{"id":110175,"date":"2021-02-03T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110175"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:00:46","slug":"there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-deep-state-but-biden-admin-is-purging-trump-loyalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110175","title":{"rendered":"There is no such thing as the “Deep State”, but Biden Admin is purging Trump “loyalists”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New SecDef Lloyd Austin, just over a week into his new job, has ordered hundreds of Trump Administration appointees to Defense Department advisory board members. More “healing” from the O’Biden Admin?<\/p>\n

Such moves aren’t unheard of. New administration takes over and it is considered good form for all political appointees (such as the SecDef, US Attorneys, and so forth) to put in letters of resignation. Many if not most of those are accepted by the new President, but some people are kept on in their old roles (such as the Director of the FBI and other key agency heads).<\/p>\n

I don’t know if these Defense Department advisory committees have a history of similarly asking for mass resignations. Given that they are asking for the leave of people appointed only in the last couple of months (during the lame duck final days of the Trump Admin), it certainly seems like they’re explicitly trying to get rid of anyone affiliated with Trump. Ironic because four years ago the left and the media (I repeat myself) were decrying Trump for unconfirmed, uncorroborated, and likely just made up “loyalty oaths.”<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen who were appointed last-minute under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

During the last two months of his tenure, former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller removed a number of longtime members from several defense policy, health, science and business boards and replaced many with loyalists of former President Donald Trump. More than 30 of those replacements will now be forced to resign, including former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, retired Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am directing the immediate suspension of all advisory committee operations until the review is completed unless otherwise directed by myself or the deputy secretary of defense,\u201d Austin said in a memo released Tuesday. And he ordered all committee members who were appointed by the defense secretary to resign no later than Feb. 16.<\/p>\n

Austin said the review will assess whether each board provides value and make sure its focus aligns with \u201cour most pressing strategic priorities and the National Defense Strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tata, a former Fox News commentator, failed to get through Senate confirmation for the top Pentagon policy job early last year because of offensive remarks he had made, including about Islam. In November, however, Trump appointed him to that same post, just days after firing then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper and putting Miller in the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Time for an editor’s note here. BG Tata did call Obama a “terrorist leader”, which I think we can all agree is over the top and in very poor taste. His “offensive” remark about Islam was that Islam is\u00a0 “the most oppressive violent religion that I know of.\u201d Which is first a personal opinion and second is a factually true statement backed up by decades of evidence of violent oppression.<\/p>\n

The article continues;<\/p>\n

Miller appointed Tata to the Defense Policy Board on Jan. 19, his last full day on the job. Gingrich was appointed to that same board. Lewandowski was appointed to the Defense Business Board.<\/p>\n

A senior defense official said Austin\u2019s decision was driven by the frenetic activity of Miller to remove dozens of board members and replace them in such a short amount of time between Trump\u2019s election loss and the inauguration of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Of the 42 advisory panels listed in Austin\u2019s memo, 31 will have their members removed, six will be part of the review but their members will be retained, and five others have either no members at this time or have concluded their business. Among the 31 are some of the department\u2019s most well known boards, including those with purview over defense policy, science, health, innovation, Arlington National Cemetery and women in the military.<\/p>\n

All together there are more than 600 members on the 42 boards. Defense officials said they don\u2019t know exactly how many are being asked to resign, but it will be hundreds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continues at the source; Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for sending this one in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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