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Wow, was that another Trumpian ruse or what?
Moving on.........what about the curious case of Anthony Tata?
Actually, not that curious. At least not for this prez. If any other prez had manipulated the system to allow Tata to reach his current position it would be a huge scandal reverberating around DC for days.
How did Tata get to where he is? Tata endeared himself to President Flim Flam using a tried-and-true method: praising Trump on Faux News and bashing his political opponents.
First, his nomination to the #3 job in the Defense Dept. was blocked by........wait for it......the (R) Sen. Inhofe of OK because of racist, Islamophobic things Tata had said. Inhofe cancelled Tata's confirmation hearing 20 minutes before it began because it was clear he would not be confirmed. So Trump had DoD Sec. Esper (who has been fired) name Tata to a temporary senior position in the Pentagon, sidestepping Congress.
Trump Puts Pentagon in Political Crossfire With Tata Appointment
Now, Tata along with some other hacks have been installed in high level positions in the Pentagon. Among them is Kash Patel. As a senior aide to Devin Nunes, Patel crafted a dubious memo, denounced by the FBI, to discredit the origins of the investigation into the Trump team’s contacts with Russia.
Also, there's Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a former NSC aide to the convicted Mike Flynn. Cohen-Watnick was one of the NSC aides who reportedly helped Nunes invent a scandal over the “unmasking” of Trump officials whose communications were swept up in U.S. surveillance of foreign targets.
Infamous MAGA Figures Rush Into Purged Pentagon
What's it all about? There is concern the goal is to get access to classified info on Russia to allow Trump's new minions to create a false narrative to discredit Biden with after the monumental "Obamagate" flop. Something the Grifter-in-Chief has railed against Billy the Bagman for not producing. It may also be that the Golfer-in-Chief is still on a quest to show he was not the beneficiary of Putin's 2016 meddling.
A furious behind-the-scenes battle to counter Trump’s threat to national security
"An intense battle over this issue has raged within the administration in the days before and after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his allies want the information public because they believe it would rebut claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Trump in 2016. That may sound like ancient history, but for Trump it remains ground zero — the moment when his political problems began.
CIA Director Gina Haspel last month argued strongly at a White House meeting against disclosing the information, because she believed that doing so would violate her pledge to protect sources and methods, a senior congressional source said."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...1d31a4-239d-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html
Jeeeeeeeeez, what a mess. It's exactly the kind of shitshow that's become so commonplace it is the norm. I just hope we have not lost our capacity to see how abnormal, and dangerous, these things are.
Moving on.........what about the curious case of Anthony Tata?
Actually, not that curious. At least not for this prez. If any other prez had manipulated the system to allow Tata to reach his current position it would be a huge scandal reverberating around DC for days.
How did Tata get to where he is? Tata endeared himself to President Flim Flam using a tried-and-true method: praising Trump on Faux News and bashing his political opponents.
First, his nomination to the #3 job in the Defense Dept. was blocked by........wait for it......the (R) Sen. Inhofe of OK because of racist, Islamophobic things Tata had said. Inhofe cancelled Tata's confirmation hearing 20 minutes before it began because it was clear he would not be confirmed. So Trump had DoD Sec. Esper (who has been fired) name Tata to a temporary senior position in the Pentagon, sidestepping Congress.
Trump Puts Pentagon in Political Crossfire With Tata Appointment
Now, Tata along with some other hacks have been installed in high level positions in the Pentagon. Among them is Kash Patel. As a senior aide to Devin Nunes, Patel crafted a dubious memo, denounced by the FBI, to discredit the origins of the investigation into the Trump team’s contacts with Russia.
Also, there's Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a former NSC aide to the convicted Mike Flynn. Cohen-Watnick was one of the NSC aides who reportedly helped Nunes invent a scandal over the “unmasking” of Trump officials whose communications were swept up in U.S. surveillance of foreign targets.
Infamous MAGA Figures Rush Into Purged Pentagon
What's it all about? There is concern the goal is to get access to classified info on Russia to allow Trump's new minions to create a false narrative to discredit Biden with after the monumental "Obamagate" flop. Something the Grifter-in-Chief has railed against Billy the Bagman for not producing. It may also be that the Golfer-in-Chief is still on a quest to show he was not the beneficiary of Putin's 2016 meddling.
A furious behind-the-scenes battle to counter Trump’s threat to national security
"An intense battle over this issue has raged within the administration in the days before and after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his allies want the information public because they believe it would rebut claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Trump in 2016. That may sound like ancient history, but for Trump it remains ground zero — the moment when his political problems began.
CIA Director Gina Haspel last month argued strongly at a White House meeting against disclosing the information, because she believed that doing so would violate her pledge to protect sources and methods, a senior congressional source said."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...1d31a4-239d-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html
Jeeeeeeeeez, what a mess. It's exactly the kind of shitshow that's become so commonplace it is the norm. I just hope we have not lost our capacity to see how abnormal, and dangerous, these things are.