Trump fires State Department IG

#76
#76
vols40 said:
Tweets about walking a dog and picking up Chinese food is freaking free reign. President should fire every MFer from the previous administration. They are such hacks
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And if it turns out the subject of the prospective IG Pompeo investigation was Saudi arm sales and Pompeo refused any interview about it?
 
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#77
Orangeburst said:
After a $40 million investigation, insufficient proof to prosecute means you aint got sheet. One big effin liberal fantasy.
Trump is a Russian agent. LMAO.
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No it means there is insufficient sheet to feel strongly a guilty verdict will result
 
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PointGuard said:
So now you’re going to change the nomenclature? What happened to your sheet?
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A semantical slip. Regardless you have nothing to prosecute, so that is all that matters. Frankly I find the whole Russian narrative delusional and pathetic.
 
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lawgator1 said:
The supreme irony of the Trump administration is that his supporters bought into the notion that Trump would be transparent and that he would clean things up, as a businessman he'd have no tolerance for abuse of the public trust. That he and his team would be different in that respect.

Well, I guess so. It turns out that they are FAR WORSE than any predecessor. Countless golf trips. Trips to Florida. His cabinet abusing their power left and right like this.

Trump is a con man. Cannot figure out how his supporters don't see that.
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I mean seriously dude. You remind me of Roy Munson. You’re out there milking that cow but there is no cow.
 
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#90
President Donald Trump has now fired 4 people who worked as an Inspector General in less than 7 weeks:

(1) Michael Atkinson, Intelligence Community Inspector General, fired on April 3rd: This appears to have been completely done in retaliation for Atkinson performing his duties, as they are required by law, when Atkinson alerted Congress to the existence of a whistleblower complaint.

(2) Glenn Fine, Acting Defense Department Inspector General, fired on April 10th: This meant that Fine would no longer chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tasked with overseeing the $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding. This allowed Trump to fill this role with a political ally of his - Jason Abend, who was a policy adviser for Customs and Border Protection.

(3) Christi Grimm, Acting Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General, fired on May 2nd: This firing appears to have been done in retaliation, after Grimm signed off on a March OIG report that described a dire situation for frontline doctors and medical staff. This report found that the nation's hospitals were dealing with "severe" and "widespread" shortages of needed testing supplies and personal protective equipment, hampering their ability to test and respond to the coronavirus pandemic and protect medical staff. In other words, she was fired for doing her job and giving a professional opinion which ran counter to a Trump narrative.

(4) Steve Linick, State Department Inspector General, fired on May 15th: The reasons for Linick's firing are just now coming to light, but it doesn't appear to have been motivated by an investigation of Mike Pompeo's use of security detail as originally thought. During Trump's administration, Linick had issued two damning reports about the State Department - one report from August that found employees were subjected to "disrespectful" and "hostile" treatment and another report from November from within the department which found that Trump political appointees had improperly retaliated against a career civil servant. Linick will apparently be replaced by Stephen Akard, an ally of Vice President Mike Pence.

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It has become apparent that President Donald Trump's real problem is not with these individuals, but instead with the essential function of government oversight itself, which Trump would rather not have. These firings also demonstrate how Trump sees retaliation and cronyism, as acceptable forms of personnel management.
 
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PointGuard said:
You got the definition down yet? Insufficient proof to prosecute is not “no proof”
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I think the term you're looking for is 'innocent'; that's how our justice system works and is the only standard. Mueller never came within a galaxy of making a conspiracy/collusion case because there was:

A. Insufficient funding and staffing, the FBI, DOJ, intel, and Five Eyes agencies wouldn't work with him,, he had no power to threaten, bankrupt, and coerce with virtually unlimited police state powers, media and the American left were against him and called his investigation "a witchhunt". And the poor guy simply wasn't given enough time, and he didn't have the benefit of FBI handing him a year long investigation, or....

B. There was no evidence.

We know the case collapsed in Jan 2017 before Trump took office and months before Mueller was appointed. Two FISA judges and two IG reports tell us the warrants were falsified, fabricated, and thus lacked legal predication. Further, we have the declassified 2017-2018 House Intel hearings that Grenell forced Schiff to release that reveals the same people publicly implying Trump was a Russian stooge - some even saying outright he is a traitor - were saying behind closed doors they were unaware of any evidence of conspiracy/collusion. This includes Clapper, Lynch, Power, Rice, Rhodes, Yates, etc.

It doesn't get more "no proof" than that.
 
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So this guy was looking into why the administration bypassed Congress to sell about a billion dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia, after the killing of Kashoggi. Pompeo turned down an interview with the guy.

Then he gets fired.

Trump is not exactly draining the swamp, is he?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
President Donald Trump has now fired 4 people who worked as an Inspector General in less than 7 weeks:

(1) Michael Atkinson, Intelligence Community Inspector General, fired on April 3rd: This appears to have been completely done in retaliation for Atkinson performing his duties, as they are required by law, when Atkinson alerted Congress to the existence of a whistleblower complaint.

(2) Glenn Fine, Acting Defense Department Inspector General, fired on April 10th: This meant that Fine would no longer chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tasked with overseeing the $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding. This allowed Trump to fill this role with a political ally of his - Jason Abend, who was a policy adviser for Customs and Border Protection.

(3) Christi Grimm, Acting Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General, fired on May 2nd: This firing appears to have been done in retaliation, after Grimm signed off on a March OIG report that described a dire situation for frontline doctors and medical staff. This report found that the nation's hospitals were dealing with "severe" and "widespread" shortages of needed testing supplies and personal protective equipment, hampering their ability to test and respond to the coronavirus pandemic and protect medical staff. In other words, she was fired for doing her job and giving a professional opinion which ran counter to a Trump narrative.

(4) Steve Linick, State Department Inspector General, fired on May 15th: The reasons for Linick's firing are just now coming to light, but it doesn't appear to have been motivated by an investigation of Mike Pompeo's use of security detail as originally thought. During Trump's administration, Linick had issued two damning reports about the State Department - one report from August that found employees were subjected to "disrespectful" and "hostile" treatment and another report from November from within the department which found that Trump political appointees had improperly retaliated against a career civil servant. Linick will apparently be replaced by Stephen Akard, an ally of Vice President Mike Pence.

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It has become apparent that President Donald Trump's real problem is not with these individuals, but instead with the essential function of government oversight itself, which Trump would rather not have. These firings also demonstrate how Trump sees retaliation and cronyism, as acceptable forms of personnel management.
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1) Trump is not an intelligence community member, thus the whistle-blower rule should not apply to him. Secondly, the provision only considered first-hand information. IG Atkinson changed the provision to allow heresay in order for it to apply to Trump under the BS auspices of it just being so damned urgent(!) Good riddance to Resistance! rubbish.

2) & 3) I don't know his complaint with them, nor do you. Nor do I care since they serve at his pleasure. Overdue house cleaning that should have been done in Jan 2017.

4) Linick made as ass of himself during impeachment, demanding he be heard on an urgent matter. Even Dems said he was an indulgent waste of time; I've already posted in this thread. Bye, Resistance!-wipe.

Real Clear Politics reported April 7 that Trump was firing seven or more IGs.
At his pleasure.
 
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NCFisher said:
1) Trump is not an intelligence community member, thus the whistle-blower rule should not apply to him. Secondly, the provision only considered first-hand information. IG Atkinson changed the provision to allow heresay in order for it to apply to Trump under the BS auspices of it just being so damned urgent(!) Good riddance to Resistance! rubbish.

2) & 3) I don't know his complaint with them, nor do you. Nor do I care since they serve at his pleasure. Overdue house cleaning that should have been done in Jan 2017.

4) Linick made as ass of himself during impeachment, demanding he be heard on an urgent matter. Even Dems said he was an indulgent waste of time; I've already posted in this thread. Bye, Resistance!-wipe.

Real Clear Politics reported April 7 that Trump was firing seven or more IGs.
At his pleasure.
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This part which I placed in bold, is not true. I have posted about this many times. What is clear, is that Trump is fighting against government oversight and engaging in cronyism.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
President Donald Trump has now fired 4 people who worked as an Inspector General in less than 7 weeks:

(1) Michael Atkinson, Intelligence Community Inspector General, fired on April 3rd: This appears to have been completely done in retaliation for Atkinson performing his duties, as they are required by law, when Atkinson alerted Congress to the existence of a whistleblower complaint.

(2) Glenn Fine, Acting Defense Department Inspector General, fired on April 10th: This meant that Fine would no longer chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tasked with overseeing the $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding. This allowed Trump to fill this role with a political ally of his - Jason Abend, who was a policy adviser for Customs and Border Protection.

(3) Christi Grimm, Acting Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General, fired on May 2nd: This firing appears to have been done in retaliation, after Grimm signed off on a March OIG report that described a dire situation for frontline doctors and medical staff. This report found that the nation's hospitals were dealing with "severe" and "widespread" shortages of needed testing supplies and personal protective equipment, hampering their ability to test and respond to the coronavirus pandemic and protect medical staff. In other words, she was fired for doing her job and giving a professional opinion which ran counter to a Trump narrative.

(4) Steve Linick, State Department Inspector General, fired on May 15th: The reasons for Linick's firing are just now coming to light, but it doesn't appear to have been motivated by an investigation of Mike Pompeo's use of security detail as originally thought. During Trump's administration, Linick had issued two damning reports about the State Department - one report from August that found employees were subjected to "disrespectful" and "hostile" treatment and another report from November from within the department which found that Trump political appointees had improperly retaliated against a career civil servant. Linick will apparently be replaced by Stephen Akard, an ally of Vice President Mike Pence.

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It has become apparent that President Donald Trump's real problem is not with these individuals, but instead with the essential function of government oversight itself, which Trump would rather not have. These firings also demonstrate how Trump sees retaliation and cronyism, as acceptable forms of personnel management.
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Nothing to see here.
 
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evillawyer said:
Maybe when an alligator says he wants to drain the swamp we shouldn't believe him.

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You mean to tell me that this guy sold all of his voters a bill of goods???? The guy who has a career full of shady business dealings also does shady **** as President? Wow! I mean, I am shook. The best part is the fanboys still lap it up and ask for more! MAGA!!
 
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