It appears the swamp is bigger and deeper than it first appears.
https://libertywritersnews.com/2017...gon-unthinkable-general-mattis-trump-furious/
Politics can get dirty, we all know that, but a line is crossed when politics put the lives of our military at stake.
It was recently discovered that Obama’s appointees in the Pentagon are blocking General Mattis from giving our military men and women the help they desperately need to fight in combat and stay alive.
Military readiness is VITAL because declines in our ability to be on guard for an attack signals to the rest of the world that the United States is not prepared to defend itself. Hostile nations will be more likely to lash out against America, inevitably leading us into war.
Chairman of the House committee of Armed services, Mac Thornberry, said that Mattis can’t do this alone and the U.S. has a moral obligation to support the troops.
https://libertywritersnews.com/2017...gon-unthinkable-general-mattis-trump-furious/
Politics can get dirty, we all know that, but a line is crossed when politics put the lives of our military at stake.
It was recently discovered that Obama’s appointees in the Pentagon are blocking General Mattis from giving our military men and women the help they desperately need to fight in combat and stay alive.
“Holdovers from the Obama administration in the Pentagon are hampering efforts to fix the military’s major readiness problem, leaving Secretary of Defense James Mattis alone in his efforts to properly equip U.S. forces, according to the chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services.”
Do these people have no shame? Preventing our Secretary of Defense from rebuilding our Military doesn’t just put our troops in danger, it puts ALL American lives in danger!
Military readiness is VITAL because declines in our ability to be on guard for an attack signals to the rest of the world that the United States is not prepared to defend itself. Hostile nations will be more likely to lash out against America, inevitably leading us into war.
Chairman of the House committee of Armed services, Mac Thornberry, said that Mattis can’t do this alone and the U.S. has a moral obligation to support the troops.
“I think it is wrong, immoral to ask men and women to go carry out a military mission for which they are not fully equipped, and fully trained, and fully supported,” said Thornberry.
And whether that is a counter-terrorism operation or a freedom of navigation operation in the south China sea, or whatever; if you ask somebody to go out there and risk their lives, you darn well better give them the best and fully support them.”
https://sputniknews.com/us/201702181050806803-tillerson-mass-firing-state-department/
Aides to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson purged approximately two dozen State Department staffers on Thursday, in a shakeup that has many officials on edge, fearing that a major restructuring is imminent.
While Tillerson was away on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State attending the G20 in Bonn, Germany, his aides alerted much of the staff working for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices that their services were no longer needed.
Career officials are now extremely worried about their jobs, particularly given how abruptly the firings happened; before assignments had been finished by staffers or any replacements had been hired.
“Inside the State Department, some officials fear that this is a politically-minded purge that cuts out much-needed expertise from the policy-making, rather than simply reorganizing the bureaucracy,” CBS News reported.
The staffers who were let go act as a conduit between the Secretary and county bureaus.
“It is irresponsible to let qualified, nonpartisan, experienced people go before you have any idea of their replacement. You can’t do foreign policy by sitting in the White House, just out of your back pocket,” Tom Countryman, Former Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation, who was let go earlier this month, told CBS.
And whether that is a counter-terrorism operation or a freedom of navigation operation in the south China sea, or whatever; if you ask somebody to go out there and risk their lives, you darn well better give them the best and fully support them.”
https://sputniknews.com/us/201702181050806803-tillerson-mass-firing-state-department/
Aides to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson purged approximately two dozen State Department staffers on Thursday, in a shakeup that has many officials on edge, fearing that a major restructuring is imminent.
While Tillerson was away on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State attending the G20 in Bonn, Germany, his aides alerted much of the staff working for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices that their services were no longer needed.
Career officials are now extremely worried about their jobs, particularly given how abruptly the firings happened; before assignments had been finished by staffers or any replacements had been hired.
“Inside the State Department, some officials fear that this is a politically-minded purge that cuts out much-needed expertise from the policy-making, rather than simply reorganizing the bureaucracy,” CBS News reported.
The staffers who were let go act as a conduit between the Secretary and county bureaus.
“It is irresponsible to let qualified, nonpartisan, experienced people go before you have any idea of their replacement. You can’t do foreign policy by sitting in the White House, just out of your back pocket,” Tom Countryman, Former Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation, who was let go earlier this month, told CBS.
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