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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:15 PM Feb 2021

Defense secretary removes hundreds of advisory board members in sweeping review

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

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Defense secretary removes hundreds of advisory board members in sweeping review (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 OP
"removing last-minute appointees by the Trump administration, " Budi Feb 2021 #1
Unlikely many, if any, of these advisory boards are needed at all DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #2
They should probably keep the Jasons Klaralven Feb 2021 #8
yep time to check the cupboards and get rid of the Trump rat infestation. Thomas Hurt Feb 2021 #3
Yay! Get all the MAGAts out! Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #4
KABOOM! Mike 03 Feb 2021 #5
It was a huge purge muriel_volestrangler Feb 2021 #7
kick lamp_shade Feb 2021 #6
Keep purging the cult. ffr Feb 2021 #9
Did the trump team really think Biden would just be stuck with these morons forever? SoonerPride Feb 2021 #10

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
2. Unlikely many, if any, of these advisory boards are needed at all
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:26 PM
Feb 2021

They seem more like a place for ex-officials to land so they still feel important.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
8. They should probably keep the Jasons
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:38 AM
Feb 2021
Jason—a secretive group of Cold War science advisers—is fighting to survive in the 21st century

After 59 years of service, Jason, the famed science advisory group, was being fired, and it didn't know why. On 29 March, the exclusive and shadowy group of some 65 scientists received a letter from the Department of Defense (DOD) saying it had just over a month to pack up its files and wind down its affairs. "It was a total shock," said Ellen Williams, Jason's vice chair and a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park. "I had no idea what the heck was going on."

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 home—the 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

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
5. KABOOM!
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:50 PM
Feb 2021

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)
7. It was a huge purge
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 05:38 AM
Feb 2021
The board members who were removed reportedly included former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. (Ret.) Gary Roughead, and former chief operating officer at the Pentagon Rudy De Leon.

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

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
10. Did the trump team really think Biden would just be stuck with these morons forever?
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 12:03 PM
Feb 2021

"If I appoint them he can't fire them!"

Oh really?

Just watch Donny Dumbfuck.

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