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In the last 24 hours, the Secretary of Defense (SecDef), the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD-P), and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intell (OUSD-I) have been sacked. Trump loyalist now sit in the 1, 3, and 4 slots at DOD. Kash Patel is DOD Chief of Staff. Why?
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angrychair
Nov 2020
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Perhaps he fired them for the same reasons he fired you and your brother, Col. Vindman:
GoCubsGo
Nov 2020
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GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)1. Perhaps he fired them for the same reasons he fired you and your brother, Col. Vindman:
Petty vindictiveness and spite.
mdelaguna
(471 posts)4. The best reason
Fingers xd!
GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)5. He probably also believes that he will have toadies in place
to cause havoc for Biden, should he fail (which he will). Except that he doesn't seem to understand that Biden can fire these clowns just as easily as he fired their predecessors.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)2. Isn't Patel Nunez's helper? And Nunez blocked the Russian investigation.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)7. And not the only Nunes "helper" just promoted
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Something is up -- Nunes' other goon, Michael Ellis, who also was in the NSC, was made General Counsel of NSA today. It's like Crabbe and Goyle infiltrating the Pentagon and NSA.
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Nunes has been acting like a gd freakshow ever since his Scooby run to the White House in March 2017 and Michael Ellis showed him some intel in the SCIF that had been captured about HIM (Nunes). Since then he has been on a DESPERATE mission to undercut the intelligence community.
Remember that Kash Patel was behind the Nunes Memo and Michael Ellis was responsible for moving the Ukraine call to the codeword server. I smell a coverup, not a coup. Would also explain delay in giving Biden access to nat sec info
That thread continues - and then picks up:
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Aaaaaaand the Pentagon just made Michael Flynn aide Ezra Cohen-Watnick acting undersecretary for intelligence.
mdelaguna
(471 posts)3. Heart in throat now. Nt
What is afoot and how do we get it to stop, now?
BComplex
(8,066 posts)6. I think it's time Nancy and her troops start impeachment proceedings against Barr, and
they need to launch accusations of sedition against trump. They need to stop everything that is going on.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)8. You wouldn't change the thread title, would you?
I think this is getting important. More people will read it with an idea they're packing Defense and Intelligence with shady characters.