And now we have commissars

[kallend 2,175]

www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house-installs-political-aides-at-cabinet-agencies-to-be-trumps-eyes-and-ears/2017/03/19/68419f0e-08da-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.c965cb6b4f86&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Phil1111 1,193]

SAD

"Most members of President Trump’s Cabinet do not yet have leadership teams in place or even nominees for top deputies. But they do have an influential coterie of senior aides installed by the White House who are charged — above all — with monitoring the secretaries’ loyalty, according to eight officials in and outside the administration.

This shadow government of political appointees with the title of senior White House adviser is embedded at every Cabinet agency, with offices in or just outside the secretary’s suite. The White House has installed at least 16 of the advisers at departments including Energy and Health and Human Services and at some smaller agencies such as NASA, according to records first obtained by ProPublica through a Freedom of Information Act request.

These aides report not to the secretary, but to the Office of Cabinet Affairs, which is overseen by Rick Dearborn, a White House deputy chief of staff, according to administration officials. A top Dearborn aide, John Mashburn, leads a weekly conference call with the advisers, who are in constant contact with the White House."
above from the story. IMO this is almost hard to believe.

Then trump wonders why he has loyalty issues beyond his children.


P.S. its helpful if direct quotes are taken from stories and posted directly, because most of the major newspapers limit the number of stories a IP address can access in a month. Most are 5-10 a month and beyond that you have to become a subscriber.

[JerryBaumchen 1,471]

Hi John,

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to be Trump’s eyes and ears

The headline is wrong, they are to be Bannon's eyes & ears.

Bannon knows exactly what he wants to do.

Jerry Baumchen