Trump Taps Retired Navy Admiral As New DNI

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If Burr really is upset, he has a lot of power to get his way. IF

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He is currently in a Senate confirmed position in the DNI’s office.

Not sure if he is a compromised tool like Ratcliffe, or if he is just ‘next man up’ cause Trumpie had some grievance with Gordon.

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I don’t know anything about Maguire, except that the Admiral must be either a pedophile, sex-trafficker, or rock stupid. Perhaps all 3. But no honorable man is nominated by this administration.

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he is seen as at least a more reasonable choice than Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX)

WARNING — EXTREMELY LOW BAR

A chocolate Labrador would be seen as a more reasonable choice than Rep. John Ratcliff (R-TX).

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“Honorable” is used to address those in presidentially nominated and Senate confirmed positions, which he currently is.

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All your questions about how to use “the Honorable” are answered here:

http://www.formsofaddress.info/Honorable.html

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Nah. I like good story more than accurate ancient history. As my daddy use to say, “It tells well.”

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Are you referring to Pence or Putin? Not that either is making plans that are good for the country .

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Something must be off about this guy. Otherwise Trump wouldn’t have picked him. He needs to immediately testify under oath to Congress.

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“The president’s judicial appointments and his overturning of regulations and dismantling of federal agencies are particularly harmful. Those latter tend to remain invisible to most of the American public,*** but it is very likely that a major crisis will eventually reveal the depth of the damage he has done***.”

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/02/16/we-are-in-the-midst-of-an-utterly-failed-presidency/

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That is a really stupid post. I don’t like Trump a nor the way he is hollowing out the intel community top leadership. But to say this about a person you don’t know and have no evidence to support your unfounded claims about him is absurd.

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“I an honored to receive the nomination of an unfit racist,” Mr. Maguire later said, “and I look forward to ending my career with squandered goodwill and in professional tatters.”

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Like Brett Kavanaugh, right? Because everyone else in this administration been a sterling example of integrity, truth, valor and such, right? Crone is merely playing the averages here. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

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MoscowMitch isn’t doing anything to stop it.

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It’s a real shame that the price of feeding Trump’s ego is that we have to throw away a 30-year career and hard-won respect. I guess her career got in the way of the President’s plans.

Republican misrule at it’s finest. This, by the way, is what all those mouth-breathing Ayn Rand adherents think of when they imagine the evils of non-libertarianism: that an exceptional person with qualifications will be swept aside by the petty whims of a “taker.”

The irony would be delicious if I didn’t have to share a planet with these vapid fuckwits.

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No. There were credible allegations against Kavanaugh.

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Who on tRump’s team thought to go full speed ahead with “acting” positions? It wasn’t the stable genius as he still shows he has no clue how government should work. A behind the scenes evil genius??

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I thought DNI couldn’t be an “Acting” position?

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Al Gore lived in Carthage.

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And plagiarized their Love Story.

Or Love Canal.

Or something.

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