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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ousted hundreds of members from the Pentagon's advisory committees, removing last-minute appointees by the Trump administration, the Department of Defense (DOD) revealed Tuesday.
Austin fired all members serving on DOD advisory boards and also ordered the immediate suspension of all advisory committee operations until the review is completed, effective Feb. 16. The boards are on hold while the Pentagon completes a zero-based review of at least 42 defense advisory committees, according to a Jan. 30 memo.
Shortly after the November election, the Trump administration removed longstanding experts on several such Pentagon panels, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright from the Defense Policy Board. In their place, the previous administration named Trump loyalists.
The Trump administration also named former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie to the Defense Business Board after nine board members were fired.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/537008-defense-secretary-removes-hundreds-of-advisory-board-members-in-sweeping
Budi
(15,325 posts)Go on, Get Outta Here!
Trump vermin
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)They seem more like a place for ex-officials to land so they still feel important.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)The letter terminated Jason's contract with DOD's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USDR&E) in Arlington, Virginia, which was Jason's contractual homethe conduit through which it was paid for all of its government work. So, in effect, the letter killed off all of Jason's work for defense and nondefense agencies alike.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/jason-secretive-group-cold-war-science-advisers-fighting-survive-21st-century
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Trump removed Madeleine Albright from the DPB? (I recall he removed Kissinger).
Clean house! Are these the people we were told would be almost impossible to remove?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)Foreign Policy reported that the others ousted from the board include former Bush deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch II, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, former ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Jane Harman, former Bush Treasury undersecretary David McCormick, former Clinton deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick, former nuclear negotiator Robert Joseph, and former top defense official Franklin Miller.
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/the-trump-administration-quietly-pushed-out-nearly-a-dozen-prominent-defense-advisors-after-its-pentagon-leadership-purge/articleshow/79455773.cms
lamp_shade
(14,796 posts)ffr
(22,649 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)"If I appoint them he can't fire them!"
Oh really?
Just watch Donny Dumbfuck.