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The top Democrats on the Senate intelligence and armed services committees are trying to stop one of President Trumps White House attorneys from taking over as the senior lawyer for the National Security Agency, the Daily Beast has learned.
Early last week, Michael Ellis was tapped as the surveillance giants top lawyer, reportedly an act of the White House in its final days. That rang alarm bells amongst Democrats and within certain intelligence circles. Not only was Ellis supposedly one of the Trump aides who helped Rep. Devin Nunes manufacture a surveillance unmasking scandal, he was implicated in moving to a classified server the record of Trump now-infamous phone call with Ukranian President Volodomyr Zelenskythe one that helped get Trump impeached.
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The NSA general counsel is a position with civil service protections. In other words, a Biden administration cannot fire Ellis absent specific misconduct. Thats prompted concern, former officials say, that part of the final acts of the Trump administration is to embed loyalists within the bureaucracy, making real their accusations of a Deep State that overrides presidential authority.
Trump is burning the whole house down. Hes burning it down and trying to take everything with him.
former senior national security official
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fight-is-on-to-stop-trump-loyalist-from-burrowing-into-nsa
DBoon
(22,366 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)the FBI actually opens counterintelligence and counterespionage cases on Trump's plants, yes, even in other intel agencies.
His supervisors need to hawk him. If he so much as farts when unauthorized, he needs to be shitcanned.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)Maybe Biden can hire an NSA security specialist whose job it is to watch Ellis's every move.
Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)The fact I'm even asking that worries me, because any other time... but the age of Trump, how to combat the salted earth?
Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)However, reply #3 has what I think is a good and workable idea.
nykym
(3,063 posts)that allows the firing of civil servants?
https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/10/stunning-executive-order-would-politicize-civil-service/169479/
Could this be used to rid us of unwanted vermin?
Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)Sounds like we need to fire him first, THEN rescind the EO.
nykym
(3,063 posts)thought for all those who tRUMP appointed.
Get them out and than rescind the EO.
Use tRUMPS own fucked up rules to rid us of his minions in the admin.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)there is nothing to stop President Biden from moving him to a similar grade to some job in Antarctica, or Port "Who-Needs-Me, CA.
I happen to know there is an SES Equivalent position in Sub-saharan Africa.
Relax. Just about everything Donnie Dipshit does can be undone.