Discussion: Reports: Zinke Violated Travel Policy, Interior Dept. Inspector General Finds

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This is crazier by the minute.

Reading between the lines, Zinke and Carson were trying to protect Zinke from a report they knew was coming.

The PRESIDENT has the ability under the Vacancy Act to fill in an empty job with another official (and the IG was only ā€œactingā€ so the job is vacant in a formal sense) who has been confirmed by Congress, but Zinke and Carson donā€™t have that power.

Obviously the two crooks got together and decided to hatch a scheme to put someone friendly into the position. But Carson is too big of a fool to actually execute even his small part of the conspiracy, and let the cat out of the bag before they got White House sign offā€¦ The blowback started immediately and someone in the White House realized what a disaster this was either because an IG report was comming out, or the IG decided to rush the only competed part of their investigation to try to protect themselves.

This was not a ā€œmistakeā€ or Carson getting out over his skis, it is a cover-up that was stopped midway. This is the type of palace intrigue you would expect from a dying authoritarian regime, not a well functioning democracy.

And P.s. I donā€™t doubt that Zinke and Carson thought they had Trump onboard, and they probably even talked to him about it, but that is meaningless since he has no idea what was going on, and once his staff made clear how this was blowing up, no way they get a sign off from him.

P.s.s. This screams out for oversightā€¦

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Good to know our taxes are going to help a Republican not pay taxes or, wellā€¦ for anything.

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The Post added that, per the IG report, Zinkeā€™s decision to take a security detail on vacation with his family to Turkey cost taxpayers $25,000.

Itā€™s gonna cost a lot more after they open their luggage and find bone saws, etc.

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Thatā€™s exactly what Ben Carson requested! Except, he asked that it be ā€œoverlooked.ā€

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Just another cheap crook in the Trump ā€œAdministration.ā€

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Zinkeā€™s punishment, if there ever is any, will be a slap on the peepee with a bonesaw.

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OH UGH! NO NO NO. Not the ā€˜bonesawā€™ oh I never watched a SAW movie just because off ā€˜thatā€™ image.

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He may enjoy it and come back for more.

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Letā€™s just rename it the Department of the Posterior, because itā€™s obviously being run by a giant assā€¦

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That travel crap is what got him kicked out of the SEALs. Though youā€™ll note he still wears the badge.

What did he do? Simpleā€”he used Navy (taxpayer) travel funds to make multiple trips from Norfolk, VA, to his home in MT, ostensibly to scout out training sites for his squadron. The truth was that he went to work on some family property and, apparently, on one occasion, took two or three other Navy SEALs with him.

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Duane Bobbit didnā€™t come back for more.

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You know, speaking just for myself, that sounds a lot more painful than any punishment I would expect to be meted out to him.

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And his cranium is interior to his posterior.

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I hadnā€™t previously thought of that meaning for bone saw.

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Is that where the expression ā€œhaving shit for brainsā€ comes from?

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Iā€™m glad that in your haste you didnā€™t spell that meated.

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You know me too well! Believe it or not, I actually thought about it (or, at least, putting ā€œmetedā€ in italics).

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