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| New Defense secretary reportedly boots Pres. Trump picks from Pentagon boards | |
| 2021-02-03 | |
| [NYPost] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cleaned house of appointees to the Pentagon’s policy advisory boards, dismissing eleventh-hour Trump administration nominees and those of previous White Houses, according to a report Tuesday. Austin booted every member of the roughly dozen advisory boards on Monday, allowing him to avoid having to personally fire former President Donald Trump’s appointees, the Wall Street Journal reported. Skipping down to the exceptionally encouraging news: Dismissed along with Bossie and Lewandowski were former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger.
The two U.S. Defense Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Austin would be asking hundreds of members on the 42 different boards to leave by Feb. 16. The cost of running the boards could be in the millions of dollars, one of the officials said. The move does not affect at least two well-known Trump aides: Sean Spicer, a former White House spokesman who was appointed to the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, and Kellyanne Conway, a senior Trump aide who was appointed to the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. The second official said the academy positions were outside the scope of Defense Department actions. Board members appointed by Congress also would not be affected, the officials said. Related: Lloyd Austin: 2021-01-31 Australian military to continue patrolling South China Sea as Beijing warns Taiwan independence ‘means war’ Lloyd Austin: 2021-01-28 Pentagon declares climate change a 'national security issue' Lloyd Austin: 2021-01-25 Biden to lift Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in military | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Dpoing what Trump should have done Day One: CLEAN HOUSE. Donald Trump didn’t realize how entrenched the deep state is, and hoped to lure the still-idealistic lower tiers into helping him work around it. Next time — and there will be a next time, whether or not he is the point man — that will be scheduled for Inauguration Day afternoon. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-03 15:34 |
| #5 Wow, so many chairs for sale, so much prestige available for bidding. You have to admit democrats know how to capitalize governing ! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-02-03 12:30 |
| #4 The Pentagon has always been a rotting ground for political generals. The are just open about it now. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2021-02-03 11:19 |
| #3 legs |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-02-03 07:59 |
| #2 I worked with a guy who had a plaque on his desk that said "God so loved the world, He didn't send a committee." Government, in and out of the defense sphere, needs many fewer of these "24 arms and lege, 12 stomachs and no brains" agglomerations. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-02-03 07:58 |
| #1 Dpoing what Trump should have done Day One: CLEAN HOUSE. When the GOP takes the WH back, that should be item one on the agenda: Every Bush-Obama-Biden appointee: resignation letters on the desk, day 1. |
| Posted by: Deadeye Jaiting7534 2021-02-03 03:48 |