I’m a bit stunned at the moment by the seemingly endless stream of deeply disturbing stories that are emerging in the news these days — It’s almost impossible to keep up and news which would otherwise draw a lot of attention can easily get overlooked. One of Trump’s nominations today is one such item, I think.
Specifically, Trump nominated Allen Souza, who currently works at the National Security Council, to be the new Inspector General for the Intelligence Community.
Trump had fired the last Inspector General, Michael Atkinson, suddenly in April. Atkinson was the first of 5 IGs that Trump fired over the course of 6 weeks in one of his most brazen assaults on government oversight. Atkinson had played a critical role in getting the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s famous call with Ukrainian President Zelensky to the congressional intelligence committees last fall. Those events, of course, eventually led to Trump’s impeachment.
Souza previously served as the Minority Staff Director for incompetent Russian stooge, and cow lover, Devin Nunes (R-CA) when Nunes was ranking member of the House Intelligence Community. Prior to that, he had worked as an attorney for the Committee, when Nunes was leading its farcical investigation of Trump and Russia which, of course, found no evidence of collusion.
So now, pending Senate confirmation, we face the prospect of a craven Trump enabler, likely Russian stooge and Putin apologist, and possible traitor serving in the position which is responsible for providing oversight of the Intelligence community.