The only sweeping Kelly can do is under the rug.
Sweeping change is definitely coming, though …
Realizing the cows and horses had escaped, and all the hay, oats, tractors and other essential farm implements had been stolen, the General made his bold move and ordered the barn swept out and the doors closed.
Ever the strategic thinker and master tactician, Kelly assessed his losses and victoriously announced, “Thankfully the chickens are coming home to roost.”
Under the new rule they won’t hire anyone who beats his wife with a stick thicker than his thumb.
Alternate headline:
Kelly issues CYA memo on WH Security Procedure
Johnny boy, the reason you have hundreds of outstanding clearances is because your people have multiple red flags, something not seen in any other administration, past or future. And because you and McGahn are total f’ups. Now finish your pint and just sit there quietly.
MAGA: its someone else’s fault. Always.
I guess he’s trying to save his job. The question I have is why would he
Because he’ll be shamed, shunned and never work again?
“Everything Trump Touches Dies.” — Rick Wilson
Kelly issued a five-page memo that acknowledged White House mistakes but also put the onus on the FBI and the Justice Department to provide more timely updates on background investigations, asking that any significant derogatory information about staff members be quickly flagged to the White House counsel’s office.
Uhhh…this means that there will no longer be anyone working in the White House.
Because the next Democratic President will tarnish his military career by giving him a dishonorable discharge.
More than a year in, while Jared has been reading the PDB every day with a “contingent” status and a truckload of white-out on his FS-86.
That’s bankrupt, Deutsche Bank, VEB, Schwartzman , Leviev, Saudi, Qatari, Chinese financially compromised Kushner who had to amend the form for the 137th time the other day while holding the broadest portfolio in the administration.
So tell me, General Kelly, have you got the guts to toss him out at this time?
This is absurd.
“Now is the time to take a hard look at the way the White House processes clearance requests,” Kelly wrote.
“The days weeks months year of just winging it is over.”
put the onus on the FBI and the Justice Department to provide more timely updates on background investigations, asking that any significant derogatory information about staff members be quickly flagged to the White House counsel’s office.
I wonder how the Obama White House got by without “more timely updates” re “derogatory information.”
“Now is the time to take a hard look at the way the White House processes clearance requests,” Kelly wrote in the memo. “We should — and in the future, must — do better.”
-emphasis added
Note: “Must,” not “Will,” with no consequences listed. In the vein of non-denial denials, this is essentially a non-action action.
MAGA = My Ass Gets Absolved
But, I thought that Chiselin’ Trump’s hair was real!?!?
It’s amazing how there’s no time like now to try to fix a problem like getting security clearances for his worthless charges, but, somehow, the time is never right for address the weekly slaughter of Americans from guns.
Really don’t like these people at all.
“For months, Kelly — with help from Porter — had established a semblance of stability in a White House often rattled by an unpredictable president.”
Er, no. For months Kelly has been unable and/or unwilling to address the massive lack of truth, competency, confidentiality, and morale within the White House. And the president isn’t unpredictable. He’s a bully and a liar, with a significant destructive streak. The White House should damn well be rattled.
“Where’s my fucking Roy Cohn! … Hope, I need another Attends®.”
More to the point, Kelly is merely continuing Mango Mussed Hair’s rapidly devolving campaign of incompetently attempting, repeatedly, to deflect responsibility while simultaneously maligning the very people who can do him the most harm.
Thankfully, neither the FBI and 16 other intelligence agencies nor the Judicial and Legislative branches of government don’t mind the slights. Heck, they’re used to being belittled and maligned by the impotent and sub-literate. And they all have short memories!
It’s all there in a favorite book Cadet Cockholster never read, How to Win Friends and Influence People Strategery for Dummies.