Ms. Shaw spent nearly a decade practicing in the white collar crimes
FIFY
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Looks like the GOP bought him off.
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If they exist in any meaningful form. If real oversight and investigation takes hold again, how many will find ways to bury themselves?
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Good question. Iâm a proponent of trying to educate them and setting a good example, because thereâs really no other practical choice. A president who uses the bully pulpit for good, for explaining right from wrong wouldnât hurt in this regard.
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and @PrimeTime
Another example of the effect of market forces on corporate responsibility re: environmental and safety regulations. I guess we should just let them police themselves, who needs OSHA or EPA or all of that other nanny-state intrusiveness?
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LOCK his POMPOUS ass UP!
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This was well written.
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Well, Trumpty-Dumpty is an idiot, and it was a huge explosion. I suspect he thought a terrorist attack was the only possibility. (When we saw the explosion on last nightâs news, I said to Mrs Strad, "Holy sh**. That was ammonium nitrate in ton amounts. For comparisonâs sake, McVey took down the Murrah Building in OKC with a few hundred pounds of NH4NO3.) Once I saw the size of the explosion, I was fairly sure terrorists had nothing to do with it. Why would they target the cityâs harbor district? Of course, Trumpty-Dumpty donât need no estinking experts.
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Question: Who has been assigned to turn off the lights when everyone is gone from the administration?
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To be fair, three months is not bad for an Inspector General in the Trump administration.
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Per Wikipedia, it was a ~5000 lb ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel oil) mix, so the total ammonium nitrate load was less than 2 tons. The fuel oil acts as a binder (like mayonnaise in a tuna salad) in the mix, it doesnât combust much in the explosion.
I referred earlier to a few hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate. I guess 20 is a big few.
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Good on you, birdford. Iâm glad you got through to the sober side.
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So use Google. In terms of practical politics we know there are laws requiring them or corrupt Trump would have ended them already.
Pepperdineâs just an ok college, but she took her law at USC. Thatâs a pretty good law school. [Disclosure: My long dead, longer ex-, father in lawâs name is on the law library there.]
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https://www.lawfareblog.com/legal-issues-implicated-trumps-firing-state-department-inspector-general
The State Department inspector general is governed by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as modified by the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 (IGRA). The amended statute states that an inspector general âmay be removed from office by the Presidentâ but requires the president to âcommunicate in writingâ to both houses of Congress âthe reasons for any such removalâ at least 30 days before the removal. The reason that Trump provided for the removal in his letter to Pelosi was that he âno longerâ had the âfullest confidenceâ in Linick. This was the exact reason and language Trump used when he fired Michael Atkinson as inspector general of the intelligence community in April.
It is also the precise reason and language that President Barack Obama used in 2009 when he fired Gerald Walpin as inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), though the Obama White House within a week after the termination provided detailed reasons for the firing
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Nobody - remember when they moved in and couldnât find the light switches? Well most of the folks from then who actually figured it out are long gone and the souless zombies who are left are just shuffling from room to room, looking for some brains to eat as a last meal before being shushed out the doorâŚ
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But thatâs precisely what Obama did, among other things, for 8 years, and yet we got Trump. I think itâs naive bordering on delusional to believe that more than a small percentage of people are amendable to positive persuasion and appealing to the better angels. Many folks on our side like to believe this, as they think it makes them better people, i.e. more forgiving people (btw it does not). But itâs not based on experience or reality. The majority of people either canât be won over, or can only be won over via a combination of other means, such as beating them over the head with a rhetorical stick, enticement, scaring them, or endless repetition. Most people arenât good, rational, smart and mature enough to be responsive to gentle persuasion. Or else Dems would have won every election since 1932.
I say win over those who have be won over gently and rationally, and the rest, either use other, cruder but effective means, or marginalize them if theyâre incorrigible. We have to chose between being liked and getting things done. I choose the latter. Being liked is nice but vastly overrated.
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Putin, Assad, Bibi, Erdogan, Trump, Iran, Chinaâthereâs no lack of horrible world leaders whoâd murder vast numbers of people, or allow such numbers to die, to further their ends. If this re-destabilizes a fragile society, itâs going to benefit some outside actor. Not saying that this is what happened. But if it was known for so long that this was a literal powder keg, why didnât someone step in and do something about it by now, even if it called for de facto force majeure?
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That was my first take. But he did not go public, and it is the trump administration.
My guess, he knows how corrupt Pompeo is. He knows he will be investigated, Likely charged In the next administration, and being connected to him was not helpful for his future career prospects, and if he gets pulled into congressional/criminal investigations, he has to hire a lawyer, etc.
Anyone with any intelligence would stay as far away from this as possible.
This looks like a âtrump is losing, gotta protect myselfâ moveâŚ
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