Are you aware of how many of tRUMP’s administration are conflicts of interest/ incompetent and inexperienced/acting directors VS Senate approved? I am Canadian and I am… and added this post last week. Take a gander… Conflicts of interest are a job requirement in Trump’s White House; a Shameful and long List.
In 2018, there were 1,100 VIP guests at tRUMP’s DC hotel. Only 9 had reached Gold status in the “Trump Card” loyalty program. 1 of the 9 is Trump’s ambassador to the UN. And another is Acting Director of National Intelligence and Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, who took office on February 20, 2020. SOURCE
Germany has already been frustrated that Grenell has been boosting and entertaining far right factions in Germany including a ILLEGAL neo-Nazi movement. ”SOURCE His past comments on immigration and the holocaust, and his bigoted views made headlines in his first month at the post. SOURCE Politicians in Germany called him a “brat” and a “diplomatic failure. SOURCE
Art Finkelstein, the dirty trickster and GOP operative who worked in the background to give you many GOP presidents and sling lies and dirt along the way, was his MENTOR. As a Canadian, I am seething, because old fart Art was also the reason Canada had Harper as PM for so many years, and kept him in power by LYING to the public with disinformation campaigns and attack ads. SOURCE
Richard Grenell remains ambassador to Germany while serving as acting DNI. If that were not enough, he’s also Trump’s special envoy to Kosovo and Serbia. It seems he has remain both to be able to be”approved” for another position. It is an ACTING position with DNI, as any full time Director position must have approval of the Senate and it is highly unlikely he would achieve it, given his actions and controversies thus far and especially as an Ambassador. SOURCE
Because he is already an ambassador… he does not have to be vetted and approved by the Senate. (Grenell senate approval as ambassador was tumultuous, as of course the Dems reminded them of his undiplomatic musings that were PUBLIC knowledge…)
Being in charge of 17 divisions of US Intelligence is a full time job for someone competent and experienced. This is insanity. It is a nightmare. It is a blow to the Intelligence community and a slap in the face for Germany…
A story was written Feb 20th, however, this is sourced and includes more information, albeit far less words. I feel this information is worthwhile as a story of relevancy to Democrats.
It has begun … “Richard Grenell Begins Overhauling Intelligence Office, Prompting Fears of Partisanship.”
Kashyap Patel has been chosen to “assist” Grenell in undermining the Intelligence Community… Read more below…
tRUMP is centralizing his power and free of investigations and DOJ and intelligence services working for him, not the public and the rule of law… He is now ousting anyone who had anything to do with the Russian or Ukraine investigation.
Meanwhile, Nunes lackey Kashyap Patel who was implicated in the investigation of tRUMP’s Ukraine fiasco, and “who helmed efforts to push back against the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation, has just started working in the ODNI ...”
The OFFICE of the DIRECTOR of NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (ODNI) major mission areas: Counterterrorism, cybersecurity, countersproliferation and counterintelligence.
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John Rood, who unblocked the delivery of aid to Ukraine was fired, Feb 19, 2020
Acting DNI Maguire upset tRUMP by warning COngress of Russian interference plans in 2020 election favouring tRUMP ousted, Feb 20, 2020
ODNI General Counsel Jason Klitenic Feb 20, 2020
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Andrew Hallman departs Feb 21, 2020
“With Joseph Maguire's ouster as acting DNI, by the end of today, almost all of the senior US government roles created after 9/11 literally aimed at preventing the next 9/11 will be either vacant or lack permanent appointees.”
Kashyap Patel, former Nunes aide who wrote the Nunes memo, a senior National Security Council staffer with no official role on Ukraine policy, had a direct pipeline to the president “House impeachment investigators are looking at whether a former top NUNES aide -- now a Trump national security official -- was sending Trump unverified Ukraine-related info.”
tRUMP thought he was in charge of all things Ukraine, so in effect, he was… tRUMP called Patel his National Security Ukraine Director when he is a senior National Security Council staffer with no official role on Ukraine policy. Ms Hill thought that was highly suspicious as she has the actual National Security Ukraine Director on staff…
White House Aides Feared That Trump Had Another Ukraine Back Channel. “Senior national security officials grew concerned about Kash Patel, a colleague who had been involved in Republicans’ efforts to undermine the Russia investigation.”
And this reminder, “traveled to London in 2017—without the knowledge of the U.S. embassy, the British government, or Adam Schiff, then the committee’s ranking member—in search of Christopher Steele, whose lawyer denied Patel access to his client.”
Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels