Several members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administration’s parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment.
The directive, which the Pentagon’s White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.
Also booted in today’s sweep of the board, which is effective immediately, were former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and David McCormick, a former Treasury Department undersecretary during the George W. Bush administration. Both had been added to the board by Mattis in 2017. Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration deputy attorney general; Robert Joseph, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator who convinced Libya to give up weapons of mass destruction; former Bush Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch II; and Franklin Miller, a former top defense official, have also been removed.
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Covid proves Kissinger words to be true.
No, they aren't. I, for one, and I know many others that will not willingly give up our freedom to gain supposed security.
Here's something for everyone here ... I read it a few years ago ... brilliant: (be careful ... there's another book with the same title (???) ... you must get the Taylor Caldwell book)
The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny Paperback – April 3, 2018
by Taylor Caldwell (Author)
A revolution is waged against a totalitarian government in this novel of a dystopian near-future America from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
In the heart of Philadelphia, insurgent Andrew Durant has been nursing a festering rage. And he’s not alone. Through underground networks, he’s found himself among a secret thousands, building an army called the Minute Men. They’re readying themselves for war to reclaim what was once America.
Sneak preview: Durant and his Minute Men join the terrible government and deliberately promote very bad policies against the citizenry. They wanted the population to revolt and overthrow the government ... knowing that they would be killed FIRST!!!
In the nation now known as the Democracy, independent thought is a thing of the past. The Constitution is waste paper. A conscienceless president has been appointed by the military—for life. The government has co-opted farmland crops. Citizens are divided between two classes: wealthy corporations and the destitute. Areas of the country devastated by war or natural disaster remain unchecked. On behalf of national security, neighbors are instructed to spy on one another. Exposing those who are undemocratic is law. And all dissenters are eliminated.
Durant, the chosen agent for the poverty-stricken rural Democracy, finds himself increasingly isolated and afraid. Mobilizing revolutionaries has become a dangerous tactic; the Minute Men have their own traitors, infiltrators assigned to undo everything Durant and his men are fighting to conquer. Now, the rebels have only their beliefs left to trust.
The Trump presidency, if told honestly is going to make one hell of a movie!
With Clint Eastwood as Director/Actor!
It won't be honestly if Hollywood is doing it. Did you know Hollywood has created a movie about Comey? I saw the preview and it makes Comey look like a patriot hero. Jeff Daniels stars in it titled The Comey Rule. I think Showtime is doing it as a mini series
Trump is finally cleaning house. There have been too many people who fell down on their peldge of allegiance to Trump, and almost just as many who even turned against Trump once they left his inner circle. Still, our strong leader stays on and battles on like a true American patriot. That is one of the many reasons we the people support Trump no matter what.
YES!
Worthless unless their security clearance if taken away!
Correct ... should do that.
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