Is Ignorance or Immorality a requirement for employment by Trump?

[Somerville]

Hogan Gidley (principal deputy press secretary to Trump) tweeted on Friday, Jan 10 using what has become the standard response of Whatabout Obama!!

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The tweet drew responses fairly quickly from across the political spectrum

Politico reporter Andrew Desiderio, responding to Gidley, tweeted that Gadaffi, the late Libyan dictator, “was not killed by the United States”

Washington Post’s Shane Harris tweeted that Obama’s administration “consulted members of Congress in advance of killing bin Laden.” And Gadaffi, Harris pointed out, was “killed by a mob,” not Obama.

Susan Hennessey, executive editor of Benjamin Wittes’ Lawfare website and a legal/national security analyst for CNN, pointed out that the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who U.S. officials said was a member of al Qaeda, was in fact very controversial and generated pushback against Obama even from within his own party.

Republican Mike Rogers said he was talking to the CIA for several months before the operation to kill bin-Laden was launched.


Then there is the problem that Mike Pompeo and others in the administration don't seem to understand the usual definition of "imminent Pompeo says 'we don't know when, we don't know where' Soleimani had planned 'imminent attacks'

 

[bearpoker]

Hogan Gidley (principal deputy press secretary to Trump) tweeted on Friday, Jan 10 using what has become the standard response of Whatabout Obama!!

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The tweet drew responses fairly quickly from across the political spectrum

Politico reporter Andrew Desiderio, responding to Gidley, tweeted that Gadaffi, the late Libyan dictator, “was not killed by the United States”

Washington Post’s Shane Harris tweeted that Obama’s administration “consulted members of Congress in advance of killing bin Laden.” And Gadaffi, Harris pointed out, was “killed by a mob,” not Obama.

Susan Hennessey, executive editor of Benjamin Wittes’ Lawfare website and a legal/national security analyst for CNN, pointed out that the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who U.S. officials said was a member of al Qaeda, was in fact very controversial and generated pushback against Obama even from within his own party.

Republican Mike Rogers said he was talking to the CIA for several months before the operation to kill bin-Laden was launched.


Then there is the problem that Mike Pompeo and others in the administration don't seem to understand the usual definition of "imminent Pompeo says 'we don't know when, we don't know where' Soleimani had planned 'imminent attacks'

I don't think accuracy is valued in Trumps administration. It's is certainly non existent among his followers. They just say what feels good to them.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Hogan Gidley (principal deputy press secretary to Trump) tweeted on Friday, Jan 10 using what has become the standard response of Whatabout Obama!!

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The tweet drew responses fairly quickly from across the political spectrum

Politico reporter Andrew Desiderio, responding to Gidley, tweeted that Gadaffi, the late Libyan dictator, “was not killed by the United States”

Washington Post’s Shane Harris tweeted that Obama’s administration “consulted members of Congress in advance of killing bin Laden.” And Gadaffi, Harris pointed out, was “killed by a mob,” not Obama.

Susan Hennessey, executive editor of Benjamin Wittes’ Lawfare website and a legal/national security analyst for CNN, pointed out that the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who U.S. officials said was a member of al Qaeda, was in fact very controversial and generated pushback against Obama even from within his own party.

Republican Mike Rogers said he was talking to the CIA for several months before the operation to kill bin-Laden was launched.


Then there is the problem that Mike Pompeo and others in the administration don't seem to understand the usual definition of "imminent Pompeo says 'we don't know when, we don't know where' Soleimani had planned 'imminent attacks'

Kind of weird to assess something as "imminent" when you have no idea when and where. So how exactly did they know it was imminent?