Secretary of State Mike Pompeo kept up his attacks on members of Congress Wednesday after an internal watchdog report found that the State Department didn’t fully consider potential civilian casualties when it used emergency powers to sell arms to Saudi Arabia last year.
Kushner. Some kind of damn drug deal.
Why do Trump and Petty PompousAss always defend themselves by acting like the US government got the $8 billion from the sales and not the arms manufacturers?
And when will haul either of these fat asses up to the Hill and ask then how many civilian dying pushes the deal off the table? Is 100 1000, or 10,000?
And is it irony that we are discussing an arms sales with the potential of thousands of deaths by allowing this action to go forward, and yet we are facing hundred of thousands of deaths of citizens in the homeland because of inaction?
I guess Jared is too young for Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign to have had any effect on his morals.
Morals?
“Further,” she added, the Department “stated its position that the Secretary ‘has the authority to direct the OIG not to disclose privileged information, and the Department may do so without any final assertion of executive privilege.’”
It would be a fine project for an enterprising journalist to catalog every assertion of executive power by this administration and the response, if any, from congressional gop leadership.
I’d like to know what Biden is allowed to get away with when he’s potus.
Should that have morels?
They did not care.
Nothing. The press will soon discover a new-found ethos to uncover all improtiety. Much like that did post-W. For all their gleeful chuckling at Trump’s foolishness they still pretty much toe the GOP party line (with some notable exceptions).
Pompeo Goes On Attack
Live a fat, toothless, gouty badger.
That part of my comment was a joke.
This scandal is mushrooming out of proportion!
I had figured, but the press is sort of my primary issue. Even more so than Trump (who’d have not even been president were it not for the endless gentle coverage on CNN in general and Mornin’ Joe specifically).
Fat Mike lied, people died. I think that about sums it up.
Isn’t there a Saudi embassy he can disappear in? All our troubles would be gone in just a few wet suitcases
All of Trump’s maladministration’s scandals are fungible.
Very well said. The double standard is already happening. Fox reported yesterday on a question Harris answered about her music taste at some vague time in the past and made it into a “lie” about listening to artists who had not yet released songs. This after the thousands of documented lies Trump has told about matters of national significance.
“We did everything by the book. We complied with our interpretation of the law," and the courts cannot review our interpretation because that would be an abuse of the separation of powers.
DUH!!! Of course the executive branch has an interest in keeping their malfeasance against the American electorate confidential.
Doesn’t mean they should be allowed to hide information just because it would be politically embarrassing. Isn’t it against the rules (law?) to abuse the S/TS/TSC classification process when the underlying information is only being classified for political purposes?
Wait. Follow the money. Who made money on these arms sales, here and in the other countries? Where is that money now? Isn’t that what it’s all about?
(cf Military Industrial Complex)