Posted on 10/05/2019 8:55:03 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
There are many reports floating around about the recent ICE raids. President Trump announced that a large-scale sweep would begin soon, but no details were offered.
Then, The Washington Post wrote about the planned raids, the cities where they would be conducted, and some 2,000 families that were targeted. The club that knew these details was very, very small.
Someone leaked it to the press, and some are pointing fingers at Acting Department of Homeland Security Director Kevin McAleenan. He reportedly did it to sabotage the operation, one that was not well received by former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. It cost her her job.
Five sources spoke with Anna Giaritelli of The Washington Examiner. Besides McAleenan being accused of leaking, the DHS secretary was accused of caring more about what liberals and Never Trumpers thought of him than carrying out the duties of the agency. Not good, folks.
For a man who runs an agency tasked with securing our border, he’s donated for years to the one political party that’s made it known that enforcing immigration laws is not a priority: the Democratic Party. The president of the National Border Patrol Council says the acting DHS secretary should be considered anti-Trump. Giaritelli has more (via Washington Examiner):
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who was accused of sabotaging the Trump administration's deportation operation because of a personal opposition to the plan, has given for years solely to Democratic causes, according to federal records.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, wrote in an op-ed Monday that the secretary and his wife's donations only to Democratic politicians and organizations over the past 12 years could explain why McAleenan allegedly leaked a nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid to the media last week, forcing the administration to cancel the extensive undertaking after months of planning.
"He has proven his political leanings in his actions, including his campaign contributions," Judd wrote in a Fox News op-ed. "By definition, Kevin McAleenan should be considered anti-Trump."
Perhaps the Prince and Princess do the searching and vetting which would explain all the bad actors (never DJT, Dem plant, etc).
I think the pool of honest Constitution defending candidates is extremely small.
They ought to go outside the system - to real life business people to get candidates. Or what about Sheriff Clark or someone like him?
Or maybe they should get paid like piece work - for every illegal they deport they get money - for every % of illegals who don’t get in they get money. That ought to work in D.C. We’d soon learn how deep their “values” are.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who was accused of sabotaging the Trump administration’s deportation operation because of a personal opposition to the plan,
Who the hell does the vetting?
Deep state Republicans. You have to understand, both party’s feed off the same gutwagon, and Trump is about to overturn it. They are enemas of the deep state. Hard to identify, and will be harder to root out. Trump should strictly hire non government employees to head departments, and fully vet them as trump supporters, and not republicans.
All SES. The SES is a club that help each other advance and that ensure only like minded people politically are recommended for SES training. Just like civil service the SES should be terminated and replaced by ar will workers.
Can’t fire them they are SES civil service.
I have a ‘gut feeling’ one really doesn’t have to go much further than ‘daughter dear & hubby’.
If they were so ‘brilliant’ to be Chief advisors to the President of the United States, why weren’t they just appointed to run HIS ESTATE, MONEY & PROPERTIES in the interim?
This his insistence of hiring Lance Prebius(sp?) and other members of the RNC, his insistence of hiring supposed ‘gun slingers’ and firing them at whimsy - deserved or not...
You just don’t hire a Bannon or Bolton or ‘Mad Dog’ and expect them to go quietly when you fire or release them.
They got their title and reputation by being who they are and to expect them to go quietly is being very naive.
And when invited will gladly go on the ‘News Shows’ and garner their opinion and innuendos.. don’t have to come out and accuse someone of something, just hint in that direction and the MSM will take care of the rest.
Bolton has always been one to get the LIBs panties in a wad and I figured when PDJT hired him it was basically to tweak the LIBs.
He lets all these former FBI and CIA and NSA types ‘hang around’ and take potshots at him on daily basis so if and when they do get charged it will be hard to convict them because they will then be able to say he is just being vindictive
Much like the ‘we can’t charge these youths who have went through enough because they are orphans’ YET, the youths were the one that killed their parents defense
If he is the leaker, I wonder if he gave even a moment’s thought to the danger he created for the ICE Agents? If the raids had gone forward with the targets forewarned, the likelihood of violence was great. Perhaps this is why the leak occurred. Clearly, the President and the people on the ground would not intentionally expose the Agents and the targets to injury so the raids had to be called off. If he is the leaker, then he should be fired.
Top DHS official quit after investigation into expenses of ‘thousands of dollars’ on personal meals
by Anna Giaritelli | September 19, 2019
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-dhs-official-quit-after-investigation-into-expenses-of-thousands-of-dollars-on-personal-meals
Federal investigators last month recommended that the Department of Homeland Security’s top spokesman be fired immediately for charging large sums of personal dining expenses to the government, three officials have told the Washington Examiner.
But Homeland Security acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Andrew Meehan, who resigned amid the investigation, is not due to leave his post until Friday, more than four weeks after his resignation was first reported Aug. 22.
At the time, some senior administration officials claimed the right-hand man to acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan was departing because of friction between the White House and DHS leadership. But several sources said he abruptly resigned in August for a different reason, and the agency’s leaders, including McAleenan, were aware of the investigation and its findings but have not forced him out in the month since then.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where Meehan worked as assistant commissioner of public affairs from May 2018 through April 2019, concluded an internal affairs investigation this summer. Senior agency officials recommended Meehan, who is technically still a Customs and Border Protection employee serving in an acting position as a senior Homeland Security official, be fired immediately for improper use of his government credit card. Customs and Border Protection is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
One official said Meehan, who is 38 and at last count is making an annual salary of $168,000, was expensing “thousands of dollars” of meal costs to the government to the extent the agency had decided in senior-level talks that he needed to be removed. The investigation was kept quiet, and only those at the top of Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security were aware of the investigation’s details and its findings.
Customs and Border Protection declined to comment about why Meehan was not fired or if it has referred the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, saying it does not comment on “individual employee matters.” Meehan and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment. It’s not clear whether Meehan has had access to his expense account since August or if he will have to repay Homeland Security.
Meehan has been on temporary assignment at department’s Washington headquarters since April, when then-CBP Commissioner McAleenan was promoted to acting DHS secretary and soon after brought his communications aide, Meehan, with him to serve in a post meant for an appointee.
A government biography for Meehan indicated the Homeland Security spokesman had no prior public affairs jobs before landing at Customs and Border Protection in 2018 and had worked in various CEO and policy positions for several Washington-based lobbying groups.
The Washington Examiner reported earlier this summer that McAleenan and one senior aide are at the center of a federal investigation into a leak of sensitive law enforcement information that compromised an Immigration and Customs Enforcement nationwide operation targeting illegal immigrants in late June.
Five officials told the Washington Examiner at the time they believed McAleenan, a long-time Democratic donor whose household made large donations to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, had an aide leak the ICE operation because it risked the safety of the ICE officers.
McAleenan had disagreed in meetings for months about the enforcement plan, but the White House refused to stand down on the operation. But the leak forced then-acting ICE Director Mark Morgan to call it off.
Under McAleenan and Meehan, the department also brought up Jose “Lu” Maheda from the Border Patrol. Maheda is the temporary press secretary in a deputy assistant secretary position that is meant to be filled with a political appointee.
He was revealed by several Border Patrol officials as allegedly having faked a crime, staging a break-in to his own government vehicle while on duty as an agent in the 1990s when he mistakenly thought his gun had been stolen from it. In fact, his supervisor had taken it because Maheda had left it unsecured. Maheda is still on detail to Homeland Security.
Two possibilities:
1) Donald Trump does the vetting, and he's not what he claims to be.
2) Someone he trusts does the vetting, and that someone is betraying his (and our) trust.
I think it's (2) ... and that problem needs to be eliminated regardless of who it is.
Or, equally culpable, a Deep State never-Trumpster RINO.
Ryan-vetted, McCain-vetted, Romney-vetted, Bush-vetted, Bush-vetted, Rove-vetted, NRSC member, etc.
Or a member of their long-term staffs - pushed by the above group.
If you want qualified people to fill these positions they have to be moved out of DC. The dirty little secret is that most sector chiefs have families and will not uproot them to live in a place they despise.
Nails it......
Haha...that’s too logical and antithetical to government. What you promote...you get more of...
So very true. It is unfortunate that Democrats wear
their treachery like a badge of honor these days.
I have worked in Washington. There are many people there who are are political climbers - self-absorbed, self-righteous, arrogant pricks.
“Vetting” only helps find out if they are drug addicts or potential child molesters. Its impossible to fully know which ones will stab you in the back. Many are capable of it.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-pence-cabinet-picks-231389
Transition communications adviser Jason Miller announced Monday night that the pair will be reviewing “a number of names” for cabinet and senior White House positions in the Trump-Pence administration Tuesday.
“There has been a lot of work put in by both the Vice President-elect and a number of members of the transition team,” he said, according to a pool report.
“I don’t want to put a finite time able. Obviously, inauguration day is not getting further away. And people need to get going. This is an absolute top priority understood by the President-elect and the Vice President-elect.”
Though Miller would not say whether any decisions were forthcoming in light of the meeting, he stressed that any gathering between Trump and Pence signified strong deliberations, adding: “If the Vice President-elect is getting together with the President-elect to discuss names, then I would say that it’s serious, obviously.”
Asked about reports that Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the leading candidate to become Trump’s secretary of defense, Miller lavished the senator with praise.
“I’m a huge fan of Sen. Sessions and the President-elect will be lucky to have him in any capacity,” he said.
10 revealing tidbits about Mike and Karen Pence in new book on vice presidents
Indiana’s former senator reluctantly agreed to be Trump’s director of national intelligence because Pence repeatedly asked him to, according to the book. Once in the job, Dan Coats — who had nearly two decades of experience in Congress and also served as ambassador to Germany during 9/11 — nearly found it a little jarring to be told by Trump to talk to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, about a highly sensitive national security issue, according to an unnamed source.
Maybe their political leanings, donations and stocks, etc. need to be checked as well.
Someone is doing a horrible job vetting these people unless those doing the vetting are anti-Trump.
I honestly wonder how much influence Javanka has.
How did he manage to acquire and manage his empire without having good and loyal people working for him?
Those were the mean streets of New York; this is the D.C. swamp -— an whole different level of evil -— we’re talking world domination and every sordid, seamy type of corruption money and power can buy.
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