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Old 02-12-2018, 07:55 AM
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his top aides spent more than $90,000 on travel costs in the first few weeks of June 2017, according to a Sunday report that could put pressure on Pruitt just months after another Cabinet head had to resign over private flights.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ep...rticle/2648805
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Old 02-12-2018, 09:10 AM
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Which is scarier — that Trump doesn’t read his daily intel briefing, or that Jared Kushner does?
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Jared Kushner’s inability to get a permanent security clearance, for reasons that are not entirely clear, has become a source of vexation at the White House. But in the meantime, he has a temporary status that allows him to “see materials, including the President’s Daily Brief, that are among the most sensitive in government,” they wrote.
Kushner's only qualification for his advisor job is his wife's last name. and he is under Mueller's investigation, yet he reads information that he is unqualified. Only the worst, the very worst.
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In the case of Kushner, there is a potential security risk but also the more immediate question of how appropriate is it for him to have access to the material under any circumstances. That takes us back to the fact that the 37-year-old real estate scion has no credential to merit holding his current White House job, outside of whom he married.

It is hard to miss the irony of it all: Wasn’t the main driver of the scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s emails the fact that it suggested she was careless in handling the nation’s secrets?
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Old 02-12-2018, 03:23 PM
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Everything is scary about this administration.
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Old 02-14-2018, 11:42 AM
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin’s chief of staff doctored an email and made false statements to create a pretext for taxpayers to cover expenses for the secretary’s wife on a 10-day trip to Europe last summer, the agency’s inspector general has found.

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Old 02-14-2018, 03:05 PM
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It's OK to Beat your Wives and Girlfriend...

... but don't admit to smoking a joint five year ago.

Washington (CNN) - A White House staffer is leaving after he learned that he wouldn't receive a permanent security clearance after he admitted to smoking marijuana, Politico reported on Wednesday.
George David Banks, a National Economic Council staffer, told Politico that the White House counsel's office informed him that his application for a permanent clearance was being denied because he admitted to smoking marijuana in 2013. He offered his resignation shortly thereafter.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/polit...nce/index.html

Meanwhile, Kushner omitted hundreds of foreign contacts in three revised security clearance forms and is hundreds of millions in debt to Deutsche Bank (which was tied to Russian money-laundering) and he still has access to our nation's secrets. WTF?
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin’s chief of staff doctored an email and made false statements to create a pretext for taxpayers to cover expenses for the secretary’s wife on a 10-day trip to Europe last summer, the agency’s inspector general has found.

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Isn't that fraud?
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Isn't that fraud?
In my 38 years of experience traveling extensively for the government all over the world, yes. The conventional wisdom in government is that the only things that will get you fired right away is travel fraud and watching porn on government time. Both are likely encouraged within the Trump administration.
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An Entertaining Read on Trump's Wife-Beater Scandal

Click the link and read the whole thing. It's epic.

Rob Porter “is a man of true integrity and honor,” a “trusted professional” and “friend to many” in the White House who were “proud to serve alongside him,” and enjoys the “full confidence and trust” of the president and Chief of Staff John Kelly. This is why “Porter did the right thing by resigning” and why “General Kelly had no tolerance” for what he was accused of. Porter “was not being honest,” was not being “forthcoming,” leaving his colleagues “very disturbed” and convinced he “had to go.”

White House officials “are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against” Porter, which is why they “hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him.”

Porter “says he’s innocent and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent,” which explains why “it became apparent to us that the allegations were true.”

Porter “is someone of the highest integrity and exemplary character” and is the victim of “a coordinated smear campaign.” As a result, there is “no reason not to believe the women” who accused him, and his “resignation was appropriate.”


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^^^ Thanks, Bezos, for rescuing this great paper, and making it available for a mere $3.99/month. Priceless!
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Click the link and read the whole thing. It's epic.

Rob Porter “is a man of true integrity and honor,” a “trusted professional” and “friend to many” in the White House who were “proud to serve alongside him,” and enjoys the “full confidence and trust” of the president and Chief of Staff John Kelly. This is why “Porter did the right thing by resigning” and why “General Kelly had no tolerance” for what he was accused of. Porter “was not being honest,” was not being “forthcoming,” leaving his colleagues “very disturbed” and convinced he “had to go.”

White House officials “are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against” Porter, which is why they “hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him.”

Porter “says he’s innocent and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent,” which explains why “it became apparent to us that the allegations were true.”

Porter “is someone of the highest integrity and exemplary character” and is the victim of “a coordinated smear campaign.” As a result, there is “no reason not to believe the women” who accused him, and his “resignation was appropriate.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...e81_story.html

'My Time as a Covfefe Boy With Hope' by Rob Portman - coming soon to Amazon
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