Trump expected to tap Kirstjen Nielsen to lead Department of Homeland Security
Source: Washington Post
President Trump is expected to nominate White House aide Kirstjen Nielsen to be homeland security secretary, according to three White House officials familiar with the decision, a job left vacant when John F. Kelly left the department to become White House chief of staff in July.
The announcement could come as soon as Wednesday, although the sources cautioned nothing is set until Trump publicly announces her as the pick.
Nielsen, a cybersecurity expert who served as Kellys chief of staff when he was DHS secretary, accompanied him to the White House as his deputy and quickly emerged as a controversial presence.
Her detractors viewed her as brusque and, at times, unresponsive, as she worked with Kelly to streamline West Wing operations and instill discipline in a White House often void of it. But her allies and fans she said was simply helping to professionalize the West Wing the sort of necessary but thankless task that often leaves some staff members griping.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/11/trump-expected-to-tap-kirstjen-nielsen-to-lead-department-of-homeland-security/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.d6743cf37da2
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)New White House Chief of Staff Has an Enforcer
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/politics/john-kelly-white-house.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen
They describe her with words like forceful, brusque, no-nonsense, enforcer.
Unlike the usual dipshits that shithead appoints, she actually seems well educated, experienced, and qualified to lead DHS. Which means General Kelly is the one behind this decision, not Donny the pendejo.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)"tapping" Vonkers?
DK504
(3,847 posts)If she is a cyber whiz kid will she plug the cyber holes in Korea, Russia, China, etc.? Will she upgrade to Windows 10? Will she be hobbled from doing anything?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)After giving his staffer a golden parachute out of Donny Daycare?