Discussion: White House Offers New Spin On Rob Porter's Background Check

[tiowally]

Hamhock, honey, take this one out and see if it holds water.

And while your at it, ask Capt. Smith were he wants the deck chairs.

[michaelryerson]

One would hope a subpoena is being prepared for the logs of the White House Personnel Security Office just to clear up any misunderstandings and while they’re at it they might as well get the Tower Logs from Andrews Air Force base, too.

[katscherger]

Like all Trump scandals, this is now spiraling outwards and beginning to engulf the Mormon church. Latest is that 20 women have now stated the Church encouraged them to stay with their abusers.

Only 20?

I guess the week is young, and the number will grow exponentially.

[slbinva]

And even if you had no intention of being honest, at least they could presumably come up with lies that provide a veneer of plausible deniability, rather than looking like you were caught flat-footed.

They don’t care. They know their base is never going to make them pay for even the most obvious and outrageous lies, or the most outrageous behavior. So why should they bother to try to make it look good?

[unit44]

Exactly right. Wonder what the folks at at the White House Personnel Security Office have to say regarding comms with the White House?

[leftcoaster]

The story broke last Wednesday and after a week it seems to be getting worse. Had Rob Porter been exited last March or July or January, we would not be here. But this is crisis management ala Trump with his trademark chaos lies and loyalty to Trump.

[careysub]

So now “We’re incompetent” is being used as a straight-up White House excuse (not knowing what an office run by the White House knows). At least this claim is very plausible.

Is innocent by reason of incompetence a valid legal defense?

[unit44]

We need a independent special prosecutor to investigate White House security, and who is authorizing all this fraternization with Russian government officials.

[go2goal]

Trump only hires the best liars in the business…and as long as they aren’t Democrats and they aren’t women with a brain and minorities that believe in equality.

Trump is such a good manager at hiring the right people that he has set a new record for the level of turnover in his administration in 12 months…just over 34% turnover rate. If Trump was a running a Casino, he’d be out of business already. Oh wait…Trump did run TWO Casinos right into the ground with complete mismanagement and bad decisions.

Hey America…how’s that winning thing doing for you? You are sliding quickly into banana republic terrirory. What some poorly educated people would call a shit hole country.

[dont]

The career officials are the only competent people in the WH.

[cervantes]

Sanders blamed a middleman: the White House Personnel Security Office.

For hitting Porter’s wives?

(I missed today’s press briefing.)

[pauldownard]

You wake up one morning and realize that 30% of the nation are socio and psychopaths. What’s a guy to do?
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[rickjones]

[quote=“crackerjack, post:3, topic:68532”]
The White House Personnel Security Office, which is staffed by career officials, would have — may have received information, but they had not completed their process and made a recommendation to the White House for adjudication.”
[/quote]If it was career officials and they told the White House anything, does anyone really think the WH would listen, pay attention or act on the information.

[pauldownard]

No, silly, that’s all Hillary’s fault.

[playitagainrowlf]

Ms. Sanders also asserted that 3 equals 5.

Hey! I’ve already done more than enough math here at this site for one day - don’t make me compute again!

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Discussion: CNN: Porter Was In 'Serious' Talks To Be Promoted At WH Before He Resigned

Person with a Math Degree here - the actual formula we're dealing with is: C = limit 1/D (as D approaches infinity) C = Level of Competence D - Amount of Derp Mathematically, it can be shown that the level of Competence in this formula approaches zero, as the level of Derp goes to infinity. An experiment demonstrating the accuracy of this formula is currently being carried out by the National Science Foundation in Washington DC. Scientists are currently debating the wisdom of letting thi…

[coimmigrant]

It’s not like the White House Security Personnel Office is supervised by the…White House or anything.

Vox has a good interview about Trump’s security clearance problem From the interview, “Well, my understanding has always been that the White House security office is run by career staff, not by political appointees, so I would be incredibly troubled if the White House career security staff granted [high-level security clearances to people who can’t pass the requisite background check].”

While that offers some sense of comfort about security clearances the interviewee also said “Basically, this is an area governed by norms as much as anything else, and we might be facing a situation we’ve never faced before.”

[bankerpup]

Maybe we should keep a tally?

I did that with the Comey firing narrative. I got to 12, then realized it didn’t matter. Mueller might find it useful, but it works as a stall tactic. (That spin continued well beyond 12 with the same predictable reactions.)

As long as Trump finds the tactic useful, and he does, he’ll let it continue.

[moreyampersand]

Jabba the Huck strikes again.

[tiowally]

I suspect none of this is escaping the notice of Mueller and his Pros from Dover or the many Oval Trailer admirers who happen to work at any of 17 various intelligence agencies.

[old_curmudgeon]

Yes. I had a cousin who was a world-famous mathematician (apparently–what would I know?). He could do that.