h/t Instapundit
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked the remaining Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys - 46 in all - to hand in their resignation. As he notes in his request, this is standard procedure when a new administration takes office. You wanna represent "refugees" & "undocumented immigrants" - do it from outside DoJ!
[Breitbart] Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) director Michael Hayden did his best in 2016 to elect Hillary Clinton. Worse, Hayden made the inflammatory and frightening claim on CNN at the time that Donald Trump was a "clear and present danger" to the country.
Given his background, those words carried weight and contributed to the climate of fear and division that burdens our democracy today, including within the intelligence agencies.
Hayden also signed a letter last August urging Americans to vote against Donald Trump. Anything Hayden says about politics today must therefore be interpreted in that context. He is hardly a disinterested observer, and clearly resents the fact that the American people ignored his unsolicited advice.
#1
Thank you for your most recent 'unsolicited advice' General Hayden, but if it's all the same to you, I'll make up my own mind regarding legitimate news.
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How should Trump go about replacing the failed CIA? Posted by Bright Pebbles
Early retirement or transfer to EPA of everyone in the leadership tiers of GG-15 or higher, (Chief of Station, Deputy Chief of Station and frequent deployer personnel excluded). Discontinue their offensive military capability to include private air force. Full congressional disclosure of budget. Insist they return to their former mission of intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination with emphasis on WMD Counterproliferation. Some improvement should be seen in six months, or in as little as three days.
#8
As I recall, the CIA was supposed to be the central clearing house for all the disparate intelligence agencies of the DoD etc. Now that role is called Homeland security or DNI. I'd like to see a total reorg of the intelligence community to streamline the function and make sure responsibility goes with authority and Congress knows all the players and their roles.
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Insist they return to their former mission of intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination with emphasis on WMD Counterproliferation.
But Sir, all that stuff is hard. And like work and stuff. Can't we just stir up shit and run drugs and guns to finance the aforementioned pot-stirring? Also, please sign my expense report. (oh gawd, please don't let him bring up that Fall of the Soviet Union thing again)
#12
CIA/NSA/FBI doesn't need to tap Trump; just ask the Brits to do it. Commonwealth except New Zealand (the self righteous pricks). That is what 8 years of lawlessness gets you.
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Hayden has been having weird things coming out of his pie hole lately.
Not weird at all. Hayden was a Clinton holdover. You think Bill Clinton picked people for their ability? One thing I've learned from Bush II's tenure is his remarkable ability to pick the least competent, least trustworthy people to hold important offices. Case in point - Maliki and Karzai. Bush himself was a lousy pol - if being a good pol means having the ability to influence public opinion. Instead of combating the media narrative about Katrina, he hid from it. He also did the "Mission Accomplished" thing way too early. Yes - it related to the aircraft carrier's mission, but he should have stayed away from it, given the fact that it fed into a larger narrative.
#3
I think if you asked a bunch of front line prosecutors -- the folks who actually prosecute criminals in court-- who in their office they could most easily dispense with, the answer would be pretty uniform.
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#4
Making the 'right' enemies is a sure sign of success.
[Breitbart] Swiss financial services company Credit Suisse is warning that coffee giant Starbucks’ announcement of a plan to hire 10,000 Muslim refugees has clearly hurt the company by negatively impacting sales and damaging the company’s brand.
"Our work shows a sudden drop in brand sentiment following announcement of the refugee hiring initiative on Jan. 29th, to flattish from a run-rate of ~+80 (on an index of -100 to +100). Net sentiment has since recovered, but has seen significant volatility in recent weeks," equity analyst Jason West said, according to CNBC.
At the end of February, it was reported that the Starbucks Coffee brand took a major hit after its Muslim "refugee" announcement made in January in response to President Donald Trump’s temporary travel moratorium.
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Yeah, I don't know.
I stopped Starbucking because I wouldn't wait in line like a drone. It seems my local has become a last bastion for the "Legions of the Left".
#4
People don't
a) want to catch disease from their coffee
b) don't want politics with a hot drink
c) don't want to be patronized
d) don't want to possibly fund terrorism.
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