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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Nov 12, 2024.

  1. adoo

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    just my guess,

    that includes the evidence of Trump / Epstein's dalliance w under-age girls.
    but, Musk, while heading DOGE, got to that evidence first.​
     
  2. Rocket River

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    How confident should we be in the loyal to Trump first, yes men of his admin?
     
  4. Space Ghost

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    Issacman is back! SpaceX is about to rock and roll

     
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  5. Amiga

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    WSJ:

    A pilot fired over Kristi Noem’s missing blanket and the constant chaos inside DHS

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    A blanket and a badge
    Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.

    In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.

    The DHS spokeswoman didn’t address the episode but said the secretary has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”

    In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push. Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training.

    The administration was preparing to bring on Tom Feeley, a former top ICE official in New York, as its new director when Lewandowski asked Feeley if he would be willing to issue him and several other political officials badges and guns. Feeley declined, and he was subsequently passed over for the top job at ICE.


    Lewandowski next turned to ICE’s legal office for help writing him a legal justification to be issued the badge and gun. A top ICE lawyer, Ken Padilla, also declined to sign off, and days later he was placed on administrative leave. He was later demoted and moved to FEMA, the people said. Padilla declined to comment.

    Lewandowski eventually persuaded other lawyers to sign off. The ICE director’s autopen was used to sign the paperwork, the people said.

    The DHS spokeswoman denied that Lewandowski made efforts to secure a federal gun or signed paperwork, adding that Lewandowski didn’t talk to Feeley and that Padilla was put on administrative leave for unrelated reasons. The spokeswoman didn’t address any efforts to get a badge.

    Efforts to issue Lewandowski a gun stalled after The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations inquired about the incident last year, the people said. Still, Lewandowski has been spotted by DHS staff sporting a badge, emblazoned with the words “Homeland Security.”

    Write to Michelle Hackman at michelle.hackman@wsj.com, Josh Dawsey at Joshua.Dawsey@WSJ.com and Tarini Parti at tarini.parti@wsj.com
     
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  7. adoo

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    what an admission by the former heroin addict !


     
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    Legend.
     
  9. Amiga

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    The DNI, ladies and gentlemen, is saying threat assessments are not her responsibility. Read that again. The ODNI's own definition says intelligence exists to "warn of potential threats" to national security. Assessing threats is the job. It is, in fact, the whole job.

    This wasn't an offhand remark. It came at the Worldwide Threats hearing, where the DNI's entire purpose is to present exactly those assessments to Congress.

    She also quietly omitted language from her prepared remarks showing Iran had not rebuilt its nuclear capability after U.S. airstrikes, conveniently avoiding a contradiction of the president's claims.

    This is the DNI subordinating the intelligence community's independence to political loyalty. She should resign.


    Tulsi Gabbard stuns senator by saying it’s not her job to ‘determine what is ... an imminent threat’ to the US

    “It is not the intelligence community’s responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat,” Gabbard said.


    What is Intelligence? | Office of the Director of National Intelligence

    Intelligence is information gathered within or outside the U.S. that involves threats to our nation, its people, property, or interests; development, proliferation, or use of weapons of mass destruction; and any other matter bearing on the U.S. national or homeland security. Intelligence can provide insights not available elsewhere that warn of potential threats and opportunities, assess probable outcomes of proposed policy options, provide leadership profiles on foreign officials, and inform official travelers of counterintelligence and security threats.
     
  10. Rocket River

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    At this point . . .. . I cannot help but think this is the best time to be doing Federal Crime
    If you not on Trump's hit list . .. Patel ain't looking for you
    The Serial Killer industry is probably Sky Rocketing

    Rocket River
     
  11. rimrocker

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    It was much, much worse than that. Watch the entirety of Ossoff's questioning. He just eviscerates her. But it's not a blustery "destruction" that we often celebrate when someone yells louder and throws more crap on the wall than the other person. It was cool and detached, using Gabbard's and the administration's own words, trapping her in her lies and putting her in an impossible position because of those lies. Plus, like most of this administration, she's not very bright.

     
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    How is there not a Markwayne thread?

    His confirmation hearing was something else. I'm disappointed nobody asked about PEDs/steroids, but Rand Paul came close enough I guess.

    Anyway, the craziest part was where my man claimed that in 2015, as a second-term Republican Congressman from Oklahoma and a plumber having no college degree or military experience, someone in the Obama administration asked him to go on a Top Secret mission where he had to spend weeks training, including Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape. This was so secret that only four people knew about it. One of those must have been my secret girlfriend from Canada during my 5th grade summer.

     
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