WH: Internal Bannon think tank never actually existed

[HAB911]

The White House is downplaying the importance of an internal policy shop that was once believed to be the brainchild and power center of chief strategist Stephen Bannon, saying the Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG) never even existed.

That appears to contradict media reports and the claims of at least one White House staffer who previously said that he was a member of the SIG.

The group — described in scores of media reports as an internal think tank launched by Bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus and senior adviser Jared Kushner — would be irrelevant now even if it had formed, a White House aide said.

Any need there may have been for the internal policy shop, which critics have described as an attempt by Bannon to promote his own agenda, is moot now that President Trump has tapped Kushner to run the Office of American Innovation (OAI), which is charged with government modernization, according to multiple White House officials.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/327296-wh-internal-bannon-think-tank-never-actually-existed




WHUT?!

[underpants]

1. It doesn't exist but if it did it wasn't needed

[Solly Mack]

2. Reshaping the "optics".

It never existed no matter what you think you can prove and even if it did, what would we need it?

If we don't need it, it never existed.

Besides, those who said it existed were using "fake news".

Orwellian.

[underpants]

4. Next we'll hear that these guys are building forts in the woods

one day it's cowboys and Indians, they next they play pirates.

[Solly Mack]

6. That really does describe it.

I guess even Robber Barons need outlets.

[duncang]

3. What the Sig Heil group never existed in dipshit's WH? nt

[NightWatcher]

5. Who is honestly surprised there was/is no thinking getting done in the White House?

*crickets*

Exactly!

[ProudLib72]

7. I say Bah!

The government still stands, and that is a major fail on Bannon's part. Of course they will never admit that that was his goal. What really happened is McMaster got sick and tired of some petty little alcoholic trying constantly to push his agenda.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Those Priebus OTR quotes are a hoot

So hard to tell who's spinning there. Utterly mystifying.

[kysrsoze]

9. Well, that would require thinking, wouldn't it?

[GeorgeGist]

10. Snort ...

Jared.