A few pages back, posted that Veterans Administration has fired over 500 people since January.

Was wondering how they pulled that off.

Part of the answer:

http://hotair.com/archives/201...ually-firing-people/

Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) chairwoman Susan Tsui Grundmann abruptly resigned in January, months ahead of the scheduled end of her tenure

The board is currently down to a single member, Vice Chairman Mark A. Robbins, so they don’t even have the required quorum to make any decisions.

President Trump hasn't nominated any replacements.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
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Originally posted by SapperSteel:
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Originally posted by bigdeal:
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Powell's attorney Ashley Jones told the court her client, who spent nine years in the Army,
Who cares. . .


Only those who are completely unfamiliar with the facts of military life would fall for Jones' nonsense regarding his service record. Those who have served know about the golden handcuffs and understand that not many people make the decision to quit when they are only ten years away from retirement unless there is something pushing them out. Those who know this immediately see the dirt ball's nine-year service as a RED FLAG, understand that he is likely a miscreant, see Ashley Jones' subterfuge for exactly what it is.

Thanks,

Sap"

Notice she said nothing about what he accomplished in 9 years. No awards or deployments, etc. at 9 years, he'd have been a mid rank NCO and competing for E7/E8. If commissioned he'd be looking promotion of Major. Both are important career steps. You really don't get up one morning and quiet. At the very least he could have gone into the reserves.

I just return from a week in Northern Michigan virtually cut off from the modern world for 7 days...

... and I return to holy crap!

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Originally posted by Icabod:
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Originally posted by bigdeal:
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Originally posted by SapperSteel:
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Originally posted by bigdeal:
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Powell's attorney Ashley Jones told the court her client, who spent nine years in the Army,
Who cares. . .


Only those who are completely unfamiliar with the facts of military life would fall for Jones' nonsense regarding his service record. Those who have served know about the golden handcuffs and understand that not many people make the decision to quit when they are only ten years away from retirement unless there is something pushing them out. Those who know this immediately see the dirt ball's nine-year service as a RED FLAG, understand that he is likely a miscreant, see Ashley Jones' subterfuge for exactly what it is.

Thanks,

Sap"

Notice she said nothing about what he accomplished in 9 years. No awards or deployments, etc. at 9 years, he'd have been a mid rank NCO and competing for E7/E8. If commissioned he'd be looking promotion of Major. Both are important career steps. You really don't get up one morning and quiet. At the very least he could have gone into the reserves.

Those details may well have been in presentencing reports. It may be merely a reference to invoke an inference, if not a presumption, that serving in the military is an indicia of responsibility, good citizenship, etc. in the absence of being court martialed and dismissed in disgrace.

You have to say something, hopefully more than "Well, your honor, his brother is worse!"

Speaking of fake news...

Inside Edition just aired a story about how President Trump's Taj Mahal casio was bankrupt and selling everything from paintings to furniture to casio tables to lights and irons. They went on to say how back during the opening Trump was already calling the media dishonest and showed a clip of him saying so. Then they casually mentioned that he sold his interest in the casino in 2009, and it changed hands again before it went bankrupt.

So, thanks for airing a story about President Trump's casino going under when he hasn't owned or had any interest in it for 8 years, then complain that he said the media lies, when you prove it with the same report.

More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.

This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.

Comey testified last month he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a Columbia University lawyer friend. He asked that lawyer to leak information from one memo to the news media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired as FBI director.


“So you didn’t consider your memo or your sense of that conversation to be a government document?,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) asked Comey on June 8. “You considered it to be, somehow, your own personal document that you could share to the media as you wanted through a friend?”
“Correct,” Comey answered. “I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president. As a private citizen, I thought it important to get it out.”

Comey insisted in his testimony he believed his personal memos were unclassified, though he hinted one or two documents he created might have been contained classified information.

“I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership,” he testified about the one memo he later leaked about former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

He added, “My view was that the content of those unclassified, memorialization of those conversations was my recollection recorded.”

But when the seven memos Comey wrote regarding his nine conversations with Trump about Russia earlier this year were shown to Congress in recent days, the FBI claimed all were, in fact, deemed to be government documents.

While the Comey memos have been previously reported, this is the first time there has been a number connected to the amount of the memos the ex-FBI chief wrote.

Four of the memos had markings making clear they contained information classified at the “secret” or “confidential” level, according to officials directly familiar with the matter.

A spokesman for the FBI on Sunday declined to comment.

FBI policy forbids any agent from releasing classified information or any information from ongoing investigations or sensitive operations without prior written permission, and mandates that all records created during official duties are considered to be government property.

“Unauthorized disclosure, misuse, or negligent handling of information contained in the files, electronic or paper, of the FBI or which I may acquire as an employee of the FBI could impair national security, place human life in jeopardy, result in the denial of due process, prevent the FBI from effectively discharging its responsibilities, or violate federal law,” states the agreement all FBI agents sign.

It adds that “all information acquired by me in connection with my official duties with the FBI and all official material to which I have access remain the property of the United States of America” and that an agent “will not reveal, by any means, any information or material from or related to FBI files or any other information acquired by virtue of my official employment to any unauthorized recipient without prior official written authorization by the FBI.”

Comey indicated in his testimony the memos were in his possession when he left the bureau, leaving him in a position to leak one of them through his lawyer friend to the media. But he testified that he has since turned them over to Robert Mueller, a former FBI chief and now spearheading the investigation about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It is not clear whether Comey as director signed the same agreement as his agents, but the contract is considered the official policy of the bureau. It was also unclear when the documents were shown to Congress whether the information deemed "secret" or "confidential" was classified at the time Comey wrote the memos or determined so afterwards, the sources said.

Congressional investigators had already begun examining whether Comey’s creation, storage and sharing of the memos violated FBI rules, but the revelation that four of the seven memos included some sort of classified information opens a new door of inquiry into whether classified information was mishandled, improperly stored or improperly shared.

Ironically, that was the same issue the FBI investigated in 2015-16 under Comey about Clinton’s private email server, where as secretary of State she and top aides moved classified information through insecure channels.

Comey ultimately concluded in July 2016 that Clinton’s email practices were reckless, but that he could not recommend prosecution because FBI agents had failed to find enough evidence that she intended to violate felony statutes prohibiting the transmission of classified information through insecure practices.

“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of the classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," he said in a decision panned by Republicans and embraced by Democrats.

Now,congressional investigators are likely to turn their attention to the same issues to determine if Comey mishandled any classified information in his personal memos.

In order to make an assessment, congressional investigators will have to tackle key questions, such as:

Where and how were the memos were created, such as whether they were written on an insecure computer or notepad.
Where and how the memos were stored, such as inside his home, his briefcase or an insecure laptop.
Were any memos shown to private individuals without a security clearance and did those memos contain any classified information
When was it determined by the government that the memos contained classified information, before Comey took them and shared one or after.
One avenue for answering those questions is for a panel like Senate Intelligence, House Intelligence or Senate Judiciary to refer the matter to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, the inspector general, or to the Director of National Intelligence and its inspector general, aides said.

Link

It is easy to forget that Trump has been involved with the media for most of his life. Look at his problems with CNN back almost 30 years ago, the man didn't take shit back then


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXqA1UUcxo

oh now they've done it

they've pissed off David Letterman...he calling for everyone to find a way to remove Trump from Office...

damn - there goes the neighborhood

If President Trump has managed to piss off Letterman (the singularly most UNfunny person on the planet) then he gets my vote....

oh wait...he already did

Letterman will die a lonely, frightened and bitter man.

And he did it to himself.

You are what you eat.

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Bob Dole says Bob Dole is pleased with President Trump's progress.

I cackled.

Surprised and pleased with ole Bob though.

GO TRUMP!

I sure am enjoying the media frenzy over Don Jr. meeting with this Russian nobody.

I know there was Healthcare thread but my searches came up empty.
Just wanted to say that seeing Rand Paul's position makes the most sense and I don't understand why the GOP can't agree except that they are stuck in the "swamp".
I was never a RP support but he is right on the money on this one.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
I know there was Healthcare thread but my searches came up empty.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/9000026024

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Originally posted by smschulz:
I know there was Healthcare thread but my searches came up empty.
Just wanted to say that seeing Rand Paul's position makes the most sense and I don't understand why the GOP can't agree except that they are stuck in the "swamp".
I was never a RP support but he is right on the money on this one.

Yes, sir. I agree.
There's a video clip of an interview with RP on page 32 of that thread.
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...35/m/9000026024/p/32

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Originally posted by smschulz:
I know there was Healthcare thread but my searches came up empty.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/9000026024

Thank You

It's quite amazing, and probably diagnosable. The left has a death grip on this Russia obsession. They really cannot let it go. It's going down the toilet, they are going down the toilet with a white-knuckle grip on it, like some Edgar Allen Poe character, a sick fuck right to the bitter, twisted end.

It's wonderful to behold.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo...-didn-t-have-n781631

Listening to the hysterical media and God Damned Commie elected officials babble on about this Don, Jr. meeting, I'm beginning to wonder if this might not be a fake news set up of the NYT by the Trumpies.

I'm kind glad the dolts found a new aspect of this to latch onto.