Entire state dept senior management resigns

[playahaitian]

In these times, the U.S. can't afford this. These aren't just "suits" quitting, these are the brains and people that know where the "bodies are buried".

devil's advocate...

Isn't this actually irresponsible?

Cause if these people resign and Trump replaces them with all his cronies?

Don't the AMERICAN PEOPLE end up suffering the most?

Although they DID vote for him.

Something like this could potentially be DISASTROUS!

 

[ViCiouS]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/polit...d-to-leave-by-trump-administration/index.html


Washington (CNN)Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to "clean house" at Foggy Bottom.

Trump is a businessman

no he isn't - none of his businesses make money, he never created an organization - businessmen have corporations not LLCs functioning as s-corps to hide debt and launder money

I'm SURE THERE IS SOMEONE AROUND HIM THAT WILL START SONNING HIM AND HE WILL SLOW HIS ROLL A BIT...

not going to happen... he fires people that are honest with him

They'll be back....

As contractors.

Trump didn't just open the money faucet....he broke the valve.

Everyone is gonna run the govt pockets.

Upgrade your LinkedIn account.

*two cents*

that is not a level of gov't that you want to see outsourced - and I'm pretty sure its illegal- can't see intel or military being ok with it

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/polit...d-to-leave-by-trump-administration/index.html

They didn't resign. Trump told them to get the fuck out. Get ready for a vastly different foreign policy under this administration.

yeah ok -
I got a sweet heart real estate deal in Brooklyn for you

fyi those are civil servant positions... not appointees

 

[chillwillwonka]

devil's advocate...

Isn't this actually irresponsible?

Cause if these people resign and Trump replaces them with all his cronies?

Don't the AMERICAN PEOPLE end up suffering the most?

Although they DID vote for him.

Something like this could potentially be DISASTROUS!

I didn't detect a disagreement.

 

[ViCiouS]

devil's advocate...

Isn't this actually irresponsible?

Cause if these people resign and Trump replaces them with all his cronies?

Don't the AMERICAN PEOPLE end up suffering the most?

Although they DID vote for him.

Something like this could potentially be DISASTROUS!

those are civil servant positions... not appointees
any replacements that aren't deputies or department heads under these guys- will be lost

 

[tallblacknyc]

WWIII

more like civil war 2

 

[tallblacknyc]

is there a way they can force him out like impeachment or other ways other than a "sunroof car"


somehow i don't see this guy making it to 4yrs

 

[Esther]

is there a way they can force him out like impeachment or other ways other than a "sunroof car"


somehow i don't see this guy making it to 4yrs

I give him 2 years.

 

[easy_b]

maybe it was time for them to go if they been their that long

No those people have knowledge of things just like someone said in another post they know where the bodies are buried and they know how to get to certain people

 

[Coldchi]

looks like there are some job openings in the state dept.

 

[ViCiouS]

is there a way they can force him out like impeachment or other ways other than a "sunroof car"


somehow i don't see this guy making it to 4yrs

the VP can bring a claim in congress - that Trump is mentally unfit...

 

[Naha-Nago]

is there a way they can force him out like impeachment or other ways other than a "sunroof car"


somehow i don't see this guy making it to 4yrs

Hell ol fuck boy might make the whole eight.

To much money can be fleeced from our country made while he's in office and he's strategically placing all his boy's- "former" ceo's of major global corporations- in positions of influence to help him maintain the keys of power. Google "Rex Tillerman Russia Oil" and that'll explain 75% of the shit going on right now.....

Dude is a business man of the highest order, he knows how to set shit up.

Minus an uprising only seen in 3rd worlds dictatorships once the despot loses the keys of power shitbird ain't going nowhere. Not until he run these pockets.

Please watch this video...



*two cents*

 

[veritech]

Please watch this video...



*two cents*

This video is required viewing to understand what is happening right now.

 

[ViCiouS]

Hell ol fuck boy might make the whole eight.

To much money can be fleeced from our country made while he's in office and he's strategically placing all his boy's- "former" ceo's of major global corporations- in positions of influence to help him maintain the keys of power. Google "Rex Tillerman Russia Oil" and that'll explain 75% of the shit going on right now.....

Dude is a business man of the highest order, he knows how to set shit up.

Minus an uprising only seen in 3rd worlds dictatorships once the despot loses the keys of power shitbird ain't going nowhere. Not until he run these pockets.

Please watch this video...



*two cents*

Trump's policies are going to tap pockets of some large gov't contractors - but we'll see
and I'm interested to see how healthcare plays out, because he is telling everyone he wants universal

 

[playahaitian]

is there a way they can force him out like impeachment or other ways other than a "sunroof car"


somehow i don't see this guy making it to 4yrs

he gonna be in there for 8 years..

I just got that feeling.

Cause I knew he was gonna make it in the first place and do EXACTLY what he BEEN doing.

And he gorilla pimping in his first 100 days in ways I thought President Obama WAS gonna do his first and second term.

 

[veritech]

i can't believe that this shit is not making the news channels.

 

[ViCiouS]

i can't believe that this shit is not making the news channels.

there hasn't been serious reporting since 9/11 and after Dan Rather got hit almost every news agency has been all pussy

 

[tallblacknyc]

i hear you guys but something juss says he's gonna rub the wrong people wrong and he 's gonna do a "roofless appearance" somewhere... i don't really care about politricks but something got my senses acting a lil funny that something gonna happen that's gonna make huge headlines with this guy...i'll sit back and wait on this 1

 

[Naha-Nago]

i hear you guys but something juss says he's gonna rub the wrong people wrong and he 's gonna do a "roofless appearance" somewhere... i don't really care about politricks but something got my senses acting a lil funny that something gonna happen that's gonna make huge headlines with this guy...i'll sit back and wait on this 1

If it does it's going to be on some John Lennon / Selena type shit...

"I was your biggest supporter..."

*two cents*

 

[Naha-Nago]

This video is required viewing to understand what is happening right now.

I post that video at least once a week since he took office.

*two cents*

 

[Camille]

 

[tallblacknyc]

If it does it's going to be on some John Lennon / Selena type shit...

"I was your biggest supporter..."

*two cents*

i thought of that to

 

[ViCiouS]

Trump’s Executive Orders Were Brought to You by Breitbart
Donald Trump began his presidency with a blitzkrieg of delusional lies and reactionary edicts. As the president’s mouth lay waste to the concept of objective truth — and his pen tore through Obamacare, abortion rights, sanctuary cities, environmental protection, the fragile hopes of refugees, and, quite possibly, the United Nations — liberals stared slack-jawed at their screens, wishing this was all just some nightmarish reality show.

And, in a sense, it actually may be.

Trump is an expert in spectacle, not governance. Since November 8, he has applied that expertise relentlessly. As president-elect, he cut down on government waste by tweeting angry demands at Lockheed Martin over Twitter — and protected American jobs by presenting corporate-expansion plans drafted before his election as products of his own genius.


These moves were fairly easy to identify as acts of theater, not policy. Once Trump started signing leather-bound documents in the White House, however, it was hard to see the president’s actions as mere photo ops — no matter how many cameras had been crammed into the Oval Office.

But now, it appears those executive orders may have been all sound and fury — signifying more than nothing, but less than they appeared to.

Part of why Trump has been able to dash off executive orders at such a frenetic pace — even as the rest of his transition is woefully behind schedule — is that he has neglected to have them reviewed by relevant cabinet agencies, congressional committees, or legal counsel.

Rather, the documents have been drafted with the consultation of virtually no one but Breitbart mastermind Steve Bannon, and his fellow right-wing nationalist Stephen Miller, according to Politico.

And as it turns out, governing by Breitbart op-ed has its drawbacks. For example, Trump’s executive order on the Keystone XL was drafted without the consultation of the State Department, despite the fact that the company behind the pipeline is suing the U.S. for $15 billion — and aspects of the order could plausibly strengthen the company’s case: Among other things, the order requires any company building a pipeline to use materials manufactured domestically — a provision that may contravene various trade treaties that the U.S. is bound by.

Meanwhile, Trump’s much-ballyhooed order calling for the construction of a border wall — and a tripling of border-enforcement agents — cannot be executed without congressional appropriations that could prove hard to come by. Which is to say, the executive order does not fulfill Trump’s campaign promise, but merely reaffirms his commitment to fulfilling it. Further, Trump’s order stripping funding from sanctuary cities is a legally tendentious proposition, which the administration seems to have asked zero constitutional lawyers to weigh in on.

His order on the Affordable Care Act doesn’t appear to make any “tangible” policy changes, in the view of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

And then there are the drafted executive orders that Trump has yet to sign. One of these would reportedly require agencies to reconsider using interrogation techniques that had been banned as torture — an idea that Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo were “blindsided” by, according to Politico. Another would cut U.S. funding to the International Criminal Court by 40 percent – even though the U.S. does not fund the International Criminal Court.

Ultimately, though, the president may care less about whether these executive orders are effective in policy terms, than if they play well in theatrical ones. Per Politico:

Trump, less than a week into his presidency, is continuing the improvisational style he used to run his company, his campaign and his transition. He’s relying on a small circle of trusted advisers to act decisively. And he’s emphasizing the theatrics of autographing official-looking leather-bound documents in the Oval Office.

People familiar with Trump’s planning say he wanted daily events to show supporters he would follow through on the items of his campaign agenda. “He was determined to show people that he’s getting to work from Day One,” one person familiar with his planning said. This person said he wanted to take charge and show his supporters that former President Barack Obama’s tenure was decisively over.
Meanwhile, the congressional GOP is camped out in Philadelphia, waiting for Trump to give them some hint of what his intentions are with regard to actual legislation. The Washington Post reports:

One question among House Republicans is how many of the recommendations within the official House GOP policy blueprint, “A Better Way,” Trump will also take up. Also unclear is how much leverage these Republican lawmakers will have to negotiate with a president who does not like dissent and regularly takes to cable news and Twitter to lash out at critics.

“He’s only been there a couple of days, I get it, but we do need to know this: Is he going to be with us when we go forward? Where does he stand on these issues?” said Rep. Roger Williams (R-Tex.). “There’s a lot of questions we need to ask him so we know where he is, so we don’t go out down the dirt road and he’s going on down the freeway.”
There are at least two ways of interpreting all this: Either Trump hopes to strong-arm the federal bureaucracy and Congress into realizing Steve Bannon’s wildest dreams — or he just wants to execute some well-staged photo-ops while Mike Pence does all that slow boring of hard boards.

Which is to say: Either Donald Trump is the president, or he just plays one on TV.

 

[ViCiouS]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...mp-transition-cabinet-behind-schedule/511928/
The Trump transition is substantially late start to vetting Cabinet nominees for security clearances and financial conflicts of interest threatens to leave many senior posts vacant. The delays, which were described by people familiar with the transition as well as several congressional aides, could hamper the new president’s ability to deliver the swift change he has promised in Washington.

In the weeks after the election, Trump made a show of naming members of his Cabinet in rapid succession, giving the impression that his transition was proceeding speedily, faster even than many people expected after such a shocking result on November 8. But the slew of nominations obscured an important detail: Trump’s team had done little or no vetting of those appointees before or immediately after the election, as the Obama transition had done. Potential picks were rarely asked to submit information for a standard FBI background check or financial documents needed for disclosure requirements and an ethics agreement. That meant that a process that takes weeks or even months did not begin until late November or December in some cases...

...“With these billionaires, it’s going to take a lot more time,” said Richard Painter, who served as the chief ethics lawyer in the Bush White House from 2005 to 2007. Painter recalled that when he joined the government 12 years ago, it took him half a day to fill out the initial financial disclosure form. “But,” he said, “I was just a law professor. I have mutual funds. I don’t even own any individual stocks, and it’s really a pretty boring report.”
By comparison, when Painter helped shepherd Hank Paulson to confirmation as treasury secretary in 2006, it took the Goldman Sachs CEO and a team of pricey outside lawyers two-and-a-half weeks to complete the same form. The task of vetting and then preparing ethics agreements for Trump’s nominees now falls to the Office of Government Ethics, a relatively small federal agency with about 80 employees and an annual budget of $16 million. The office reviews each nominee’s financial disclosure report for potential conflicts of interest and then instructs them what assets they must unload, among other steps they may have to take, to comply with the law once they take office. The result is a signed agreement that is sent to the Senate and posted publicly. Tillerson, for example, is expected to have to divest himself completely from Exxon Mobil, including forgoing any stock options to which he may be entitled...

...Where did things go awry for the Trump transition? Close observers of the process point to his decision, made just a few days after the election, to replace New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as chairman of his transition committee, along with some of the people who had spent months doing the prep work in Washington for a possible Trump administration...
...The case of Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the high-ranking Republican congresswoman who was poised to become Trump’s nominee for interior secretary before the president-elect was persuaded to pick Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana instead. Over the course of about 10 days, McMorris Rodgers met twice with Trump and had phone calls with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and one of Trump’s sons, Donald Jr., according to a Republican familiar with the process. Her name was leaked to the press, which reported that she was likely to get the interior job. Yet at no time did Trump officials collect paperwork of any kind from McMorris Rodgers. “We were not asked for anything at all, ever,” this Republican said....

...The slow pace of the Trump transition is not limited to the vetting of top Cabinet picks. Aside from a dozen or so senior White House advisers, ambassadors, and domestic agency heads, the president-elect’s team has moved to fill hardly any of the 4,000 political appointee positions across the federal government, including 1,100 that are subject to Senate confirmation. Those include under secretaries, assistant secretaries, general counsels, chief financial officers, and agency administrators and directors, among other posts....
...they’ll be relying heavily on career civil servants to carry out the enormous change they’ve demanded of the government. That alone might prove to be a significant obstacle. “You can’t effectively change the government,” Stier noted, “if you don’t truly understand how it operates.”

 

[bdquest9]

This is what patriotic resistance looks like.

 

[RoomService]

Trump said he fired their asses

 

[ViCiouS]

Trump said he fired their asses

alternative facts

 

[Aldebaran]

Border patrol chief out

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-morgan-border-patrol-chief-out-trump-border-wall-decree/

Mark Morgan, Border Patrol chief, out a day after Trump border wall decree
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WASHINGTON -- The Border Patrol chief is leaving the agency on the heels of President Trump’s announcement of an ambitious plan to build a massive wall at the Mexican border and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents.

Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan was asked to resign earlier this week by the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the agency, CBS News has learned.

Morgan’s departure was part of an effort by the incoming administration at the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection to show the agency will be headed in a new direction, a source told CBS News.


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Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that Morgan’s last official day in office will be Tuesday.

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D/N doubles down.

“I wish him every success in the future,” Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in a statement.

Morgan was named to the post in June and took office in October. The former FBI agent briefly led the internal affairs department at the Border Patrol’s parent agency before heading the agency of roughly 20,000 agents.

Morgan leaves office only seven months after being named the first outsider to lead the agency since it was founded in 1924.


Trump unveils executive orders on immigration, border wall

The union was incensed when Morgan told a Senate hearing Dec. 1, in response to a question from Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., that he supported a comprehensive immigration overhaul, which is often interpreted to include a path to citizenship for people who are in the country illegally. Morgan clarified his remarks in a note to Border Patrol staff the following week.


“I want to be clear what my position is regarding immigration reform,” Morgan wrote. “I do not, as some have suggested, support what is often referred to as ‘blanket amnesty.’ This assertion could not be further from my position. I encourage everyone to listen to my testimony.”

Despite pressure from the union, many agency officials said Morgan appeared to embrace the job. Less than a week ago, the first message on his new Twitter account read, “Chief Morgan here -- excited to use this account to share the latest news and events of the #BorderPatrol with followers.”

Good news to my ears!

This Pepper Belly Hugger was wrong man for the job!

 

[RoomService]

alternative facts

 

[kain]

Don was going to fire them anyway. He doesn't want folks with experience and knowledge. That might challenge him so they just left on their own terms.

 

[kain]

Thats one ugly bitch.

 

[RoomService]

Thats one ugly bitch.

And she's only 50

 

[Blackmayne]

lol,

mayne... I told yall to get that big ass bucket of popcorn,

aint even in a month yet, and the drama is on full blast..

Not even a full week bro!!

 

[BDR]

Thats one ugly bitch.

The pussy good tho

 

[playahaitian]

there hasn't been serious reporting since 9/11 and after Dan Rather got hit almost every news agency has been all pussy

^^^

BOOM

 

[playahaitian]

Trump Just Replaced the State Department’s Senior Management
By Eric LevitzShareTweetSharePin ItEmailCommentopposing the policies of the department that he has been appointed to lead.

But there was a simple answer to any qualms these qualities might inspire: Should the secretary of State have trouble navigating the federal bureaucracy — or resisting the urge to put the interests of Exxon’s shareholders above those of the American people — the department’s senior civil servants would keep him from going astray.

And then, on Wednesday, the Trump administration forced out four senior-level management officials at the State Department.


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Breaking: Four top @StateDept Mgmt officials all fired by Trump admin, part of effort to "clean house" - officials tell @eliselabottcnn

12:50 PM - 26 Jan 2017

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Prior to CNN’s report, the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin had written that the officials may have resigned at their own volition. But a deliberate housecleaning is actually more consistent with Rogin’s dispatch.

Tillerson was actually inside the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, taking meetings and getting the lay of the land. I reported Wednesday morning that the Trump team was narrowing its search for his No. 2, and that it was looking to replace the State Department’s long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy, who has been in that job for nine years, was actively involved in the transition and was angling to keep that job under Tillerson, three State Department officials told me.

Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

All four of the career officers had submitted letters of resignation shortly after Trump’s inauguration – a longstanding tradition that empowers the new administration to select its own staff, should it wish to.

However, presidents usually do not accept those resignations until successors have been found and confirmed. Trump’s hasty housecleaning leaves a void at the department: Combined with the recent retirements of other senior staff, Wednesday’s departures leave the State Department with virtually no one experienced at managing its domestic bureaucracy, overseas offices, and staff, according to Rogin.

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, State Department chief of staff during John Kerry’s tenure, told Rogin. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”


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I have been doing national security in Washington for over 35 years. I have never seen anything like this. http://wpo.st/_xBV2

11:50 AM - 26 Jan 2017

Opinion | The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned
All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

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“The department will not collapse,” a senior administration official assured CNN. “Everyone has good deputies. It’s a huge institutional loss, but the department has excellent subordinates and the career people will step up. They will take up the responsibility.”