Politico reports that Mattis wants Rudy deLeon — a senior fellow at the far-left Center for American Progress (CAP) — to come on board as undersecretary for personnel and readiness.

DeLeon previously served in the Clinton administration as deputy secretary of defense. During that time, Gen. Mattis served as his senior military assistant.

DeLeon worked for Boeing as senior vice president from 2001 to 2006 and currently serves on the board of major defense company General Dynamics.

This appears to be a peculiar choice for an undersecretary, given that deLeon recently endorsed a letter opposing the president’s immigration moratorium from six terror-linked countries. The letter calls Trump’s national security order “beneath the dignity of our great nation” and advised government workers to apply “discretion,” in an attempt to essentially undermine the president’s initiative.

As a CAP official, he has engaged in campaigns to advance “progressive values.” deLeon advocates for government to take “steps that will be a lasting legacy to the progressive societies for decades to come.” He is also a proponent of President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal with the terror state in Tehran.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201703; cap; communists; deleon; dod; iran; irandeal; leftwingnuts; mattis; mattisdems; mattissoros; pentagon; podesta; rudydeleon; shadowgov; soros; sorosorgs; stopsoros
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To: huldah1776

So how’s the water level in the swamp these days? Seems like it’s getting deeper to me...


101 posted on 03/22/2017 1:43:54 PM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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To: little jeremiah
The news is so awful it is like being sent to live in a Heironymous Bosch painting.

Like this one with Hillary in it?


102 posted on 03/22/2017 1:56:56 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: 9YearLurker

agreed


103 posted on 03/22/2017 2:16:46 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Mattis hiring commieprog aholes is not out of the art of war. It’s crap.


104 posted on 03/22/2017 2:37:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Hot Tabasco

How is this a hit piece? If it is factual, it is not a hit piece.


105 posted on 03/22/2017 2:37:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: jjotto

Thanks, that’s what I figured.


106 posted on 03/22/2017 2:38:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Just needs a giant with lost souls pouring into its maw in its belly, and more fire.


107 posted on 03/22/2017 2:39:12 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: LS

Maybe neither Ivanka nor Pres. Trump know about Gorelick’s past.


108 posted on 03/22/2017 2:42:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah
If it is factual, it is not a hit piece.

Where is the journalist integrity when one site is merely siting another site and interpreting what the original site wrote, especially with no sources to be quoted.........

It just might be factual but at this juncture, I'm considering it heresay..........

109 posted on 03/22/2017 2:45:32 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My once 6 pack abs are now a keg......)
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To: little jeremiah
Relax, LJ.

We can't tell what is going on from out here in the boonies.

Mattis is a skilled warrior. He knows there is also a war going on in DC.

When you're draining the swamp, you don't tell the alligators what you are going to do or where you are going to be.

I could be wrong, of course, but having watched Trump for a very long time, I trust him to make the right decisions.

Trump understands full-well how to confound the enemy...so does Mattis.

110 posted on 03/22/2017 2:59:28 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
I love Mattis:

"I come in peace, I didn't bring artillery.

But I am pleading with you with tears in my eyes:

If you - - with me, I'll kill you all."

Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders


111 posted on 03/22/2017 3:04:02 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham; All
Yep.

Trump didn't make a mistake with Mattis.

We just need to take a good, long look at the incredible team Trump has selected and have faith that they are going to pull this wonderful country back from the brink.

We also have a job...to spread confidence that we are going to win.

Let's all pull together and support one another. Have faith.

112 posted on 03/22/2017 4:05:35 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Badboo

I’m beginning to feel like an Atlanta Falcons fan halfway through the third quarter. I’m watching it but still can’t believe it.

The only hesitancy I had about voting for The Donald was the fact that for all his rhetoric during the campaign, he has never in his life had to face organized opposition to his every move compounded by dubious loyalty from those he thought would have his back. Where is Bannon while all of this is going on? And Jamie Gorelick in the White House?!? And why didn’t he educate the federal judge who issued the injunction against his immigration ban by explaining the judiciary has no say in the matter? I know it’s early in the game but the signs of a major let-down are appearing more and more frequently. Hope I’m wrong...


113 posted on 03/22/2017 4:32:15 PM PDT by clive bitterman
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To: huldah1776

The rumor was he was a Democrat, but he is picking boll weevils, didn’t Trump do his own vetting? Did Bannion look at his former colleagues and see what kind of group hot tub he frequented?


114 posted on 03/22/2017 4:57:39 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: RoosterRedux

If what you say is factual, then why did he want to hire Patterson, a Muslim Brotherhood supporter who supported the overthrow of Morsi? And unless the article is entirely false, why does he want to hire a progressive who helped put together the Iran deal? It makes absolutely no sense at all.


115 posted on 03/22/2017 4:57:44 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I just did a quick search and here are two other articles saying the same thing.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/22/mattis-naming-obama-veterans-to-key-defense-positions-is-making-republicans-furious/

Mattis Naming Obama Veterans To Key Defense Positions Is Making Republicans Furious

Mattis has so far attempted to smuggle various progressives into the administration, whom he worked with in the past. He initially wanted Michele Flournoy as his deputy, a spot now-temporarily filled by Obama administration holdover Robert Work. Flournoy was deemed Hillary Clinton’s likely defense secretary and also served as the undersecretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration.

Mattis has also pushed the White House to nominate Rudy DeLeon, who served during the Clinton administration, to the position of undersecretary for personnel and readiness. He suggested Richard V. Spencer for undersecretary of the Navy, even though Spencer is affiliated with the Center for a New American Security, a left-leaning think tank.

Here’s another:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mattis-defense-hill-republicans-obama-236329

Hill Republicans say they’re growing frustrated with Mattis

He has more recently proposed to the White House nominating Clinton administration veteran Rudy DeLeon as undersecretary for personnel and readiness and Richard V. Spencer, a former Marine and investment banker now affiliated with the bipartisan Center for a New American Security, as secretary of the Navy.


116 posted on 03/22/2017 5:05:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: lodi90

The irony of “Petreaus all over” is that Mattis helped Petreaus write the COIN strategy and rules of engagement. I had gut reservations about him, but these choices of his literally make me sick.


117 posted on 03/22/2017 5:24:50 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

I think mad dog is truly mad!


118 posted on 03/22/2017 5:27:36 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: little jeremiah

If what you say is factual, then why did he want to hire Patterson, a Muslim Brotherhood supporter who supported the overthrow of Morsi? And unless the article is entirely false, why does he want to hire a progressive who helped put together the Iran deal? It makes absolutely no sense at all.


It makes total sense if the good general is covering all his bases with an eye to his post DoD career.


119 posted on 03/22/2017 5:39:18 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: manc

Makes me uneasy being that I vote pro-life and we know his kids are democrats.


120 posted on 03/22/2017 5:39:56 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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