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    GPIA7R said:
    Biden claims '10 to 15 percent' of Americans are 'just not very good people'

    And this is where you lay down a spicy meme by saying one word...

    "DESPITE..."

    (Obviously not my opinion, just implying it of Biden for the laughs)
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    We really just don't know who biden was referring to do we?

    10-15% of Americans are bad people... he could have been talking about a certain 13% right?

    I mean, if Trump has said it I SURE people would be making the case that is who he was referring to... so it's only logical to extend that to biden right?
     
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    foszoe said:
    Republicans starting to eat their own.

    https://theweek.com/speedreads/9184...-berating-trump-twitter-over-watchdog-firings
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    jamil said:
    I say, what’s wrong with some accountability?
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    A somewhat different viewpoint than Grassley

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...rosshairs_watching_the_watchdogs__142617.html
    IGs in Trump's Crosshairs: Watching the Watchdogs
    President Trump often refers to government waste as part of the Washington “swamp” he has vowed to drain – but the phrase has also become shorthand for bureaucratic resistance to his agenda and policies. Putting inspectors general, or IGs, under the microscope is the latest push in Trump’s post-impeachment purge of government officials whom the president and his conservative supporters say have worked to undermine his agenda and sabotage political appointees’ efforts to carry it out, several sources familiar with the discussions have told RealClearPolitics.
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    Heightened monitoring of IG investigations and their findings has yet to lead to anyone’s ouster, but key administration officials and Trump allies are urging the president to do some housecleaning and get rid of Obama-era watchdogs sprinkled throughout the administration. Several acting inspectors general appointed during the Obama administration are still operating at key government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Treasury Department.
    “The federal bureaucracy has gone to war with the Trump administration, and their people have targeted and taken out many Trump’s officials,” a former White House official told RCP. “Those who are naturally responsible are the IGs, and they are complicit in their inaction.”
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    One of the driving forces behind the new focus is the Trump camp’s frustration over a long-standing impasse into a whistleblower reprisal case against defense analyst Adam Lovinger, an ousted member of Trump’s National Security Council who has become a cause celebre among some of Trump’s closest allies and advisers. Lovinger, who was removed from Trump’s NSC early in the administration, has spent nearly three years on unpaid administrative leave and the last two waiting for acting Defense Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, who was appointed by Obama, to wrap up the case and issue his final report.


    Lovinger had formally complained about lucrative contracts at the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. He was later suspended from his role at the NSC and stripped of his security clearance for allegations that he brought classified material onto an airplane, a charge his lawyer says was never substantiated. The new scrutiny of Obama-appointed IGs also comes amid developments in another controversial case involving threats to a different Trump appointee’s security clearance.


    The inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development several weeks ago reopened an investigation into the firing of Mark Moyar, a Trump appointee who reported allegations of rampant government waste, fraud and abuse at the agency. The decision to reopen the case came after RCP reported that the USAID inspector general, Anna Calvaresi Barr, whom Obama tapped for the job in 2015, found that Moyar didn’t have whistleblower protections afforded to other security-clearance holders after USAID officials suspended his clearance and threatened to fire him last summer.
    Moyar was eventually allowed to resign, a decision later held against him in due-process denials.
    That IG is expected to finalize its formal report on that reopened probe as early as this week. Moyar’s attorney, Kel McClanahan, told RCP the agency has completed its investigation and he and Moyar are awaiting its response.
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    After objecting to USAID actions against him last year, Moyar sent a letter to Capitol Hill in January lamenting that he left a good job at CSIS to work for the Trump administration, and feels he was railroaded after following administration orders to help “drain the swamp” and expose government waste and abuse. Over the course of several months in late 2018 and early 2019, Moyar reported multiple instances of waste and abuse at USAID’s Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation, or CMC.


    Several current and former USAID employees spoke to RCP on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal. They described CMC as toxic and dysfunctional before Moyar arrived. Many staffers who were part of an internal clique only showed up for a few hours a day, if at all, while others were often on questionable travel. In addition, personnel decisions were regularly made without the usually required higher USAID authorization, the sources said.
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    https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/sarah-gesiriech

    SARAH GESIRIECH


    U.S. GOVERNMENT SPECIAL ADVISOR ON CHILDREN IN ADVERSITY
    Sarah Gesiriech serves as the U.S. Government Special Advisor on Children at the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID). In this role, Ms. Gesiriech will fulfill the legislative mandate set forth in Public Law 109-95: the Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005, which calls for a coordinated, comprehensive, and effective response on the part of the U.S. Government to the world’s most vulnerable children. Sarah has worked in the field of child and family protection for 25 years in both the public and private sectors. Most recently, she served as executive director for the Faith to Action Initiative. Ms. Gesiriech has a long history of government service. She was a member of the White House Domestic Policy Council informing child protection policy and program decisions. As the education adviser to the Office of the First Lady at the U.S. Department of Education, she acted as senior advisor and primary liaison for domestic and international education policy issues and events. She was also director of the Department's International Affairs Office. Prior to that, she served at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, assisting the secretary in policy development for child and family services, youth development, and trafficking in persons. Sarah also worked on Capitol Hill as a senior advisor to U.S. Senator Charles Grassley on child welfare, health care, and foreign affairs.
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    Maybe Grassley only likes IGs who aren't looking at his friends
     
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    actaeon277 said:
    From miniseries Chernoybl

    [video=youtube_share;9Ebah_QdBnI]https://youtu.be/9Ebah_QdBnI[/video]
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    One thing about his "endless circle of accountability" is that it's expensive and generated nothing. Part of the reason the old USSR collapsed.
     
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