Between 30 and 40 people in White House without security clearances !

[kentuck]

Handling classified information.

This includes Jared Kushner, who reads the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB).

I suppose this means we will see a flood of resignations in the next couple of weeks? If they haven't gotten a clearance by now, it is unlikely they will get one.

The incompetence is shocking!

The "transition period" before the Inauguration was the time to put all these people in place and have them vetted and ready to go on Day One. Here it is, more than a year later, and hardly any have their security clearances??

It's time to fire every one of them. Clean them out of our White House and start over.

[ladjf]

1. That can't be legal. nt

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4. it is, in comey's infamous words, "extremely careless".

really.

compare this security lapse to hillary missing a &quot c)" marking confidential (the lowest and lamest level of classified information) buried down in an email chain, and perhaps a few other bits of information that weren't marked classified by probably should have been.

out of over 100,000 emails she processed in the course of four years.

that passed through an email server that was never hacked, to anyone's knowledge, though it perhaps could have been because some system administrator didn't keep up with microsoft security patches.


yeah, *that* was "extremely careless" but nothing that donnie is doing is a problem.

no, nothing at all.

[kentuck]

6. It's intolerable behaviour by the Republican Party...

Some, perhaps many, have left this Republican Party. They could honestly say that their Party deserted them. Many of them are very out-spoken with their opposition to Donald Trump.

Trump is running our government like it was one of his off-shore businesses.

The people in the White House consider him the "Boss" and they work for him. Period.

It is no small wonder that our government is in such a state of incompetence, judging from past business practices.

I see no way to end this dilemma unless Democrats and Republicans work together to save our Union?

It is beyond political Parties, in my opinion.

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8. one can hope for a democratic sweep, but i fear that's naive

republicans are not going to go quietly. they already have voter suppression and disenfranchisement and gerrymandering and billionaire bucks. they've added foreign money and computer espionage. they could easily engineer a win when we have 60% of the people on our side.

we need to crush them overwhelmingly just to get a working majority in either house. at this point the politics are terrible for republicans yet they have a reasonable chance to hold on to the house and an even better chance to hold on to the senate.


we're in deep, deep trouble as a nation if they face no real consequence for their actions.

[kentuck]

9. We can only hope that the dark side does not succeed...

May the Force be with you.

[unblock]

10. but if they strike us down, we shall become more powerful than they can possibly imagine

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2. it's not incompetence.

it's contempt for competence.

or rather, it's contempt for traditional competence.

their goal is to be good at other things.
like being white.
and acting white.
and offending non-whites.
and getting contributions from billionaires.
and getting other republicans, particularly those in congress, to line up behind donnie.

that sort of thing.

when you look at it that way, they don't seem quite so incompetent, do they?

[underpants]

3. Remember Pence crowing about their "Beachhead Teams"

He had a press conference I believe before the actual inauguration. They'd used an idea that Romney had going in 2012 to have teams of people ready to move in the first day. They'd be evaluated and if they wanted to stay they could. Others would be replaced. Sounded good. Very quickly it all turned out to be bullshit. They had almost no one in place.

As I saw posted here the other day - Pence is like their pet mushroom, they keep him in the dark and feed him shit.

[kentuck]

5. I cannot understand...

...why we don't do anything about it, except talk about Robert Mueller's investigation, as they continue daily to demolish and destroy our nation?

Someday, someone will ask, "Why didn't you do anything about it ??"

[Vinca]

7. Jared is probably the most likely suspect when it comes to being compromised.

Would he be swayed by financing for his "666" building that's about to go down the tubes? Maybe.