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Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller has delayed planned meetings between Defense Department officials and Biden’s transition team. Or has he cancelled them? Biden spox say he has brought “an abrupt halt to the already limited cooperation\u201d and accused the Pentagon of making false statements.
\nPentagon officials pushed back, saying the pause was a rescheduling of meetings due to \u201ccompeting priorities\u201d for officials.
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The meetings planned for Friday were postponed due to “rapidly changing priorities here,” said a defense official.<\/em> The tension between the Trump administration and President-elect Joe Biden’s team spilled out into the open on Friday, as officials traded accusations over the status of a series of Defense Department transition meetings that a Biden spokesperson called “invaluable” for national security.<\/p>\n Biden transition executive director Yohannes Abraham directly contradicted acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s claims that the two teams “mutually agreed” to pause the interviews until after the holiday, after Axios reported that Miller had abruptly ordered a department-wide halt to cooperation with the transition team.<\/p>\n “Let me be clear, there was no mutually agreed upon holiday break,” Abraham said, adding that the team hopes the Pentagon will resume meetings and answering requests for information “immediately.” “That our agency review teams will be able to have access to the sort of information that is invaluable for keeping the homeland safe.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mr. Abraham clearly has never dealt with the government’s civilian bureaucracy before. Federal Holidays are inviolate, and “59 minutes” is just assumed, meetings or not.<\/p>\n Read the entire article here: Politico<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nBy LARA SELIGMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n