Mattis clashing with Trump transition team over Pentagon staffing

[spanone]

The honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump’s transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.

With only two weeks left before Inauguration Day and days before Mattis’s Senate confirmation hearing, most major Pentagon civilian positions remain unfilled. Behind the scenes, Mattis has been rejecting large numbers of candidates offered by the transition team for several top posts, two sources close to the transition said. The dispute over personnel appointments is contributing to a tenser relationship between Mattis and the transition officials, which could set the stage for turf wars between the Pentagon and the White House in the coming Trump administration.

The Trump transition team was already considering candidates for a host of Defense Department top jobs when Trump announced Dec. 1 that he intended to nominate “Mad Dog” Mattis to lead the military. The Mattis pick was seen by Republicans around Washington as an indication that Trump would rely on senior and experienced officials to shape and implement his national security and foreign policies. Many “Never Trump” Republicans also thought this might be their way into service despite having opposed Trump in the GOP primary.

Initially, both Mattis and the Trump team intended to engage in a collaborative process whereby Mattis would be given significant influence and participation in selecting top Pentagon appointees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/06/mattis-clashing-with-trump-transition-team-over-pentagon-staffing/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.062209291ebc

[underpants]

1. Is superclusterf**k a word?

They have absolutely no idea what they are doing.

[spanone]

2. well, he knows more than the generals.....

[underpants]

3. Well, on the bright(er) side...

There is Omarosa

[spanone]

8. 😎🔫

[underpants]

9. LOL

I mentioned her because one of the comments on the article said "Just wait until Omarosa starts creating the 'enemies list'"

[tanyev]

4. How about a yuuuuge clusterf**k, a tremendous clusterf**k?

[madokie]

7. A bigly clusterf**k even

[underpants]

10. It's the best. Believe me.

Trump saaaaaalute

[Grey Lemercier]

6. just add "super"

[hatrack]

14. Ahem! I believe the correct term is "Clusterfuckplex".

[underpants]

16. In Drumpf's case - berclusterf**k?

[Cha]

5. And, there's SuperClusterFuck..

underpants lol

[spanone]

11. and he won't be president for two weeks.....never seen anything like this bozo

[Cha]

12. Just watching Keith Olbermann's latest on him..

"he's not normal"..

[spanone]

13. thanks Cha! great video.

olbermann is right, he is not well.

[bdamomma]

15. please read or bookmark

have you guys seen this thread yet, it is definitely worth a read. This interview is really chilling about trump.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028436917

This is just a excerpt of the interview. Please read this. I am sending this article by mail to my Senator.

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Donald doesn’t know anything. And if you listen carefully to what he says, it becomes apparent. He was asked by a Hugh Hewitt during one of the debates, the right-wing radio talk show host, about the nuclear triad. That’s the capacity of the U.S. to deliver a nuclear bomb from a submarine missile, a land-based missile or an airplane. His answer indicated he had no idea. Well, it turned out Hugh Hewitt had asked the same question months earlier on his radio show, and Trump didn’t learn in between. Trump talks as if the president’s a dictator. When he ran casinos, he didn’t know the games, he didn’t know the odds, he didn’t know how to handle customers. All he knew how to do was take money out of the organization, which weakened it, and that’s why his casinos were among the first to fold.