The State Department inspector general found in a report released Tuesday that the department did not “fully assess risks and implement mitigation measures to reduce civilian casualties and legal concerns” when it green-lit arms sales to Middle Eastern countries.
The unredacted report also raises questions about the legitimacy of the rationale for an “emergency.” In fact the existence of an “emergency” was a fiction.
Just fire them all until you get down to some lowlife lowbie who is hungry enough for advancement to do your bidding…
Dang interns. You can never count on them to assess risks of civilian casualties in international arms deals.
That is essentially their HR planning and hiring document.
Officials repeated many times that Pompeo’s actions were in “accordance with the law,” a preemptive spin that Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY) called “directly from the Bill Barr playbook.”
Actually, it’s straight out of the Hermann Goering playbook. Goering’s first line of defense at the Nuremberg trials was that all the atrocities of the Nazi state, death camps, slave labor, Nacht und Nebel disappearances, and the rest of it, were all completely legal under the laws of the Third Reich. The American response was to put the jurists who made and enforced these law on trial for crimes against humanity.
The State Department inspector general found in a report released Tuesday that the department did not “fully assess risks and implement mitigation measures to reduce civilian casualties and legal concerns” when it green-lit arms sales to Middle Eastern countries.
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Well of course. This is trump. Detail is not something to worry about. No are any “extra deaths”
New: Susan Pompeo, already under scrutiny over use of govt. funds, will join @SecPompeo this week on his official trip to Europe.
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) August 10, 2020
While there, she will be staffed by diplomatic personnel, a highly unusual use of staff. @amanda_m_macias has the scoop. https://t.co/iBRM7n1vO9
Shorter POS SoS Fat Mike:
“We sold arms to war criminals and murderers and you bastards caught us doing it.”
So far up Trump’s ass he can taste Pompeo.
Maybe ol’ Susie can keep chubby from gobbling up to many mashed potatoes
Someone quick bring in Johnny boy Yoo to write a new set of laws. Ol’ Yoo hoo will write it up nicely so everyone’s hands are clean as a whistle
Officials repeated many times that Pompeo’s actions were in “accordance with the law,” a preemptive spin that Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY) called “directly from the Bill Barr playbook.”
Pompey is following the letter of the law BUT NOT the spirit of the law at best!
Note that OIC did NOT evaluate Iranian threats cited by Pompeo if it constituted an emergency.
Recall that this hurried arms sales to Saudi Arabia took place after the Khashoggi murder…
This seems to be Trump’s pattern to reward murderers and bounty killers with political favors ie arms sales to SA bypassing Congress and recommending the reinstallation of Russia to G8!
Somebody tell the state department the war always comes home.
The State Department inspector general found in a report released Tuesday that the department did not “fully assess risks and implement mitigation measures to reduce civilian casualties and legal concerns” when it green-lit arms sales to Middle Eastern countries.
And that’s “fully assess” in the sense of give a rat’s ass about.
Scroll down to “Saturday Night Massacre”.
Edit: If you notice this passage in the article, I’d say the ACLU is batting 1000.
Bork was one of only four Supreme Court nominees, along with William Rehnquist, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh ever to be opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Super Christian Doesn’t Care if You Live or Die.
Maybe he’s repaying a debt…
Note to self: must stop fucking them.
Am I incorrect in interpreting the criticism that the state department did not “fully assess risks and implement mitigation measures to reduce civilian casualties and legal concerns” is referencing (and sweeping under the rug) the Khashoggi murder and the legal jeopardy Kushner put everyone in with his probably Turkey-recorded phone calls with MBS?