BREAKING: Rick Perry added to National Security Councils core decision-makers
Source: Statesman
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been added to a core group within the National Security Council in a shakeup of members announced on Wednesday.
Perry, the secretary of energy, was one of several officials added to the principals committee, the primary group of policy-makers for national security.
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trumps chief strategist, was also removed from the committee.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/breaking-rick-perry-added-national-security-council-core-decision-makers/zWCr3g9ZZhCTCn3380KOhI/
Cattledog
(5,917 posts)cstanleytech
(26,310 posts)is to oversee the disposal of radioactive waste which in the wrong hands could be used as a weapon of terror at the very least.
MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)in theory but he likely doesn't know anything about "energy", especially as it relates to foreign policy or national security. His only qualification on that is that he is from Texas.
cstanleytech
(26,310 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)But stupid can't cause as much trouble, I hope.
Iggo
(47,563 posts)cstanleytech
(26,310 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Rick Perry will put his glasses on. His glasses make him smart. You're all-ginned up (no,wait, that would be Steve Bannon) for nothing.
Sheesh.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Iggo
(47,563 posts)enough
(13,262 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)!@#$%
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)Seriously - you just can't make this shit up!
They are historic in their total and complete awfulness and ineptitude!
It would be pants pissing hilarious if it weren't so tragic.
Nitram
(22,845 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)if we vanquish the enemy we need the Sec. of energy at the forefront of the discussion (so we can steal their oil). Right?
underpants
(182,861 posts)There is that.
HAB911
(8,909 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)meet fire.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)metalbot
(1,058 posts)But I'd also argue he was an insane choice to be in charge of our nuclear program
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)a valid choice to be there. Whereas political advisor was always a terrible choice, by nature of the position.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)Please don't do that
calimary
(81,419 posts)Governor Oops is on there now? And here I thought cooler more reasonable heads would prevail now that Steve Bannon got flushed from the NSC.
Thekaspervote
(32,787 posts)In the Russian trump debacle?
1. Last week financials were disclosed From WH worker bees.
2. Bannon has financial ties with Cambridge anayltica (as does Kelly the con)
3. Cambridge analytica known "data miners" has ties with Russia
4. Trump dumps bannon as FBI begins to look at bannon
Anyone? Your thoughts?
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)intellectual equivalence.
The two can get together and be of one mind - literally.
Vinca
(50,300 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)2naSalit
(86,743 posts)a lot smarter than governor oops.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Unreal world we live in now.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)We is the human race.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)how to spell 'National Security Council' first?
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)IdiotsforPalin
(170 posts)part of the Texas Holy Trinity of Stupid, along with Gohmert and Cruz
Initech
(100,097 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)Is there a smartest guy in that room?
I don't think so.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Gothmog
(145,481 posts)rurallib
(62,433 posts)just the degree of stupid is in question.
I would give this one a "super-fucking stupid."
But you know Donnie goes for how a person looks. So the glasses must have persuaded Donny that Ricky is security!
Freethinker65
(10,033 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)is writing a book about all this. The next generations (should they survive) are simply not going to believe we allowed such a group of Keystone Cops to run the show.
BigDemVoter
(4,154 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)He said Texas should succeed from the U.S.. Sounds like a true AmeriKan to me.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Mel Brooks and the surviving Monty Python cast turned it down as too preposterous.
hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)I cannot tell you how frightening this is. Rick Perry is a total idiot, easily manipulated and completely without a soul.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)No one has said what Republican ordered the dossier from the PI Russian expert, people assume Jeb! but it could have been any of the 15? Republicanswho wanted to be president.
SunSeeker
(51,643 posts)The fight in Syria is about the Oil and the pipeline access to the Mediterranean. Perry's role as Energy Secretary is to help drive the front end work Tillerson is doing for Putin.
L-
Voltaire2
(13,109 posts)It is all of the clowns. They are, almost without exception, vile idiots.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,310 posts)doing a "shake up" every couple months to allow his cabal to see classified info on themselves and then rotate them out for a new group from the cabal until they have all been briefed.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)he is a dumbass
moonscape
(4,673 posts)JCMach1
(27,566 posts)seriously!
Getting critical security advice from a boob doesn't really make anyone feel more secure.
On the other hand, Mr. Oops is responsible for our nuclear reactors, so maybe there's some sense in his presence.
Has any other energy dept secretary been seated at the NSC before, I wonder?